I’ve just taken the plunge and renamed by old golfscoretracker website www.golfshake.com and will now carry out some experiments to see how fast I can get the search engines to pick it up and index it.
Initially golfscoretracker was all about golf score tracking and golf handicaps, the new name hopefully encapsulates the community aspect of the site as well whilst at it’s core will still offer the golf handicap and analysis software. Obviously I now need to focus some time on optimising the site so that it get’s indexed and index relevant to my target audience being avid golfers 
2 days ago I kicked off my first phase of my SEO plan and will keep a diary of what I do over the next few weeks and post back my results. My goals I hope to achieve are :
Depending on the results I’ll write again within the next few weeks about how I get on and what the results are like.
Well today I attened the Internet World show at Earl’s court in London, UK. Was it really the world of the Internet ?
For me it was good and I did get a lot out of it in terms of contacts, ideas and software but I felt like there should have been more. Before the event there was a lot of talk about web2.0 and this being one of the big features of the show. In all honesty, other than a lot of presentations taking about stuff many bloggers and online sites have for the last 12 months, there wasn’t much there to do with web2.0. I was expecting to see more technologies, bespoke software, software development and something cutting edge.
Other than linkedin.com and huddle, who also had a great presentation from the CEO Alastair Mitchell, there was nothing to do with web2.0. I was even asked to complete a survey and asked something along the lines of ‘Do you think web2.0 ….’ 1, is all hype 2, is about new technologies 3, Don’t know . For me I think it’s 1 and 2 but despite a 5 minute conversation and had to settle for no answer.
I suppose the question above is really were it all went wrong for me, I should have read the strapline on the website, ‘Business for the digital age’. This event was more about big corporations finding out about emerging software and selling new software, not a cutting edge internet event with product demos and software launches. I sat down to watch a presentation from channel4 about vodcasting/video streaming online, after 5 mintues I walked out after watching a marketing/selling pitch from channel4.
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May 17, 2007 3:19 pm | 
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