About the rookie










Hello dear reader,

First of all, I think I should introduce myself.

My name is Olivier, french version of english forename Oliver, and I'm born in 1968.
I live and work in Brussels (Belgium) and I'm a married fellow, proud father of a little boy born in 2008.

I'm an "old fashion way" techie guy, who studied IT during the early 90th (can you imagine studying COBOL ANS74, RPG II or Sinix ? I did it !)
I love a huge kind of stuff, but surfing, learning, reading and writing are my top 4 ;)

I began to blog approximately 10 years ago. I experimented several platforms : TypePad was the very first and few years ago, I finally moved to Blogger.
I'm still a Blogger user.

Like almost everyone, I'm on Facebook and LinkedIn but I feel I need more :)

For few years, I read about SEO, PageRank, eReputation, Social media marketing, Technorati.com, Ranking, trafic management, backlinks, content farms and others.
I tought these concepts look nice and smart but I must confess a part of myself found them a bit useless.
To me, the quality of the content was enough to attract readers...

I was wrong.
I was terribly wrong.
I'm now conviced that all these terms (and many new) describe a virtual reality : I need to learn how to bring my market on my content !

As SEO rookie, I now decide to reborn this weblog, wideseo.com, created in 2007.
At this time, a colleague and I had a first feeling that SEO was a "must-learn" subject and we decided to use a blog to share our feelings and first discovers about the subject.
I guess the seed germinated, but was not yet strong to withstand the negative waves ;-)

I give me 12 months to improve significantly the trafic of this site.

I want to use this blog as a journal, in which I will describe the actions taken to improve the quality of referencement of the blog and all new stuff I can learned by my readings or by the feedback of my smart readers.
I begin the journey from scratch. We are now in March 2011 and this blog is not referenced at all, even not trafic monitored with a free tool like Google Analytics.
I need a complete course and lots of experience to grow.

I suppose I will begin alone. If the job is well done, I should have some support from readers shorthly.

So if you're a rookie, join me ! The trip should be healthy and good for the brain.

If you're an SEO/Web marketing/social media specialist, join us too ! We NEED you to grow.
Please, put this blog on your RSS and come to see us regularly to share your science.
In exchange, you will learn a community of followers !

"One more thing" (c)

I decide to write this blog in english for 2 main reasons:
First, if I succeed my SEO experiment, I suppose I will be readen by more people accross the web than if I had written in french.
Secondly, it's a good mean for me to improve my level of english. I'm a french-spoken person and I learn basic english at college (I confess I'm not a rocket science :).

My sources of improvement are US/UK TV shows as 'Lost', 'Desperate Housewives', 'Dexter', 'IT Crowd' or 'How I met your mother'. It can explain the gaps ;)

So please, be indulgent with me regarding the beauty of my prose...

I wish you all the best


Olivier aka Setaou
www.setaou.be
setaou(@)gmail.com


If you want more details about what I read, what I like/dislike, my interests or other stuff, feel free to visit my personal weblog www.setaou.be

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