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Everyone wants to know “the secret” to successful Internet Marketing. I always get questions on such topics as, “who can beat Google?” and,  “How can I get to the top of the search engine rankings?”. Well, I could post my search engine optimisation advice on this blog, which I do from time to time, but what if you have more questions than I want to answer?

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What if I found a website that has all the “right answers”? And of course, they just won’t tell you what you should do, they will also offer to do it for you as one of the many services they provide.

For me, the services that TopClickMedia provide are some of the best in our business, and I have no problems whatsoever if I have to refer clients to them. Heck, I will be using their Pay Per Click services soon!

One of my 2009 resolutions is to become a WordPress Guru. I have many websites running under WordPress, and know my way around to tweak what I need to out of them. And even creating custom themes for those sites is something I can do easily.

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But, as far as the inner workings of the CMS itself, that’s what I’ll be concentrating on this year. So does anyone out there have a “career path” you would like to share with us?

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I’ll be adding my latest Facebook posts onto this site, so stay tuned for that exiting bit of news!

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I have searched for that perfect web hosting company for many years. I have, through trial and error, purchased many hosting accounts during the years I’ve been a webmaster. And many of those hosting companies were….well….junk!

So when I found a great place to find personal web hosting that I could use for my many websites, I jumped at the chance to see what they had to offer.

For example, a review was done on webhostingpad, that is very comprehensible and trustworthy. That is such an important aspect to a review site. Anyway, if you check out that review, you’ll see that they cover all the bases.

So check them out like I did.

Here’s what my desktop looks like:

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

The upgrade went so smoothly from the Hardy Heron (8.04) to this latest 8.10. I’m also running (via VirtualBox) Elive, Fedora9, Windows XP – strictly JUST for web design etc.