My main site URL is netavation.com

 Sites I work on include www.lightyourfire.com, personnelhealth.com
and videogameawards.com
 I've been writing in HTML since 'www' arrived, and have used
ColdFusion since it was in it's first Beta.
 I do all the layouts, graphics, database setups, application design,
hosting and every other part of the sites I work on - other than
content.
 My main site was started (though it's been renamed) in 1997 and used
to be a huge internet magazine - with 'zines' for kids, cars, food,
parenting and just about any other topic you could dream up.
Unfortunately my client list exploded (grew) around seven years ago
and I no longer had time to keep new content in it, so I got a new
domain name for it and here we are.
 My biggest project was an electronic medical records system for
clinics/hospitals, and that has now moved up to writing software for
healthcare clinical trials.
 My biggest client was the 'big MS', for which I wrote the RMA system
for the XBox.

 I recently moved to Virginia from California, and when I'm not
attached at the wrist to a keyboard I'm usually building something
(houses, gazebos, decks, cars, motorcycles, boats) or out for a ride
on my GSXR when it's not freezing.
 I'm a fan of humor (Family Guy and House - two shows I wont miss) and
love movies.  My favorite part of any movie is the directors
commentaries when they come out on DVD.

 I'm pretty 'old school' when it comes to writing code or building
sites.  I still do them all by hand, clear down to the line breaks.  I
can adapt to change, but when that change is (imho) unwarranted or
cumbersome - I'll be sure to complain about it :)

When I am not working on some mind-bending stored procedure that is a
wonder to behold and joy forever.
I like to go fishing and drink icy cold beer or;
Do some light gardening, propagating orchids or;
Spend quality time with my beautiful new Filipina wife or;
Cooking mouth-watering blue marlin cutlets, hacked off with a machete'
by an enthusiastic palenkero in the local market,

Alan ";0)

On Dec 4 2007, 8:05 am, Adam Lasnik wrote:

As a sort of new person to this i am very interested to find out what
tips and tricks people have to good SEO and in particular backlinks.

http://www.whiterosepolo.co.uk/about.html

On Dec 4 2007, 12:05 am, Adam Lasnik wrote:

My name's Andy, and I run a collectors / enthusiasts networking site -
http://www.everyonecollects.com. I've joined Webmaster Help because
sooner or later, everyone reaches the point where they need to ask
someone for a little bit of advice, when they don't know where to turn
next, and this group seems like the perfect place to get a few
pointers.

I've got two dogs - Bob and Milly, both terriers. I work on property
restorations when the web's not stealing all my time, which means my
wife barely gets a look-in some days.

I've lived in Australia for 7 years before returning to the UK.

My biggest interests online concern the old chestnut 'Page Rank' and
the like... but isn't everyone interested in that to some degree?

One thing that i'd be keen to do is exchange links or banners, and I'd
be happy to add either to my site, provided they're appropriate. I
figure exchanging links is a good way to improve a site's profile, and
hopefully it'll be more successful than sending off stacks of requests
and getting no responses.

Take it easy & thanks for reading.

Andy.

My name is Mariya - yet another Googler from the Search Quality Team
happy to join the discussion on webmastering here. My own web
experience goes back to the late 90s when frames and animated gifs
were all the rage and I cut my teeth making fan sites for my favourite
bands on GeoCities. Since then, I've had the opportunity to work on a
number of more serious and complex projects for large corporate
sites.

I am originally from Bulgaria - a land famous for roses, yoghurt,
football (misnamed stateside as soccer (-: ), and recently, sumo
wrestlers. Outside of Google, I enjoy sports, such as Wikipedia
surfing and football watching, and on the more active side, mountain
hiking and volleyball. I have a linguistics background, and grammar
books are right at the top of my reading list with novels and blogs. I
love learning new languages and I speak a few, so you may see me
chatting with webmasters in the German or Russian groups, for
instance.

I am really excited to be part of the group and look forward to
learning a lot and hopefully adding to the helpful voices in an
already lively discussion.

Talk to you soon~
Mariya

On Dec 3 2007, 4:05 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:

I'm a Nottingham,UK based web developer getting into search marketing
(since May '07) and trying to be 'white hat' in everything I do. Love
helping folk out if I can, fussy about clients I take on - I think you
can make money and still have ethics and morals!

All my work is referral & my own site isn't up to much www.steveneale.com
(tut tut!) so I'll promote my main client www.dcmmoney.co.uk who are
one of the good firms that look after people with debts, which is
handy because if I can't make money then I'll be their client!

Anyway - looking to learn a shed load of stuff and contribute where I
can. I've been looking at the group for months but now I actually feel
like I know some stuff I'm more confident about posting and helping
others.

I'm Owen. I am the web master for a large vocational education
organisation in Australia. We use "s" instead of "z" Downunder.
(That's English :-)

I've been working on the web for over 10 years now, computer based
training multimedia products on CD-ROM before that.

