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More Sales More Potential Through SEO

Catch Friday — 2012-02-09T10:25:27Z

Getting your site seen on Google is an important way that businesses can have visibility to potential new clients searching for a solution. If you are first on the list you will receive at least ten or more fresh inquiries everyday depending on the popularity of your business plan.

Adsense is one way of assuring that your company can be seen, and is the quickest way for you to get to the top of the search engines on your chosen keywords, but is it efficient? Well it will depend how much your budget is, and I know small companies that are shelling out £1500 a month and more to get noticed.

SEO Search Engine Optimization can offer you huge savings on your budget if you are willing for long term results, rather than short. You can get for a few hundred pounds to the top of Google, but below the Adsense paid advertising within six to nine months on all your keywords if you are willing to use an outsourced company.

There are a lot of firms that boast making a large number of backlinks, blog commenting, press releases, bookmarking on sites like Delicious and article writing, and you have the choice. The problems that you may get maybe related to broken promises, and lack of control. However outsourcing companies that are local to your area, may be able to offer a better solution, and some can offer you your own back office, where you can select your staff yourselves using their facilities.

The advantages of this are that you have staff working for you, who you have selected and will brand with your business. This marks a totally different approach where you have total control as opposed to no control – you only pay the outsourcing company, who deal with all the admin and red tape. You also can change staff easily if they do not perform well.

You are the customer and your needs come first, and whether you pay a £1000 a month for twenty targeting press releases across social media, or less for more quantity from SMEs. The choice is yours.

Your Web Site has gone - Reality!

Catch Friday — 2012-02-01T10:51:18Z

My Virtual Personal Assistant told me last Monday morning that my website Catch Friday Media was down.

At the time I was on a train from London to Colchester to see my lawyer, and thought I would not get on Godaddy to the evening........ Frustrating enough, but website repair is not a one second fix, is it?

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /media/ on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.catchfriday.com Port 80

That evening I logged into Godaddy and since I only know the rudiments of programming - my back end staff do it all, don't yours?

Phoned Godaddy and spoke to them in the Arizona afternoon, and was told that my site had been hacked, and the website had been deleted. Fortunately I know that my IT back office at Ultro Digital our Call Center in the Philippines has everything backed up, but I guess not everybody may have that back up.

I have been with Godaddy since 2005, and loved there 24 hour service and technical staff, but what the heck had happened and what kind of customer service is this? On the spur of the moment I purchased an SSL Certificate for five sites and a Website Protection Site Scanner, but I cancelled these twelve hours later.

Upon review our security discovered that your website was compromised on or before Jan 28th via unknown means. The index scripts that were mentioned as being defaced were due to another malicious script being used by an attacker in the webdev/affiliate/admin/dump/ directory. However, that script no longer exists, nor was it backed up in our nightly backups. Therefore it is not possible to grab a timestamp on that file to determine its time of origin. I recommend that you modify all passwords on the hosting account, web application, database etc and then update all web applciations to the latest vendor supplied versions as well as any plugins they may be using.

I now am hosting my site with Ultro Digital in Davao Philippines, through a server in California.

This is the first time that this has ever been a problem for me, and I have learned a hard lesson from Godaddy that it doesn't matter how good a relationship can be - it was lost in a day. I still use Godaddy, and I host another site with them, but that's it - you know what I mean, don't you?

My confidence is in my back office in the Philippines with the Catch Friday Team.

I should have followed the advice of Gerard, Guus and James earlier, and taken the hosting out of Godaddy.

Thanks so much James Pitt and Guus Ellenkamp - appreciated!

Do you like Stand-Up Comedians?

Catch Friday — 2012-01-22T17:02:51Z

Can Women Trust Jeff Leach again?

Jeff has a list of 299 women that he went out with, were you one of them? If so how long has it taken for you to get over being dumped by Jeff?

If you are wondering who Jeff Leach is - he is a self-confessed sex addict, and I wonder if you
know someone who is?

Could Jeff be described as a predator, or someone carrying a craving who needs treatment?

Let's look at who Jeff Leach really is? Website or Brand? Effective blog

Could Jeff's blog find a place on Ecademy?

Jeff is an entrepreneur with a business - the guy is a male hooker, would there be a girl out there who is attracted to him?

Jeff sometimes wears masks....

Oh and yes Jeff is a Stand-Up Comic!

"We Provide Media That Get's You Noticed"

Tweet Hijack

Catch Friday — 2012-01-22T16:17:00Z

Your innocent tweet hijacked to attack US Government Websites, and even if you don't know about it you can go to jail.

On Twitter Hacker group Anonymous have 249,000 followers, are you one of them or is one of your children?

Watching TV and movies on the net has become acceptable to a vast number of people across the world, and file sharing is common place, but is it legal?

Is it really healthy that the US Feds want to rule the world, or is this solely about copyright?

Then how come the latest movies are available through the web, and who put them there? In the old days they were on films, so why are they freely available?

The Feds go one more they want to arrest hackers in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere and put them in prison for years, but are they dealing with this properly, or is US Justice crossing borders and where do they stop?

Meanwhile Anonymous are apparently tapping into twitter accounts and using them according to Sophos as part of their attacks on the US government and the anti-piracy organizations, with ordinary links which launch cyber attacks from the PC you are on, without you knowing it.

This threat may be happening right now on your PC without you knowing it, and you could be woken by a knock on your door in the middle of the night, are you ready for it?

According to the Daily Mail (2012)

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos has stated that he is not sure if participants would get away with claiming that they innocently clicked on links by mistake,'
'I'm not sure if participants in this instance would get away with claiming that they innocently clicked on links by mistake,' says Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, and this means ' that internet users need to be extremely careful when clicking on unknown URLs or they could unwittingly be joining this latest zombie army. If you participate in such an attack, you could find yourself receiving a lengthy jail sentence'.

