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Why PageSpeed is the single most important factor to improve right now for your website PageSpeed Equals Landing Page Experience. It is the only thing that distinguish your site from the other bidders at Google’s Auction. Why PageSpeed optimization is the single best thing you must do to distinguish yourself from the competition in 2022. […]
Is it not very narrow minded to stick to online advertising only? I prefer to be / become an advertising agency that serves serious and sustainable businesses. Not the fast digital startups were 9/10 will not make it. So, keeping that broad view, I looked into print advertising. I read about it for years. Warran
Let me be honoust with you. You should not Advertise on Ecosia in 2022, it is better to start today, but the title of this post ending on ’22 will last me longer, you know. In two month’s from now we are entering a new year, and if I would use 2021 in the title
The past three days have been mindblowing. AdWorld is an online conference (duh) and for me it was the oppertunity to get submerged in a huge stream of presentations about Advertising that ran similtaniously at three diffrent stages. First of all kudo’s to the organisation, the sign up and planning of the sessions I wanted
Is as simple as that. Not only does it help you to get better organic seearch results, because Google likes fast sites and even punishes slow sites, also real people will more likely stick around on your site when it is not as slow as waiting in the line in the supermarket standing behind an
One of the most energetic house DJ’s around is te one and only Carl Cox. I’m sure your have your own fair share of music channels to listen to while grinding hours in your locked down home office situation, but if you have a moment, look up some of his sessions. His Yes, Oh Yes,
Santa Cruz, Bolivia 05/11/2020 This is the page where I am supposed to sell you my copywriting services. Probably the most unnecessary page on my website. At this point you already know who I am. You do not care at all what I have done before, you just need someone to sell your stuff using
Try Microsoft Bing Ads! In an era where Google Ads CPC prices are rising to astronomic proportions it becomes less interesting to advertise on Google Ads for certain markets. Before you start from scratch with Bing Ads you must know this. If you have a successful Google Ads campaign, you should try advertising Bing search
On short term it might be interesting to use hot topics and actuality such as this years’ killer virus. But on the long run I think it is not interesting. Not for me. Proper keyword research is. Next year you already forgot about this year’s threat and another disease is on top of people’s mind.
Keyword research is the reason I am not writing today about Corona virus Read More »
There we are. Two weeks ago all was nice and pleasant. Now we find ourselves hostage in our own house, only leaving the guarded compound twice a week to get groceries in the few limited hours in morning, before all roads get blocked. The protest against election fraud have paralyzed the country. But I am
Dropping the hashtag #Expocruz2019 for business owners who are looking to do business in Bolivia. I am preparing an exclusive promo for an Google Ads Account Audit for Expositors at the trade convention that will take place from 20 – 29 September 2019 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Perhaps you will receive my
Dear Friend, Today I am an early riser. Normally I wake up with an alarm at six and must force myself to get up, but now I cannot sleep and I silently sneaked out of bed to make sure no-one wakes up in the house. My mind is boiling with ideas and things that I
Bolivia? WOW. An often-heard response when I tell people where I live. It is called geo-arbitrage… One of the many benefits of creating a stream of micropayments large enough to live from, is that you can choose to live anywhere you want. Most would prefer any place with palm trees and where the cost of
Now that came as a surprise! I assumed it was on a 18-month track. 14 months ago (To be more precise on 8 of February 2018) I created my first ever Google Adwords ad. Today Google’s advertising platform is called Google Ads, and I am creating and improving ads on a daily basis. I guess
There is a quick and simple automated solution and you can even get it for free But wait. Discover nine reasons why you are better off paying for an SSL certificate. You will be glad to pay and get an even bigger smile on your face. Website encryption is for banks and villains. That is
Why your website is losing 28% of potential visitors if HTTPS is not enabled Read More »
Stop wasting time. Consider it done with The Best Freelancers at Fiverr PRO. Get the Peace of Mind and Quality Time You Deserve. Specific tasks are easy to delegate. So why keep doing it yourself? The first time I ordered a gig on Fiverr I remember my next cup of coffee tasted a whole lot
Things are going well with Google Ads consulting. After I obtained my Google Adwords Search certificate more jobs came my way and I steadily start building a portfolio of clients. I have to be selective in accepting new clients, to meet my Agency Goals of Advertising for Sustainable Businesses. Yes. I recently upgraded my Upwork
How to become a Google Partner? Fast track to become one. Read More »
Sometimes things seem to make sense all of a sudden. Last year Freelancing on UpWork has been a great move and I truly enjoy writing publicity, creating and optimizing advertisements. I was so focussed on that I did not do too much about my own website, so heres an update. I have some digital projects
One wakes up one day and decides to start a career in advertising. Is it like that? Ask a group of toddlers what they want to do when the grow up. Few will tell you they are interested in advertising. When you asked me when I was little, I did not know what to become.
