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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Website Revisions and Old Site Updates

Blogging and website development. Wordpress, Blogger, Support Wiki. Google, Bing, and Yahoo! And let's not forget the onslaught of social media!

It seems in this new era of the internet online world its becoming almost impossible to keep up with the rapid changes, new features every platform seems to introduce each week, let alone keeping up with your own site development. Uggg! Yes that was a minor vent of frustration. Ok better now!

Honestly, it's been sometime sense I've posted on this Blogger platform but I'm back. My primary use for this blog will be to record webmaster activities for the Seneea Corporation and its product lines. The primary site, Seneea.com blog will discuss company news and business updates, activities, etc...

The challenge right now will be to locate any bad links pointing to nowhere, some from dead pages, others from site name changes that happened years back (yep, found a bunch of these old posts that need updating).

So if you're a tech geek or just someone interesting in site stats and so forth, stay tune.

Friday, July 29, 2011

College Cost Articles for College Students

With colleges and universities about to start up again for the fall semester or term of 2011, we wanted to take a quick look at a few helpful articles recently published on CollegeAdmissionSecretsExposed.


Scraping by as a student is challenging enough so with a little knowledge and ways to maximize your student dollar, you can breathe a little easier while keeping your focus on your classes.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

New E-Book gives College Applicants the inside track on Admissions

A fantastic new E-Book has been launched for prospective College applicants that provides the most effective techniques to get into the college of their choice, save money and build their skills base and learning portfolio too.

College Admission Secrets Exposed available instantly from College Admission Secrets Exposed provides a comprehensive, easy-to-follow series of strategies, ideas and facts to give students the best possible chance of getting into the college of their choice and enhancing their career and life success prospects.

With over 17.5 million college students already enrolled in America today and the average College graduate earning $20,000 a year more than a high school graduate – that’s over $900,000 more in a lifetime*, competition for college entry has never been fiercer. College Admission Secrets Exposed will level the playing field for students that feel they don’t have the right connections, financial backing or SAT scores to enroll in their dream course, college or university.

The information covered in College Admission Secrets Exposed describes an alternative ways to gain entry into college by going around a College Administration Department; how to pay up to 50% less for College; how to bypass a low SAT score; how to maximize a GPA; how to receive nearly all class resources for free and much more!

The book is compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android and most eReaders and can be downloaded right now from College Admissions Assistance Online for only $23.09, a special rate for students hoping to enroll in the fall 2011 semesters.

The free website College Admission Secrets Exposed also provides a wealth of information, resources, articles and advice on college life, opinions, studying secrets, financial planning guidance and many other situations that students will encounter both on and off campus.

College Admissions Secrets Exposed free articles are equally useful and valuable to students hoping to enroll on online study courses as well as physical campuses around the country.

Crucially, the website also provides real testimonials from former students who gained their places on courses through the information contained within the eBook.

Studying for your dream college degree is a life-changing and enhancing experience, a true fork in the road for any prospective student hoping to better their situation and prospects but current College Admissions Systems can put up too many perceived barriers and walls.

College Admission Secrets Exposed is the instantly downloadable and available map through this maze of College and University entry requirements and submissions along with much more. A constant and wise companion for two or four year college programs. Studying for a degree at College is one of the most affirming experiences anyone can have in their lives yet many students allow themselves to be intimidated out of applying.

They think that their home situation, family dynamics, poor credit, remote location and academic record will count against them. College Admission Secrets Exposed is the electronic failsafe against these self-defeating attitudes. Download it today for the exceptionally low cost $23.09 and by tomorrow you could be planning your new study schedule and revision timetables.

The College Admission Secrets Exposed eBook and website will be the most valuable reference tools you will use during your College learning career but you have to take advantage of them and their instant availability now. Admissions places are filling up fast and the longer you delay, the harder it will be to sign-up, even with the prime advantages and knowledge that College Admission Secrets Exposed will give you.

Go to the website, read some of the articles, download the eBook and take the first steps on a journey to a brighter and better future and career. You are only a click away!

http://www.collegeadmissionsecretsexposed.com/

*Figures from US Census Bureau

Saturday, June 4, 2011

College Life Articles for May 2011

This April our new article writer Astrid compiled a number of helpful college life articles and college information topics for CollegeAdmissionSecretsExposed.com. The website's mission and overall objective is to provide helpful and informative topics related to college life, student challenges, and timely news pieces our student readers will find helpful. For the month of May (and one back at the end of April) there were eight specific articles covering everything from Fraternity Hazing, Succeeding with Online Classes, and How to Maximize your Federal Student Loans just to name a few. Here are direct links to each:

Fraternity Hazing
How Much Money is Your Bachelors Degree Worth
8 Tips for Succeeding in Online Classes
How to Determine Accredited Colleges or Universities
Maximize Your Federal Student Aid
Massachusetts Investigates For Profit Colleges
Sallie Mae Cuts Private Student Loan Rates
Six Tips for Finding the Best College Professors for You

In the coming months we will continue to provide helpful student information and college life articles as we prepare for the up coming fall 2011 academic year.

