Things, and how they keep happening

It’s been a while since the last post in the style of the good old days, back when I could celebrate having a working gas stove or an MOT. Things used to be so tangible in those days,so full of gosh-darn fixability. There was a problem, and we would tackle it with whatever means necessary until it was fixed, I would get to write a blog post that sang of achievement and general story-telling goodness. Now the van starts, the pitches are lining up and we have almost everything sorted for the wedding. Actually that’s not true, we have loads left to do for the damn wedding, but we don’t have to cater for it, so it’s really not that difficult. In fact I literally just have to say two words in the right place and I can sign off for the day....

Heading South for the Winter

If you have just joined us from the Soliloquy, please make yourselves at home and catering yourselves in good hands. If you have not, you should probably share this post on a social media outlet of your choice, because we may be onto some sort of existential time travel, which may or may not make sense further down the page. The Jabberwocky has cultivated itself a modest online presence thanks to your help and some hastily learnt webdesign skills. However one thing it has not achieved is search engine optimisation. This elusive and mysterious phenomenon, hidden inside the walls of a large and brightly coloured organisation that rhymes with moogle, is the one thing that makes the difference between front page and no page. It is the process of convincing a certain...

SEO for fun and profit

Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO for short, is the process of making your website come out in front on search terms relevant to it. It was something I had not really considered, as prior to my expedition into the web I had been of the opinion that Google would automatically select the site that I most needed, and place it on the front page, presumably acquiring this information by means of invasive telepathy. I had just never thought about how Google actually knew what I was looking for. Having once slipped into the murky waters of SEO, which is ominously populated by “crawlers” and “googlebots”, I found that Google webmaster was more than happy to share much of this information with me. It confidently informed me that the most important...

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