I've achieved a BA Contemporary Music, Production Major in 1995. Cert
III in IT 1999, Cert IV IT Website Management 2002 and Cert IV in
Workplace Assessment and Training 2003. About time I got another
qualification don't your think? I'm currently investigating post
graduate options along the user experience, human computer
interaction, user centered design fields.

Current internet website http://www.nci.tafensw.edu.au is pretty big
at 1500 or so pages. It is mostly course information. I've been
training contributors to add content using Adobe Contribute, which
works surprisingly well, and I'm working on rolling out a pure CSS
layout design 2008. I implemented a SEO strategy and training in 2004
which has been very successful. I've also run some Adwords campaigns
with the guys at Google Sydney 2006/2007. We also have a pretty big
Intranet which I've been managing which on top of a busy Internet
presence is a lot for one person in an organisation of 2000 staff and
40,000 students.

My areas of expertise are web design, usability, user experience,
human computer interaction, user centered design, accessibility,
search engine marketing and optimisation, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, XML,
XSLT etc.

I'm very grateful for the excellent FREE products and support Google
has created for us in the Webmaster Tools and Analytics suites, groups
and blogs. Also the fun stuff like maps and earth. Keep it up!

I have to admit, I do suffer from Google envy. Perhaps one day... I'm
updating my CV tonight :-)

Hobbies include drums, guitar, music, home brewing etc

My main site is http://boreal.net/ which I have been running since
1995. Actually from 1995 to 1998 it was hstone.com/wilderness.
I also run a another site http://canadiansurvival.info/ which was
designed a few years ago out of a conversation with a number of
colleges around a camp fire that Survival Instructors (which is my
occupation) in Canada needed a site to link us together and since I
was the only one of the group who was computer literate and had a
website already I was volunteered. I think it might be the only
website designed around a campfire.

As well as running the Boreal Wilderness Institute and being a Company
Sgt-Major in the Canadian Infantry Reserve I also teach basic XHTML
courses part-time at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology).
This got started by complete fluke, one day I was talking to an old
army buddy who was teaching at NAIT and the conversation lead to web
design. We asked me since I teach for a living and understand web
design why don't I teach web design.

I have been programming for over 15 years. I work for a large
corporation designing applications for federal and state governments.
About a couple years ago I had an idea of writing a service that help
reuse building materials thus reducing waste. I sat down for quite a
few weekends and wrote the site : http://americanbuildersurplus.com. I
want people to find it and use it so I had to look into SEO. I share
google ideas about relevance, therefore I am trying to help them on my
part and provide them with pertinent information when it comes to
indexing of my web venture. I hope search engines gurus will point me
to the right direction when I make a mistake and I am willing to share
my SEO observations and experiences. I am working on my business,
people seem to like it, it is growing and I would like to make it
better and be useful. I have to pay my bills too, so if I can earn a
living doing it the better. Other than that I enjoy spending time with
my family, my work and art.

Cheers!

On Dec 3 2007, 7:05 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:

On Dec 25 2007, 1:08 am, bloogog wrote:

I'm a software engineer whose full-time work currently does not
involve web technologies, but in the past I've worked on web services,
Javascript/DHTML, GM addons, standards-compliant websites, portal/
forum implementation/management, all sorts...

At present I do whatever interesting web projects I come across in my
own time, contribute to various open source initiatives and design/
install/host/manage several websites and online communities. My
particular interest is in the security aspects of the online
experience, such as XSS vulnerabilities and statistics manipulation,
and anti-virus/worm/spam efforts. You might guess I'm not a big fan of
the shadier side of SEO.

ObLink: I was drawn eventually to sign up here through my work for
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/ - a site promoting awareness and
discussion of the implications of Peak Oil and the coming energy
decline.

My first name is Lawrence, I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada.  I've
been doing web programing just for fun for quite awhile. I learned how
to program using Basic while I was in elementary school.

My web site is http://www.lawrencestewart.ca.  I just started it in
the last few days.  I will see where it leads.  And I have a few more
projects planned.

When I'm not at my computer I enjoy windsurfing, hockey, working out,
and many other interests.  I'm in school full time in my last year of
Political Studies.

Http://www.LawrenceStewart.ca - A blog about everything, but not just
miscellaneous ramblings.

My name is Scott.

I work at WebPosition.com and WebTrends.com and blog over at
www.marketposition.com
I remember back when Geocities was still a fledgling company, when I
subscribed to .Net magazine, and even further back when my family was
dazzled with our commodore 64/128, lol. Oh lord british, your Ultima
dragged me into computer geekery. (So I might be fairly young by the
standards of some.)

When not on the web, I love going on road trips in the Pacific
Northwest and hiking. What a beautiful area. I play guitar, draw, and
love discovering obscure Sci-Fi books at Powells.

Scott

On Feb 3, 10:12 am, lawrencestewart.ca wrote:

I just started whole-web crawl (10000 Internet Shops in USA, Canada,
UK):
http://www.tokenizer.org

Tokenizer is an extremely fast online shopping search engine powered
by Lucene, with experimental heuristic categorization.

