I just wanted to say thanks, thanks to all the people who provided the quotes you now see on the sidebar of this blog.

For years I have worked with the name SEOidiot and part of that is down to my general opinion that I am in fact an idiot…

When you ask people like DaveN, Jason, Joost, Rob, Ralph, Julie etc to give a quote you never expect them to say quite what they did.

I need to start showing that confidence in what I write here too

Well its that time of year again where we all plan what we are going to tackle this coming 12 months…. sigh…

For this blog however we are going to see a change in the content.

Most of my personal ramblings will head off onto Posterous
This blog will be far more focussed on the following subjects: -

Practical SEO
Guides, tips, advice

Experiments
Some fun, some serious

And above all…

The business of making your living online

Automation
Outsourcing
How to’s

Anyway.. Thats the road we are headed on this year

As the bright light of a new decade streams through the bedroom window to suddenly focus what now appears to be an acute case of hangover I wanted to post this advice.

Normally at this time of year the net is suddenly filled with predictions posts and tweets (I even considered making a Twitter web app where you could add filter words to remove any tweet that contained “prediction”)

Rather than make any pointless predictions myself I would rather just share some commitments and plans for the coming year. This is a task that I would normally do at this time of year anyway.

2009 Goals

1. Move to entirely self employed (Done – March 09)
2. Diversify income as the first stage in long term plan (Done)
3. Start a new business with a friend (Done – Kerboo)

And my 2010 Goals are

1. Sell my Adsense flat to nearly clear my main mortgage (1st / 2nd Qtr)
2. Get Kerboo to 500 customers
3. Make 80% of my income location independent

And the sub projects for this year are all around the theme of

AUTOMATION

AUTOMATION

AUTOMATION

We have a 3 week trip to California planned in for August this year to look for somewhere we can relocate to (Planning for 2012 ish)

Heres the incentive for that…

Have a great 2010, make sure you have a plan and that you ACTION it

Rob over at InverseSEO pinged me an email to ask if he could use elements of my design on his redesign.

I dont know if it was the comments I have in my stylesheet or just that hes a nice chap… anyway the new design he created looks great – much better than mine anyway.

Well as many will know I am on Adsense account number 8 now and I have
never had any success with an appeal but a recent post by Shaun over
at Hobo will give hope to many…

http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/index.php/google-adsense-banned/

Id suggest keeping Hobo Web in your feed reader as Shaun really knows
what hes talking about…