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Pod casts and pod casting is nothing new, and has been around for some time on the web. I have often thought that sometime I might try my hand at creating one. The problem you see is that I haven not really listened to many of them. That is until now. While using I-tunes at work the other day I had realized I had left my USB drive at home. Alas I had no music with me, so I decided to check out what I-Tunes had listed for pod casts.

Well I was pleasantly surprised to find hundreds if not thousands on interesting pod casts, in various categories. I was listening to health pod casts, business pod cats, and even some graphic design pod casts. I haven’t even begun to check out the video pod casts.

Some great pod casts I have found are below, check them out you might enjoy them too:

  • Quick and Dirty Tips – This is about a 6 minute pod cast that give some good tips for being more productive and organized.
  • The Public Speaker – Another 6 to 7 minute pod cast jam packed full of great public speaking tips.
  • Bikescape – A pod cast devoting to bicycling and bikes. A new hobby of mine.
  • If you have suggestions of other pod casts I should check out please leave a comment.

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    If you have been surfing the web for a while, or have a site on the web you have no doubt heard the term PageRank. If you own a web site and have not heard about PageRank now is a good time to learn.

    What is PageRank?

    Essentially PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by Google. PageRank was designed to make search results more relevant to the person using the search engine. It works by assigning a value to a web page based on what sites link to it. However it goes much deeper than that. PageRank also looks at the weight it has assigned to the linking pages. From the number of links to web page and the value of the pages linking to that site, PageRank determines the value it assigns for that page.

    Sound complicated? That is because it is complicated. In fact my brief description does not really do it justice. Plus add in the fact that the engineers at Google are always updating the algorithm to prevent it from being abused. Not long ago Google rolled out a few changes that had dramatic effects across the web. Sites that had a PageRank of 7 (PageRank is out of 10) went to a PageRank of 3 overnight. needless to say it was a shock to a lot of people.

    How does PageRank Affect a Website?

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    Well a lot has happen since my last post in April. I have moved to a different city, and taken on a different (but coolest in the world) job. However as I said in the last post I want to once again get tenacious Creations rolling.

    Maybe even get some page ranking back. Although I am pretty impressed that even with an almost total lack of new content this site still attracts 200 or more visitors a day. Most of my visits are for my photoshop tutorials. With the one about making a better virtual tattoo receiving the most traffic right now.

    I guess that goes to show that if you have content the traffic will come. I only wish I knew then what I know now about Search Engine Optimization. I am sure I could of made all those photoshop tutorials rank a fair bit higher in the search engines.

    So what am I going to do to get traffic back?

  • 1. Try to post on a regular basis.

    My plan is for a new post on Sunday, Tuesday, and one on Friday. I hope if I can keep this schedule with regular updates it will once again get some traffic flowing.

  • 2. Promote the blog a bit more.

    I am not really sure how I am going to accomplish this. I do however have a few ideas. As blogging is more of a community thing I hope to visit some of the blogs I used to read regularly and as always I try to leave a comment. I am hoping that those blog owners may take the time to visit my site in return. With any new tutorials I will submit them to all the tutorial listing sites as I did before. That always tends to bring some traffic. Other than that promotion of my blog is something I will have to research.

  • 3. Maximize Search Engine Optimization Techniques.

    I have learned a lot about how to use some search engine optimization techniques in the past year. I really want to work what I have learned into this blog. While sharing with you my reader what I have learned in various posts.

  • If all goes well I hope that with in two months I can increase the traffic to this blog to 400 hits a day. Not to big of a goal, and one that should be easily accomplished. As always if you have ay suggestions on how I can increase the traffic to this blog please feel free to let me know.

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    After months of Neglect – Finally a new Post!

    April 10, 2009

     Well after months and months of no activity here on Tenacious Creations I thought I should write a post of what has been happening. As well as maybe a glimpse into the future of Tenacious Creations. First off I want to thank all of you who keep coming back to this site even though there [...]

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    Branding – It is not just for Cattle Anymore!

    June 21, 2008

     If you read about improving traffic to your site or selling a product you have no doubt heard about branding. When I think of branding I am remind of growing up on the farm. I can still smell the mixture of red hot metal and seared flesh. Just like the brand on cattle identifies them [...]

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