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Geek Culture: Drawbacks and Solutions

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There are a million great things about being a geek, or at least being involved in the technologically savvy culture. There are so many opportunities to learn skills, enjoy life, meet friends, and even make money or make a career out of notably geeky things like playing computer games or being a computer program.

But there are some drawbacks, too, that often sit steadily on the physical and emotional spectrums, because of the nature of the lifestyle. You can look at things like general malaise, sore eyes, carpal tunnel, social depression, and unearned anxiety, and see that there’s a reference point for those condition within the geek culture.

General Malaise

If you find that you don’t feel good for an extended period of time, there’s probably a reason for that. Geeks, like anyone else, can go through funks for countless reasons, but geeks, in particular, have to deal with certain kinds of stress because of the nature of their typical activities. If you can’t figure out what’s wrong on your own, call a doctor, or find a doctor online to talk to about your specific conditions.

Sore Eyes

Staring at a computer screen for many hours at a time can cause eye strain quite easily if you aren’t careful. The computer screen should be a certain brightness, and a certain distance away so that you can see everything clearly without damaging your vision, but overuse at any level will eventually cause discomfort. The best solution to this is to have a consistent setup as well as taking regular breaks from the screen.

Carpal Tunnel

And the doom of many geeks, if you eventually have issues with carpal tunnel, you’re not alone. The good thing is that a lot of new computers have keyboards that don’t tickle your muscles the same way that they used to, so there isn’t quite as much of a chance of permanent damage as their used to be. Plus, we have things like wrist guards that prevent some of the micro abrasions and repetitive motion injuries of the past.

Social Depression

Though everyone occasionally goes through a bout or two of social depression, sometimes geeks have it the worst because it’s occasionally a bit of a lonely culture. You can keep yourself entertained gaming by yourself, but when you come out of the daze, it can be depressing if no one is there with you.

Unearned Anxiety

If you’re the type of geek that follows the news while you’re spending time online, you may enter the zone of fear and anxiety, feeling like the world is going to come crashing down on you. The truth is, it’s not, and if you unplug from the stressful news, you’ll find the rest of life comes a bit easier a piece at a time.

5 Tips To Maintain a Top Notch Web Presence

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You might think it’s a bit overwhelming to try to keep your web presence at the top of its game, but it’s not impossible. You already have the site, which means that your core idea is in place.
After that, it’s simply a matter of maintaining what you’ve already created. To do this, follow these five tips and enjoy the fruits of your labor: staying responsive will be of utmost importance, updated content will always be king, consistency among platforms will help people stay familiar with you, time efficiency is central to user experience, and always respond to feedback immediately.

Web presence

It’s All About Staying Responsive

Responsive, in the case of a web presence these days, is all about having a web design that flows between platforms. Platforms in this instance mean cell phones, mobile devices, laptops, tablets, desktops, and every iteration in between. Your content, graphics, interface, and clickable links all have to share various amounts of space, so great responsive web design is going to be the only path you have to make sure everyone can get to what they want.

Keep Updating Your Content

Another way to make sure your website stays relevant is by constantly updating all of your actual text. If you pay attention to Google search algorithms, you’ll find that all of them are always crawling through platforms to find out what is most relevant to people who are searching for certain kinds of text. More and better text equals more and better attention to your website. [Read more…]

4 Signs Your Blog is Asking for a Penalty

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For the most part, only search engine optimization (SEO) specialists know about Google penalties, but that shouldn’t be the case. If your website or blog practices “black hat tricks” (tricks that falsely improve your search engine result rankings), Google’s algorithms are almost always capable of catching them at some point. If they do, and it’s deemed intentional, then you can get slapped with a Google penalty. In the worst cases, this removes your site from that search engine’s results completely.

There are many ways to avoid a penalty, but they all have to do with avoiding black hat tricks. Unfortunately, many unsuspecting bloggers hire a “black hat” SEO agency unaware that the tactics being used are illegal. Other times, a newbie developer practices these tricks themselves, not knowing that they’re “illegal.” Here are some of the biggest black hat strategies to avoid: [Read more…]