When it comes to getting your website noticed on Google, it’s all about link building, getting links (especially dofollow links) to your site. I just stumbled upon this great article here, listing a million and one ways to build up back links. Most definitely worth checking out.
Many years ago I went to University in Bournemouth at the NCCA. Over the last few decades they’ve been kicking out some great talent, many of whom have gone to work on Bafta or other award winning projects. Call me biased, because I went there, but then it get me a job a Sony Computer Entertainment where upon I worked on the SingStar team, which won a Bafta in 2004 (for the first ever Interactive New Talent Award). 
One of my New Year resolutions has been to keep better track of my finances. As such I’ve started using the excellent accounting package MoneyDance, which is available on Windows, Mac and Linux, for a mere $50. The big stumbling block I had, was importing bank statements into the package; there’s no way I’m typing every transaction in. Although MoneyDance can connect directly to some banks to retrieve statements and can import common file formats like QIX, OFX, QFX and CSV, none of these were readily available from my bank. I’m with the UK bank Smile, which is an online banking subsidiary of the Co-Operative banking group. Smile merely give you an online HTML page per bank statement, that’s it. I’m no longer smiling. 
Being a resourceful programmer, I set about the problem and put together some code to import Smile bank statements into MoneyDance. In brief, this involves saving your bank statement as a HTML page, converting the page to XHTML, then running an XSLT transform to convert it to the universal OFX format, which can then be imported into MoneyDance.
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Amazon now have DanceStar Party listed for pre-orders. Development is still rather busy, but almost no crunch, thanks to some good management. Not long left now, all quite exciting really. With a bit of luck, this game will be everywhere in a few months time.
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I mentioned previously I have been busy coding away on a new website, and at last, now I believe it has reached a point where it can be announced. The site is www.HiFiHunter.com – Second Hand Hi-Fi Search Engine. It is a specialist search engine for finding the best second hand or ex demo Hi-Fi and Home Cinema bargains. Its goal is to be a single portal for finding items for sale on classifieds sites (like Gumtree), Hi-Fi forums, eBay and dealer sites.
Think of this as the start of a public alpha phase, where the key functionality is in place, but some rough edges still remain and need ironing out. Please check it out, find some bargains and send any me feedback, critique or bug reports.
I would just like to apologise for the lack of updates lately. This has partly been due to time away on holiday and partly due to time spent updating my other websites; www.RoydAudio.com and an exciting new yet to be launched site. RoydAudio.com has come a long way other the last few months, with many updates, including many reviews of Royd loudspeakers and a new ‘Buy Royds’ section, which uses the power of the eBay Partner Network and its API to present all the Royd speakers currently on eBay. This last feature is a great tool for visitors to find Royd speakers to buy (a very popular request) and also doubles up as a good way to monetise the site, covering my hostings fees and costs of source material.
My new web project is also Hi-FI related and is still heavily in development, but taking shape well. It leverage’s a lot of funky tech from across the web and I hope it will be a very useful resource and also a nice little money earner for me. Watch this space!