I notice quite a lot of mistakes from SEO viewpoint: for instance,
many of you use dummy href="#" with JavaScript-powered dynamic menu
(so that Object.href / window.location is changed at runtime). Nothing
prevents you form putting correct href="my/page.htm"!
And a lot more. For instance, 30% of webmasters do not have good
understanding of robot exclusion protocol. Sample? WMW (http://
www.webmasterworld.com/) - they are using dynamic robots.txt. Someone
even sent several Emails to my hosting provider asking to ban IP!

I have written the script of GeekMark.com in pure ASP. - www.geekmark.com
In this site you enter your website and it shows your rank info. PR
+alexa ranks+ google+yahoo+msn+gigablast+aol+ask link counts.

On Dec 23 2007, 2:35 pm, EcoSea wrote:

I am in computers since childhood (that was 80's). I work
professionally since late 90's.

In 1995, I met Internet at our University for the first time. It was
an amazing experience to see the world through 64Kbit bandwidth using
Netscape 1.2.

In 1999 I started in a new national daily paper, and my team's task
was to put the content on the Internet starting with issue #1. We
didn't have MS servers for ASP so we end up generating all the pages
in html !! (no time to learn PHP)

Today I work in an IT Company in California, and manage multiple
websites, most of which are database driven e-commerce sites. I am
responsible for their technical performance, but obviously that's not
enough so I hang out in this board to see how can I improve their
financial performance as well. :)

I have Computer Programming (AA) and Computer Science (BS) degrees.
Every time I graduate a school I realize there is still a lot more to
learn in this field.

My top 3 sites (in terms of traffic):
www.printcountry.com (selling printer cartridges, refill kits etc.)
www.testcountry.com (selling home health testing kits such as drug
testing, cholesterol, HIV, etc.)
www.usnavysealstore.com (selling t-shirts, gifts, and other military
memorabilia)

If they sell enough that day, everybody is happy. If not, we know the
market is too competitive that day for a computer geek to handle :)

I am ajay and my friends call me ajju, i am from india and working as
a web designer & SEO also i have experiance of linking including 1way
and reciprocal. my company website is www.hunka.in i like travel &
make new friends.

Thanks,
Ajay
[email address]
www.hunka.in

On Dec 23 2007, 5:35 pm, EcoSea wrote:

How's the weather up there?! Good? Well, I hope its even better than
that and I hope that its a big, bright,  sunny Northern California day
with not even one cloud in the sky for all of you!

Well, its another rainy day for me, myself and I known as "Rob Pongi"
and I am not a Big G person. Actually, I am a small F person
("Failure"') and well that's just the story of my life so, don't worry
about it at all as its actually like a pretty boring daytime game show
or soap opera, with too many commercials and many losers just like
myself!  But that's OK, I'm used to it now and its not a big deal -
and certainly not "Let's Make A Deal" or even "General Hospital" for
that matter....well, at least, not yet, right?

HOLY SHINTO!!!  I'm really sorry folks, but you know the truth is that
I am really happy to be here in the Google groups. This is really a
great thing for sure. But, you know, actually, I get carried away
sometimes and because of that, I have traveled to some of the most
beautiful places all over the world FOR FREE!!!! ;O)

No, seriously, sometimes, I really dream of becoming a Big G person
someday, yeah, maybe someday, someway, somewhere over the rainbow, you
know, where the skys are blue......WOW! If I ONLY HAD A BRAIN!"#%%&!

And, of course you know, the letter "G" is, in fact, the seventh
letter of the alphabet. And the number "7" is a lucky number and it is
also the number of  days in one week. "Seven" is also the title of a
song by David Bowie and, most significantly, the number "7" is A
WINNING NUMBER in places like Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. Well, at
least, that's what I have heard people say. You know, I just can't go
up there and spin 'The Wheel of Fortune' and I am not going to answer
"The $64,000 Question" no, that's not me.

But actually, 'To Tell The Truth' I am a 'Survivor' really, I am, 'You
Bet Your Life' I am. I am for sure! ;O) And, really, I am, indeed,
very happy and very honored to be here, this is really great and the
greatest thing about it is "The Price is Right!"

Yours truly wacky,

Rob Pongi

http://www.robpongi.com

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Happy to have found this community and looking forward to learning.

Best wishes

M

On Feb 6, 9:37 pm, robpongi wrote:

I maintain the following websites

http://diggsamachar.com and

http://votedlinks.com

to help blogwriters get coverage for their blogs. The websites are
getting very popular and helping blog writers get audience.

http://www.4networking.biz
http://www.letranslator.com
http://www.diversehampers.co.uk
http://www.salgadoinvestigations.com
http://www.ukconsultants.biz
http://www.gps-trackers.co.uk
http://www.bulgariasfinest.com

I also run an SEO based forum at http://www.seoa.co.uk

Pete

On Dec 23 2007, 1:35 pm, EcoSea wrote:

On Dec 23 2007, 7:35 pm, EcoSea wrote: