I’m going to wrap up the blogging week with an assortment of information, news, and general items to share with my readers. In sifting through my bookmarks, downloads, and assorted files I have located some “stuff” that may be of interest to you.

  • Yesterday, I downloaded and used for the first time CC PDF Converter, a program that does some of what pricey Adobe Acrobat does — changes almost any file over to the *pdf format. I am satisfied with all that this freeware product is able to do.
  • Initially, I had reservations about mentioning the Authority Blogger forum as I don’t want to spoil what looks to be a good thing. The forum was developed by Chris Garrett whose tag line for the site is, “strategic blogging for business and professionals.” My friend Bobbie Sullivan, who is a research psychologist and the owner of Aircrew Health, recommended the forum to me and offered her assurance that the site has a much more professional tone than the many “noisy” forums dominating the internet these days.
  • SEO or search engine optimization will probably always be an important thing for me as long as I have a presence on the web. The rules always seem to be changing as Google and gang adjust their algorithms and webbies do their best to dominate the SERPs. Forget PageRank — this tool is probably changing again given the late release of the most recent updated.
  • I get a chuckle from reading what some people try to pass as SEO advice. No, I won’t go mentioning some of the worst of the lot, but I find much of what passes as SEO is inaccurate, some is even rubbish. What does intrigue me are contextual backlinks, something I am just now beginning to get my mind around. If you have an opinion about this sort of thing, please share.

Have a relaxing weekend.

Photo Credit: Sanja Gjenero, Croatia