New Author and Article Writer Welcome

The Seneea Corporation is pleased to announce our warmest welcome to Astrid, our newest Article Author and Contributor for CollegeAdmissionSecretsExposed.com. Astrid comes to us as a recent college graduate with a strong background in English composition and direct college life experience. As both a student and recent graduate, Astrid's personal success and challenges with student life will prove highly valuable as an author for our free student resource on College Admission Secrets Exposed. Please join us in welcoming Astrid to our team.

Friday, May 20, 2011

College Admissions eBook Website Revised

Last August we launched our website College Admission Secrets Exposed to promote the eBook publication of the same name. Initially and in all honesty, the site was juvenile at best. So in recent months we had a revision of the marketing web site, graphics, ebook covers, and blog content for the site. After months of rework we are pleased to report that the additions and revisions have now been completed with a few minor items still outstanding. Along with our publication updates we additionally made changes to the primary website hosting our eBook, which can be found at CollegeAdmissionSecretsExposed.com

Built on a custom WordPress theme platform, the blog and site layout is designed to accomplish two goals. 1) To provide free student advice for current and prospective college and university students through our blog entries, articles and commentaries. 2) To provide a platform to market and promote our eBook on how to get into college with College Admission Secrets Exposed.

Additionally, we have been working with our other sites to consolidate our United States University and College, by state database which we are publishing on the site as a free resource for our visitors.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Article List of Job Search Tips and Strategies

For the last few months we have been producing a number unique and relevant articles specifically related to Job Search Tips and Strategies. To date, this topic is by far the most talked about topic primarily do to the current economic situation and high unemployment. Other topics focusing on Career Success and Job Security round out the top three, to date most discussed topics on ResumeAdvantagePro.com. Below is a grouping of direct links to each of the articles relating to job searching tips and job search strategies.

Commuting to a New Job Opportunity
Job Search Engines Are Not Equal
Find a Job – Energize a Stagnant Job Search Tips
Using a Career Center for your Job Search
Job Interview Tips - Prepare Questions in Advance
Need a Job - Using Job Search Engines
Job Search Strategies while Employed - Tips and Secrets Revealed
Use the Newspaper Jobs and Employment Classifieds
Job Hunting is Hard but Jobs ARE Out There
How to get an Edge on Your Job Search
Job Application Process, The Perfect Job - Part 3
Job Descriptions and Duties - The Perfect Job, Part 2
Job Descriptions and Duties - The Perfect Job, Part 1
How to Prepare for a Job Interview - Tips and Questions
Job Hunting? Do More Than Email Resumes and Wait
Job Hunting Tips and Resume Writing Help
Resume Writing Secrets You Will Discover

In the coming months more topics will be added and those popular topics relating to resume writing and job hunting will continue to be discussed. Feel free to join in on the conversation, make comments or suggestions. Cheers all, -Brian.

Friday, March 4, 2011

How to Make a Site Map

Webpage site maps are still a great opportunity to provide the web spiders and robots while crawling your site a quick one stop map to identify your page hierarchy. Many sitemaps can be auto generated using basic link checking software like Xenu Link Checker (a program I highly recommend and use often). But all site maps look the same, so this time around I decided to change things up a bit by creating a page I call Resume Writing Tips and Resume Articles, which is directly linked to the index home page.

I did this specifically for ResumeAdvantagePro.com because I wanted more then just a page call site map, and by putting the link text in my footer with the anchor text as "Resume Tips and Resume Articles". It not only allows this page to be associated with the link phrase but it seems to have more relevancy between the page name and the actual content provided. But then again, who knows. I still create and upload a sitemap.xml at least once a month to Google and put it in my root index for the web spiders to locate.

Teacher Resume - New Site Added

I just added a new website titled MyTeacherResume.com. The intent is to use specific niche web sites as part of my marketing strategy for ResumeAdvantagePro.com. Now before anyone see this as an attempt to create a content farm site; our primary attempt is to provide quality content specific to the Teaching industry and Teacher as it pertains to their jobs and career field.

It will take time to build up our content and posts on the Teacher Resume site, but for now we are starting with major teaching career activities such as preschool and kindergarten, elementary, middle school, and high school. We will move into more college categories at some stage but our focus for the site for now is primarily on K-12 grades.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Google Site Performance - Site Page Speed Tool

New Toy! Yea. Google now has as part of their webmaster tools a site performance page loading speed estimator that looks at a random selection of pages on your site and averages the load speed. This provides you a quick and dirty look at any load delays or issues you may on your site. Thanks again Google for a quick and simple tool that is free and highly useful. Yet I must point out that even though I use Google webmasters tools often, this feature was pointed out to me by my friend Leroy and his site http://www.interfacebus.com/ .