Advertising – just some thougts kind of my landing page back in 2018 Read More »
At least untill 3th of April 2019. I may oficially call myself a Google Adwords Search Certified professional. I was awarded with the certificate after passing the AdWords Fundamentals and Search Advertising assessments. Since January 2018 these Google certificates are issued by Googles Acedemy for Ads. Why did I want to become certified? It requires
It is incredible. The things I learn from my clients. I apply what I learn doing consultancies in my own projects. Visa versa, the things I learn doing developing my own endeavours are directly improving my clients results in every following assignment. A great example is Google AdWords. I hated paying for advertisements. I was
AdWords. The Symbiosis between Client and own Developments Read More »
This is going to be one of those brainfarts with no proper start or ending resulting from too many weeks of blogging absence, a baby sitting on my lap hitting the keyboard too, and ideas fighting to pop-up first. Soo Ill start whit what comes up first. I’m excited about hiring a virtual assistant. I
I just added Woocommerce to this site. Woocommerce is an e-commerce solution for WordPress websites and it works awesome. By default several payment options are available. It can be used to build an entire online retail space, or just to sell a few products. It is ideal for selling digital products. Including the service of
Do you wonder how to install a SSL certificate to upgrade you WordPress site to https and get that fancy green lock in your browser? I did not care too much about that. It was something for web shops. This year something changed. Google started punishing websites that do not have encryption and are accessible
How to install a SSL certificate to upgrade you WordPress site to https ? Read More »
This week from 22 of September until next Sunday 1st of October is the 42 edition being held of the largest tradeshow in the wide region around Bolivia in one of the most existing and fast growing cities of South America, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Expocruz once started as just another trade show for
I just changed my contact details because we moved from Costa Rica to Bolivia. That was quit some trip. It took almost two months to get fully settled, but here I am in my new home office. All you need is a laptop? Well, stable internet is pretty useful too. That is why I spent
After living over three years in Costa Rica, I realized that perhaps I might have learned some things that can be useful to a international public, especially for people that are going to live in Costa Rica soon. Perhaps you have just arrived and consider buying a car, you might be just in time to
How about transparency? Nobody is reading this anyway, are you? So far replies and comments are absent. That is ok. User generated content takes a long breath, I know that. I skipped a week or two in this second weekly real logs series. That can happen to the best I assume. To jump back on
Last week rushed by in a blink. All schedules overboard for a little vacation time so I will not write too much now. We’ll see. Contracted internal audits for management systems I did pick up my internal auditor certification last Monday. I am glad and perhaps a bit proud to have some previous acquired competences
Week 10, Monday How I totally missed out on Woocommerce. Woocommerce came out in 2011. I tried setting up ecommerce sites in 2010 and said, no more! After trying solutions for WordPress, Joomla and Magento. There was just not simple solution available to build a platform myself, so I gave up on it. No more
Sunday 10 Improve weekly planning by defining the week into 10 blocks of 3-hour work, perhaps you could call them sprints. An interesting approach to go through a full plan do check act cycle each week, with the 10 chapters of the high level structure in mind. Een bericht gedeeld door Jeroen Houdijk (@jeroen.houdijk) op
Monday Never stop learning. That is why I continue to develop myself and take an auditor training to be able to perform internal audits. The course is following the principles for management system audits as described in ISO 19011 and using ISO 9001:2015 as a reference standard to be audited for. The local, or as
Monday Published last week’s Real Logs. My previous series of weblogs I scheduled for every Tuesday afternoon. I am not sure if it really matters a lot at this stage when I publish, because I am writing basically for new visitors that find my weblog trough their search engine, or social media at the times
Accountability and community are two of the most sought after aspects that solopreneurs are looking for when working on their start-up. Perhaps that is why I propose by me, myself and I, to start using my weblogs in a most literal way. Keeping a log on the web. A real web Log. How original is
Is was a bumpy ride, but somehow I developed the skill to get blogs from zero to 10.000 monthly visitors. Will I be able to push this one up to 100.000 engaged visitors? Join me on that journey and subscribe to my weblog updates! On twitter I posted a screenshot from this blogs statistics, hitting
I am taking a quick break now from my Scientific Copy writing to write about Scientific Advertising. Currently I am finishing my thesis were I write about farming systems, value chains and strategic planning. Interesting topics for some other time perhaps. I should put some attention to my Research Gate profile. If you have not
Scientific Copy writing & Scientific Advertising Read More »
Have you seen the series Mad Man? This hit on Netflix is about an Advertising Agency and I loved it. Everything about it just shows off the efforts that were put in to make the series stand out from a mainstream production. The decors, the clothing, the cast. It all adds up to a very
Every blogger wants to get eyeballs to his content. I described before my long-term strategies to grow visitor numbers to my blog. I still think that is the best way, but now I face some challenges regarding the time frame to grow my list of subscribers. And, let’s be clear, there is no budget for
