It amazes me how many websites or articles I come across that could be ranked #1 in search engines if they utilized the power of keywords. I mean, the content is good and useful. The problem is that it is hiding from Google or other search engines because the content is not optimized correctly. Finding keywords is as easy as going to a free keyword tool such as Wordtracker or Google Adwords Keyword Tool and plugging in your keyword. Then you narrow it down to the longer tail keywords with monthly searches of at least 500 and low competition of at least 5,000 or less. Then all you do is sprinkle the keywords in your content (especially your title, first paragraph and last).

There you have it, the secret ingredient of getting your content ranked high in search engines and therefore driving loads of traffic back to it. It really is as simple as keywords.

Venice Conference is all sorted so grab your cornetto. We are booked in at Alcyone. But you guys can stay anywhere, we found our hostel here.

It’s New Years Eve, again. it does tend to happen once a year and yet I always seem to reach this point of the year in the same position. You see, my problem is I am always single at this time of year. When i go out with friends socialising it seems they are all one half of a couple.

I know what will happen; the count-down will begin, they’ll all grab their respective partners, and I’ll be left standing there single as the clock strikes midnight. well, i made a decision, this year WILL be different. I know that I’ll be single, but I have decided that I’m not going to let it bother me this year. this year I will enjoy being my own person with no-one to answer to. After all, I am successful at work, I was promoted a few months ago, I have a salary increase to look forward to in February and my home is secure. So what if I don’t have a girl on my arm. I certainly won’t get one if I am always feeling insecure about myself. I will let this new year be the start of my new positive thinking life.

Right guys, this is a painful one, but you’ve gotta know about it.

You know your banjo string, right? The bit that attaches your foreskin to the rest of you on the underneath of your “little man”… well, it seems strong and fine, but believe me, it can snap.

Wince.

Yes, wince all you want… but it can happen. A little bit of rough and tumble, gets a little too rough and all of a sudden you have a lot of pain and a LOT of blood… and your mind races through a large amount of possibilities.

Now. The good thing is its not debilitating in the long term. (in the short term its excrutiating, messy and very worrying), however, in the long term, you don’t have to worry about a thing.

Once its happened, its happened, and you’ve simply got to suck it up and take it like a man. Tissues, and pressure, thats the way, and expect to come home sore and with blood in your pants for a few weeks before it heals. Savlon, or other skin healing cream is a good thing, but just realise, you ain’t getting any nookie for a good month or two.

Taking of painful things that we need to think about - that reminds me, this is a request if anybody knows of any approaching management roles around the corner in their office? The only reason i ask is because one of my mates has their heart set upon getting out of their current job. He’s at the moment flogging something a bit like pet insurance, and that’s fair enough, however they could easily see themselves in a more demanding role.

Well hello there.  If you’re thinking the title of my blog suggests an air of arrogance, you’d be forgiven.  However, it’s not out of pure arrogance that I chose the term, moreover  ’Bright Spark’ simply reflects my intellectual capacity shown from my ability to acheive high grades at school.  It’s not just my opinion of myself - my schooling history will show you that I’ve always been a high flyer as far as academics go.

When it comes to getting a girlfriend, well that’s an entirely different matter altogether.  I might be deemed as fairly (if not entirely) useless in the art of social wooing, as indeed my schooling history will also show you. (Something I may or may not choose to go into depending on how the mood takes me).

There, you see…a fairly well balance of arrogance and insecurity.  On the one hand I’m aware of my strengths especially when it comes to my intellectual capacity.  Yet at the same time I’m all to aware of my faults and don’t attempt to hide my self depreciating side. 

Perhaps I’m a bit conscious of the ‘arrogance’ thing because I’ve been labelled with the term in class as well as being perceived to be what most people would call ‘a geek’.  

The reason I created this blog was to feel free to express my talents as well as my insecurities without the fear of being judged; a fear that I have succumbed to all to often at school.

I hope to connect with other ’social outcasts’ (or ‘geeks’ as we’re so negatively labelled) in the hope that they too will empathise with the dilema of being brilliant, yet shunned.

And so I would like to begin as I mean to go on by asking the question:

How does it feel to have so much to give and yet be so socially rejected?