The site performance page speed tool, according to Google's webmaster tools, Free Class Notes Online averages 2.8 seconds to load as of the last update on January 26 of this year. This is faster then 53 percent of sites out there. The index or home page averages a load time of 1.7 seconds.

While on my other site, Resume Advantage Pro, the average load time is 2.6 seconds across the entire web site, 56 percent better then other sites, with the home page or index page loading in 2.1 seconds. This is fantastic because this index page is full of resume writing and free career advice articles and tips that are continually updated. I believe part of the good performance numbers comes from using Wordpress as my CMS which is optimized well.

Free Class Notes Online - 2010 Stats

This past year, Free Class Notes Online performed well pulling in 42,853 total visitors from 170 countries, and a total of 104,901 page views for the year. I did switch completely the URL address from ClassNotes123.com over to FreeClassNotesOnline.com in early 2010 which is why my Google Analytics data is missing the first quarter.

I do have the numbers from the previous URL of Class Notes 123. There were 4,323 visitors, January through March of 2010 from the old class notes site. I made the switch because is appeared that the URL was hindering my traffic. I can honestly say I did see an up tick in traffic after the switch but I believe that's from having more keyword combinations in the URL name.

The bulk of my traffic is organic with Google search engine dominating the traffic source at over 77 percent of the total traffic. Yahoo and Bing organic traffic is very low totaling less then 4 percent combined. One could say if I optimize a bit for Yahoo and / or Bing I might see a jump in traffic; something I'll consider throughout this year as I find time. Overall it was a good year for traffic. Now if I can only get the same traffic on my newest site, http://www.resumeadvantagepro.com/ , then I'll be really, really happy! Cheers all. -Brian

Sunday, February 6, 2011

How Often Should You Update a Sitemap

Onsite maintenance completed this morning with additional testing performed on the main index site, http://www.resumeadvantagepro.com/  We use Xenu Link checker to look for any onsite or external broken links or invalid URL issues. In running the report we do always find that there is an odd issue with a forbidden request 403 Error, specifically generated from the comment block. Not an issue but makes the report look a bit odd but nothing unusual for us. Per this reporting, no orphan files were reported or internal page errors. Currently we’re showing 417 total internal URL's by MIME type.

Additionally, we're updating the uploaded Google Webmaster sitemap. There is always the question of how many times or how often should you update a sitemap. In our case, we often generate a new .xml site map once or twice a month depending on the level of new content and blog activity we have. This round we submitted 108 pages to be indexed, up 13 sense our last sitemap update.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Important Announcement - Sub-domain Site Maintenance

RE: Resume Advantage Pro's video workshop member's area.
The sub-domain membership site for Resume Advantage Pro will undergo maintenance this Sunday, February 06 between 5am to 7am EST. This may effect streaming video speeds during this time period. However, it is anticipated little disruption will occur during the entire 2 hour block of time. Streaming video speeds may only be slower during random intervals.

No issues will be affected on the primary product pages, the free content blog, support help desk, or any issues with our shopping cart to include the affiliate marketing program area. All of these components are run on different DNS or attached services.

If there are any issues that occur outside this 2 hour window please let us know.

Google Crawl Stats for ResumeAdvantagePro.com

Following months of product development and revising our product distribution channels, moving primarily to online streaming video and PDF resume templates and Microsoft Word files; our focus for Resume Advantage Pro has shifted to marketing and free site content.

In the last 90 days the crawl stats for the Googlebot activity has shown steady growth, revisiting http://www.resumeadvantagepro.com/ more frequently with averages of 20 plus pages crawled daily. Not bad sense we did little to promote the site until early December 2010.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Social Media for ResumeAdvantagePro.com

With most of the site development and updates complete, we've move to social media as a communication and marketing platform to announce really anything. Over the past week I've tweaked the affiliate marketing page and completely revised the product page adding more content and overhauling the look of that page. We're now on Twitter at 1ResumeWriting and on Facebook. Join our conversation for any status updates for Resume Advantage Pro and see what the buzz is all about. Cheers all.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Sufficient Permissions Wordpress Issue Resolved

Today is all about website maintenance for ResumeAdvantagePro.com. After several weeks of onsite search engine optimization work and content building, I'm finally getting back to more social media discussions with Facebook and Twitter. I've been running into an issue with Wordpress that has become rather annoying and this weekend is the time to find a fix for it. There is a issue with the Comment section where I keep getting the message "you do not have sufficient permissions to access this page".