Difficulties converting Twitter followers into #blog #subscribers Read More »
Three months ago a started blogging as a strategy to grow organic traffic to my homepage. My site has been up for quite some time and it has had several metamorphoses and purposes since. In another blog I will show some of the history of my site. That brings me to today’s topic. The planning
Although farming has at first sight little to do with Search Engine Optimization, these fields of expertise have one thing in common… …it is all about growth. In agriculture, there are two parallel perceptions, or a clash of paradigms (P.T. Kidd, 2012) about how growth should be achieved. The conventional and the traditional methodology. I
The One Thing Agriculture and SEO have in Common Read More »
Writing a blogpost about blogging is as lame as trying to make money with the ‘writing about how to make money’ strategy. Too many people are doing it. Why would I even try to beat the competition? You need a good reason, a clear goal to do so. Now I have such an objective, it
The Art of Blogging: Learn my Organic Traffic Building Strategy Read More »
For my internship with CIRAD, I have the pleasure and honour to work with a group of organic farmers “Organicos el Cerro Negro”. During one of my visits, one of the associated organic farmers, Mainor Barrantes explained how to make organic substrate. He grows his own seedlings to sustainable produce organic vegetables on a mountain
[VIDEO] How to make Organic Substrate – Organicos el Cerro Negro Read More »
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We just moved to another house in Costa Rica, working from home-office in the nice tropical climate in Turrialba. Now you will find the new direction in our newsletter and (soon) on google maps as well.
This post is about Technical Debt and how this can accumulate easily… Just to show an example, In a previous blogpost that I wrote quickly using my tablet, I did not include all the references that I perhaps should have. Promising (myself) to include this links later on and add headings and so on, is
Technical Debt and the Urgent and Importance Matrix Read More »
Avoid managing multilingual content unless it is absolutely essential. Creating the content is at least double the work, or even more with several languages. Ofcourse an automated google tranlation is an option, but the output – without manual revision – will be full with errors. Technically, once a multilingual content management system had been installed,
It works! More or less. Today is thursday eight of september and I am in the middle of a field trip for my graduation project in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. From a hostel in Nosara, with the ocean waves crashing on the beach nearby. I sit down this evening to write a bit and fill some
In last week post I shared my first whiteboard video. Today I will show how I made this video with few resources. I did not use a whiteboard at all or make any drawings, because there is software that can help create such a video in a semi-automated way. Most offers on fiverr are based
How to make a Whiteboard Explainer Video with Fiverr Read More »
Today I published my first Whiteboard Explainer Video. I’m happy with the results and I think it is a much better video to explain the oncept of the High Level Strucuture than the old video. //youtu.be/2oUljQe8V3M In a next post I will explain the process to create this video, outsourcing almost everything with Fiverr. Now
Because organizations do not follow back… Reviewing my twitter account I realized that most organizations do not follow back. Following people, organizations or blogs are filling up your timeline, but have no effect on the reach of messages you send or the post you feature, if they are not exposed to your outings. So that
Following people versus organizations on Twitter Read More »
Time is a sensitive topic sometimes. A call for attention if something needs to be done swiftly, or for many other reasons, because time plays such a big role in our daily life. The time a post is published is registered with its timestamp. In this specific case, I want to publish this post next
Since 2004 I’ve been doing websites, blogs etc. But I never really took up blogging serious because I found it more interesting to create information websites (about personal finance), of to write specific blog about fishing. Now Houdyk.com has been up and running for a while as my portfolio site, because, you know, you need
Last month I started the LinkedIn Group: Sustainability Management Professionals. Sustainability Management Professionals is a place for discussion, sharing information and solutions for problems related with implementing Sustainability Management in small or medium organizations, in any industry. Sustainability metrics, Integrated Management Systems, Certification, Risk Management, Audits, Best Practices and Software are examples of relevant topics.
LinkedIn Group: Sustainability Management Professionals Read More »
Today I started a Podcast series by creating a videoblog on Youtube. Please subscribe to my Youtube channel at this url: //www.youtube.com/c/Houdyk-Video and leave your comments on the video’s. I was challenged to use a Youtube video as my application to a new fund for software development. Later on in this series I will share
The usage of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets to visit websites has increased a lot. It is funny to see the changes is browsing behouviour. Internet Explorer for example, has dropped from over 90 percent to less than 5 percent users for regular website visits. Google has announced to punish websites that
Today I used Face Your Manga to create a few avatars for my websites users. Trough wordpress’ Gravatar, each Avatar gets linked with an emailaccount. This way at the end of each post, will appear such an Avatar. Here you see mine. Funny no? This way, a website gets more personal, without publishing private photo’s.
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