Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down
Talkin' to myself and feelin' old
Sometimes I'd like to quit
Nothing ever seems to fit
Hangin' around
Nothing to do but frown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.

Now Mondays on the other hand are another thing. What Mondays mean to me are the end of my weekend. The end getting to see my boys every second and being with the beautiful blonde woman.

The day job takes that precious rest of the week that I'd rather spend with them. So come Monday morning I stomp back off and do what men are supposed to do to take care of their families. Say the yes sir's and no ma'ams till the time clock says I get to return home to my family.

Sometimes I'd like to quit....but I don't.  It's not really what I do, I keep going.

So unfortunately for my family, sometimes Sunday evenings, those feelings start creeping in that I didn't spend enough time with them that weekend. Or that maybe I didn't get to that one project that I wanted to didn't get done.

It's a vicious circle.

But my family does love me, can't get enough me and it's those moments that I do get to share with them that are the times that I truly live for.

Now go enjoy your family, I'm going to go enjoy mine.

To Tweet or Not To Tweet

I was slow to get on the Twitter band wagon.  I had already spent countless hours on other social sites, myspace, youtube, skype, yuwie (pronounced YUCKIE!).  Anyway, the last thing I needed was another time black hole, so no, I went kicking and screaming.

But I have to admit, I love Twitter.  Where else can I jump from topic to topic, or spread an affiliate link to 6000+ followers in two clicks. 

I just wish I had more than 140 characters to work with sometimes.

It does have that standing around the water cooler at work feel sometimes.

There is an art though to being a proper Twitteree.
These are some of mine.
*Tweeting is not texting..so leave that cursed shorthand to the texters.
*Typing in all caps is still "YELLING!", and using all lower case means you're lazy.
*Drop an occasional link, if all of you're Tweets are affiliate links, um..it's called SPAM.
*If all of you're Tweets are news articles,..BORING.

Mix it up for cripes sake, the general idea is that you're at a giant social event.  So imagine someone standing in a corner sputtering Shakespeare quotes every 5 minutes.  The first couple are cool, but after that I'm heading over to the bar and getting a Jack-N-Coke. 

Look in the other corner and there is some guy handing his business card to anyone that looks in his direction. 

Now you're getting it.  It's okay to talk about business, but don't come off like a firehose.

It's a great tool to use to build your online presence.  You can get a lot of "followers" fast, so give quality and you will get quality back.

Oh, I almost forgot, look me up at WhatamanJackson and feel free to give me a tweet.

Backlinks - What are backlinks ?

What they are links that point to certain sites. So the site linking will have at least one outbound link (leaving link) and the site receiving the link will have one inbound link.

You have to realize the importance of backlinks.

From a SEO standpoint, they give your site tremendous weight. Credibility is what everyone wants for their site and backlinks give you essentially that. They can mean the difference from a site you will never be able to find to those coming in at the top of search engine results.

Now they aren't the be all and end all of SEO, but they are important.  So important that people spend hundreds of dollars on purchasing links, but that is akin to buying or renting people to pretend to be your friend for the weekend.  May give you a quick jolt but will evaporate over time.

Where your links come from are also important, if your site about growing vegetables or gardening, then to the search engines having links from gambling sites are not relevant.  Well not as relevant or carry the same weight as having them come from sites of a like nature as your own.

All of this attributes to your Page Rank or "PR", so in turn the higher the Page Rank of the sites you are getting backlinks from adds to the mix as well.

In short a link is a link is a link and the more links you get the better.  But not all links are created equal, so take some time and choose your links, it could mean all of the difference in the world to the almighty search engine gods.