Be Warned

"We Provide Media That Get's You Noticed"

Getting Media attention and High Ranking

Catch Friday — 2012-01-21T21:58:01Z

True media placed correctly brings results.

We placed this media on Ecademy and it rose to number one spot on Google out of 50,800,000 results, and had 2406 views, and 63 comments. The impact of the blog resulted on the public coming onto Ecademy via twitter and facebook, and talking about their stories. The net result was that the offending website was taken down, and the police were advised through the information given to the public. The telephone number was also taken down on the offending site.
Scammed Recently on Flight Tickets?
by Lawrence Perry [67.29:6] on 12-Dec-11 7:32pm
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I just had a friend text me about LE FLIGHT BOOKER LIMITED who run the website cheapticketsgo.co.uk which purports to sell discounted phone tickets.

She booked a flight for herself and her children to fly from London to Lagos for £2150, and so did a friend of hers - she was supposed to fly on the 10th December and she fills down and devastated because her flight was not booked.

Looking up Who Is on nominet the url is registered to Ms A. C. Man - Companies House reveals the registered office as
LE FLIGHT BOOKER LIMITED
41 LONDON ROAD
REIGATE
SURREY
RH2 9RJ
Company No. 07819655

Accounting Reference Date: 31/10
Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)
Next Accounts Due: 21/07/2013
Last Return Made Up To:
Next Return Due: 18/11/2012

The phone number on the site is 020 88199 195 which sounds like a foreign number doesn't it?

So they opened their company in Companies House, and started their website on the 3rd November 2011, and they then changed their address on 08/12/2011 FROM
154 CUMBERLAND ROAD
READING
RG1 3JY
UNITED KINGDOM

They opened their company with £1.

I just phoned her and she tells me that the people manning the line are Indian students.

I suggest if you buy an air ticket you should pay through an IATA agent.

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Media Splash: Thomas Power hits six!

Catch Friday — 2012-01-21T21:46:16Z

Getting the best out of raw social media

Focusing on the Ecademy Scoring System brought Catch Friday Media into the top ten rank of Ecademy, and within three weeks of using one of our social media virtual personal assistants, we as a media group went from number 42009 to rank 6 in three weeks.

Rank		Organisation	Score
1	Thomas Power	Ecademy	112.79
2	William Buist	Abelard Management Services Limited	103.79
3	Mike Morrison	RapidBI - making a RAPID difference to businesses	96.66
4	Georgina Lester	Specialist Social Media and Marketing Consultancy	76.11
5	jet rotmans	art express	74.08
6	Lawrence Perry	Catch Friday Media Ltd	67.29
7	Lucas Wyrsch	Swiss Business Club, TGC-Consultants, Future Power	66.22
8	Emma James	www.emmajames.co.uk	66.22
9	Penny Power	Ecademy	64.50
10	Andreas Wiedow	arow-biz - Das Weiterbildungsportal - anders weite	64.12

Rapidbi and Catch Friday Media threw crap on this race, and we posted this blog below which has been liked 138 times, with 135 comments and 1718 views.

This demonstrates the power of media.

Community : How long can Thomas Power stay No 1 on Ecademy?

by Lawrence Perry [67.29:6] on 9-Jan-12 12:47am

SoapBox: Can You Accept the Ecademy Challenge

It's like watching a horse race to watch the ups and downs of Ecademy score, an algorithm that Thomas Power outsourced.

Mathematically the programme may be flawed, but Thomas doesn't feel threatened, but who knows No 3 could pull him out of position.

Thomas Power suggested it was all a game, but who really knows on this soap that is playing out on Ecademy.

Mike Morrison threw down the gauntlet when he went from No 4296 to No 3 in three weeks, which goes to show that there is a real race unfolding before your very eyes.

Can Thomas survive with the pressure?

"We Provide Media That Get's You Noticed"

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Maximizing the Use of Ecademy for Business

Catch Friday — 2012-01-09T17:15:37Z

Ecademy is a business and social network started in the UK by Thomas and Penny Power et al.

It is quite popular with start up businesses, entrepreneurs and SMEs, and has a good blogging platform and some useful SEO links, a Google Page rank of 6/10 and other goodies. The SEO ranking is reason enough that anyone should consider joining Ecademy to propel their blogs on subject matter to the top of Google and get noticed. There is no hype in this ideal - it actually works!

The secret of Ecademy that makes it rock is that it is user friendly, and quite addictive to a degree that draws an advertising revenue for using it. Instant feedback provides lessons in blogging, and increases SEO score.

On top of that the platform has it's own score that you can collect from engaging with real businesses, high level of learning in communication techniques, which can turn into real business opportunities and collaboration.

The Add your post goes out to hundreds of links.

In the past there were a lot more meetings which were free and easy to join, these days any networking event costs and thus attendance is limited. Recent marketing encouraged boardrooms, so-called events that brought a brand of networking into mastermind groups - a brilliant and outstanding method of collecting wealth. Though I have not yet been invited to such an event, time is never on your side - would it be worth it? - not sold on the idea...are you?

If I want a 1 to 1 I will just phone up the person I want to meet and book one.

What about you - would you have time for Ecademy?

Or would you rather safe network - quote from the rule book: "Ecademy accepts that members will from time to time use secretaries or virtual personal assistants to operate their account on their behalf. In such a case the account holder is simply acting through that secretary or p.a. and no intention to mislead or deceive is present. Only the account holder is responsibility for the actions on their account."