Happy Halloween everyone. Hope you had fun last night on All Halllow's Eve. My wife and I took the kids out trick or treating in the neighborhood. I took some videos but most of them came out to dark to see.

The neighborhood we live in doesn't have a lot of children so there weren't very many people giving out candy. I felt the kids made a sub standard haul, by my standards, but they were quite pleased with the amount of candy they got and that is all that matters.

"Back in the day", we weren't happy unless we had filled up our pillow case for the second time, soaped the neighbors windows, and TP'd half a dozen yards. Things are a lot different now. The excepted vandalism that used to go hand in hand with trick or treating isn't "excepted" any more.

Have people lost their sense of humor? Oh well, here is the only video footage that came out where you could see it. Maybe I should break down and get a decent video cam with a light.

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Just a brief post today. 

As regular visitors will no doubt tell the Blog looks totally different now than my original one when I started it at the start of the Alex Jeffreys Coaching Course way back at the end of November 2008.

Not got it quite as I wanted yet, but I will be tweaking the layout until I have it exactly as I want it. Let me know what you think.?

As always I appreciate your comments

Well as you all no doubt know I spent all day yesterday sorting out my Blog as it wouldn’t load properly in Internet Explorer 7 but it would in other browsers (Firefox, Chrome etc). But it didn’t just effect my site as there were many other Alex Jeffreys students effected, and I guess many other sites across the world had the same problem. When you attempt to go to the problem websites you got a message along the lines of this:-

“Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet Site …..
Operation Aborted”

Now the issue got more bizarre as the investigation went on, as I started to remove what I thought may be the offending items:- Video, flash, plugins etc. one by one, but the strange thing was it got to the point where I could directly put in the URL for a specific page and it would display fine with everything on it (including video, flash all my plugins… everything). However, if I attempted to naviagte to exactly the same page from anywhere else on my Blog, for example the Home page then this perfectly ‘good’ page would not display via that route! Very strange indeed, which led me to think it was something to do with  the Wordpress navigation which was the culprit. Alas, this was a total red-herring as what I tracked it down to be was one of the Social Media plugins I had installed, called “Onlywire Button”.

I have been focusing a bit on trying to get a higher rank in the listings for the search term ‘Alex Jeffreys‘ on Google as per the $1,000 competition Alex announced. Now for all those readers that are NOT Alex Jeffreys students, understanding how to improve your Google search position is highly important as it allows you to apply that knowledge to any search term and thus dominate the crucial top positions for any markets you choose. So it is essential to understand how Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) works to really be on top of your competitors in any niche.

So, I’ve been going through all my Alex Jeffreys Coaching Course notes and trying to put things into practice to increase my ranking. Now before Christmas I was in the Top 5 returned results for ‘Alex Jeffreys‘ but it seems the more popular my blog and subsequent increase in traffic, I have actually slipped down the rankings to number 21 !! Obviously I’m not that pleased about this so am going to make a concerted effort to get up in the Top 5. This is going to be an ongoing task until I meet my objective.