I feel I owe this post to all the people who have been asking where I am , and if you weren’t wondering about me don’t worry I am not hurt but I will share it with you anyway. For anyone that doesn’t know I am originally from the UK and moved to the states in December 2004 to marry the lovely and long suffering Kathy. Since I moved here I have worked online, doing my funky thing and generally it has been great.

Once thing I have noticed while working for myself is that it is quite a lonely life, I don’t have friends, I don’t mix with anyone and that is actually starting to get to me. I did try a couple of networking meetings but all the geek guys just get scared you are after their clients or they spend the time telling you how good they are at asp/php/biteme or whatever the latest thing is.

I also found that I am not really a person, well the banks don’t seem to think I am anyway. I have a green card (citizenship in 2012 and we shall be having a party when it is done, look out for your invite in the post) but as a non citizen and an internet marketer it is like I have 3 heads!

This personal stuff has been building up and it is all becoming a tad annoying, I am sure it will all improve next year when I get my citizenship, have to do an exam and be able to prove I can speak English, my daughter tells me..Daddy you need to speak American not English now you are in America…., But in the meantime it is causing me problems.

So that is the background to the big thing.. I got a job…

Forcey Family Photo

Yes after 7 years of working at home in my shorts I now get to work in an office in jeans.. I am working for a local internet company that has a few businesses on the go, they have programmers and designers but no one knows (or cares) anything about content or seo and that is where I come in. I share an office with one design guy who is very cool and most importantly doesn’t seem to mind my music and my talking to the computer.

It is strange working for someone else, very strange getting a pay check every 2 weeks, (and even with more money coming in I seem to never have any) it is nice to see that my knowledge and experience is useful and I really do like the people I work with. The first couple of months were hectic which is why this blog has been so quiet but I am used to it now and am

SEO
It is funny how differently you look on link building when it is your job and a whole company is relying on you to grow their online exposure and not to get them deindexed or slapped. It is great to be paid to watch white board Friday and to read SEO Blogs and posts by people who do not recommend that you throw a few thousand profile links at a site and see how it goes. I spend my time looking at the larger picture as I only have 3 sites to worry about, I also have access to people to make videos (live action and aniomoto), do infographics and any other graphics stuff I need done.

My online life
I am still here and am still working on my own stuff, I have new products coming up, I am still updating products and have some thoughts to share about Facebook/twitter/links and quality vs quantity and why passion may be the winner in the future.  I see so much when i spend time going through data that it would be a shame not to be able to share it all.

So I am going to be posting here and on Facebook again, I am going to finish up the manual for some software I have been using for a while and I also have an info product or 3 kicking around in my brain so i shall try and get all that out to you by the end of this year.

Yahh there is a new version of wordpress out, and it looks nice and all my plugins work with it so all is good in the world..

I spent a couple of hours updating most of my sites (will do more later in the week was my thought).. Next morning I wake up log in to a site and ..what..what do you mean we now need to update to 3.2

I am not sure of the exact number but it feels like I have updated WordPress 3 times (at least) in the last month..I love the program and I understand why they need to do updates, and of course it only takes a few seconds to do it.. well if you have one site..

Say it takes 5 mins a site (open it up, log in..wait find the log in info, then log in, then do the updates, then log out and move to the next one). What if you have 10 sites, that is close enough to an hour you just spent.. even if it is only once a month that is not good is it?

Say you have 20 sites and they do two updates in a month..so you just wasted 4 hours.. and lets be honest running the updates is boring!

I was so pleased to see a different way of dealing with it. Dave Toomey has had a desktop tool made to deal with the (what seems like constant) updating that WordPress needs. Nice and simple to use and you can choose to just update wordpress or have it update your plugins as well.

Buy WpMass Updater

Is it perfect, well the only thing I can think of is that when you have some plugins which need something weird doing every time you update you would still have to log into your site. For me just saving the time it takes to update the sites I have makes it worth it for me. This is one of those tools that doesn’t seem to do exciting things, it won’t drive traffic or make you sell a load more products.

It gives you THE TIME to do all the exciting stuff instead of updating WordPress.

p.s I love WordPress and it is vital to keep it updated, if you only have a couple of sites then keep doing it by hand. If you have more than a few sites then you really do owe it to your brain to automate the process