Year Three: Rich's Notes and some follow up talk on SEO

Rich Taylor's excellent crib notes on how to operate the Joomla Content Management System (CMS) are here. These are mainly of interest to year three students on the production desk at the moment. They are very clear, very useful. 'How to' crib notes on technical stuff are very useful for building traffic to your blog (re: SEO) so the more of these you can all make on things like - I dunno - how to correctly frame shots when doing video, then you will get a lot of credit and a lot of traffic and page rank (eventually). I measured the traffic on Rich's blog and it is now in the top one million (and rising). That is pretty good seeing how the blog is new, has no page rank (yet) - page rank takes ages to get, and you need a lot of in-coming links. The whole university of Winchester is only ranked at 250,000th - and it has page six (just because it is a university). Most other student blogs rank from 10 millionth (that's the lowest that Alexa will measure) up to 5 millionth. I mention this because in production - especially - there are times in the day when you are just waiting for things to happen, and I personally find that side of thing exhausting. Then since WINOL is basically all held together with bits of string and elastic bands - there will be moments when tutors are of dealing with some unforseen crisis or other. So doing a bit of SEO - either in the form of making these 'how to' items ('linkbait') or just in say going to Wikipedia and linking from that to your blog, or submitting your blogto search engine directories or emailing other blogs and doing 'link exchange' is a sort of harmless/useful thing to do.

On this sort of theme we have now got booked access to the studio on Tuesdays so if anyone wants to practice in there, or just do any photography with good lighting, then that's available. Speak I think first of all to Brian. We filmed a very nice thing last year with students reading out the NUJ code of conduct last year. It was a nice thing for the show reel, so anything like that.