I think I found the fix but need to test it. What I did was update all the plug-ins to their current versions even the plug-ins that are inactive. I also went in and turned off all my plugins and to my surprise I was now able to get past this error message. I'm going to activate each plugin one at a time and see where the issue is. Maybe the plug-in update helped solve this but we'll see.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Resume Writing Blog Posts for December 2010

This past December has been the most active to date for updates and posts now that we have moved from content updates and revising the Resume Advantage Pro product distribution method. We'll cover the highlights of these updates in a later post but for now, here are the articles, press releases, and general blog posts for those topics on how to write a resume for all career levels.

Resume Writing Secrets You Will Discover!
Don't Panic – Resume Writing Advice for College Graduates
Job Hunting Tips and Resume Writing Help
Job Hunting? Do More Than Email Resumes and Wait
How to Prepare for a Job Interview – Tips and Questions
Job Descriptions and Duties – The Perfect Job, Part 1
Job Duties and Descriptions for The Perfect Job, Part 2
Job Application Process, The Perfect Job – Part 3
How to get an Edge on Your Job Search
Job Hunting is Hard but Jobs ARE Out There
Software Developers, Engineers, and Technicians: How's your Interview Skills? Are You Employable?
Use the Newspaper Jobs and Employment Classifieds
How to Write a Boring Resume – Would you Hire Oprah?
Job Search Strategies while Employed – Tips and Secrets Revealed
Create a Positive Work Environment – Joy at Work Review
Need a Job – Using Job Search Engines
Resume Writing Tips – How to Spell Resume
Resume Writing Mistakes – Top 20 Misspelled Words and Bad Resume Phrases
Business Networking – Expand your Career Network
Resume Tips – Your Brand Identity
Job Interview Tips – Prepare Questions in Advance
Write a Resume for the New Year
Free Affiliate Marketing Program – Signup Today!
The Resume Objective
Resume Writing a Home Based Business Idea
Using a Career Center for your Job Search

Stay tune for more updates and news as our writers turn out more and more content. Cheers all, Brian.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Resume Writing Site Continues to Grow...

It's been just 10 days sense I updated the .xml sitemap file for Resume Advantage Pro after a major site overhaul. As it stands right now, Google is crawling an average of 8 pages per day, with a high if 32 with no html errors being reported. This past weekend I spent some time recoding a .php script to more accurately display each pages proper meta tag description, specifically the home index page. I have initiated an aggressive SEO linking campaign to start building page rank and the overall site reputation.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Career Articles and Sitemap for Resume Advantage Pro Uploaded

The most recent .xml resume sitemap has been uploaded this weekend to Google Webmaster tools for http://www.resumeadvantagepro.com We're currently showing 30 URLs in the web index but sense we just started tracking this site statistics I don't currently have any current growth data or crawl stats. I have noticed a few keyword phrases starting to show up on page 1 of Google for a few longtail keywords but until I have a few months of SEO data to compare against I can’t at this stage make any predictions.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Site Maintenance, ShoppingCarts, and Membership Site updates for Resume Advantage Pro

We're back and in full swing. The Seneea Corporation has been challenged like so many in these tough economic times. But with the completely re-release of our successful Resume Writing Video Workshop Program, now completely available online our staff is happy to announce our resurgence in this marketplace.

Resume Advantage Pro or for some of us in the office who are referring to it as the Resume Advantage Professional 2.0 online video software and workbook program is now fully available. This week we've been working on a lot of integration issues so there has been a lot of site maintenance behind the scenes. We switched over to using Wordpress as our primary content management system (CMS) and integrating our sub-domains membership sites to Wishlist Member to handle all the site content security and file protection. We were using AWeber as our email Autoresponder and Clickbank from prior ebook accounts we had setup. But I'll be blunt here. Clickbank is a pain to do any real customization so we decided to switch over to 1ShoppingCart to provide a more robust solution. The best part is 1ShoppingCart integrates very well with Wishlist Member and it also has a good email Autoresponder built in. The 1ShoppingCart autoresponders are not at easy and attractive to use as Aweber, but at this stage it is not that big of an issue.

The major annoying problem was getting Clickbank billing page to show various line items for bundled products and split out a shipping cost. A huge headache with Clickbank! They say they'll accept physical products but it's a hassle so as Resume Advantage Pro and our other sites grow I want more options and it seems 1ShoppingCart will provide this.

There still is some work to be done on the maintenance aspect this weekend, all behind the scenes such as link checking, sitemaps, .xml uploads and more link building but for now we're off to a good start. I'm using Xenu Broken Link Report to check the links, an older program but one I've always been able to count on because the creators made it outstandingly simple (Thanks You Xenu). Beyond this I've been told our gateway is all setup and outside of a few test runs we're off and running.