Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port is expanding into a certified consulting program. I am not one for being overworked and overbooked by any means and believe that balance and living are more important than money, so at first I judged the book negatively by its cover. (that is never a good thing…) Finally curiosity [...]
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Google AdManager
So I haven’t given Google AdManager yet. (probably a bad way to start a post about it, but…) But I started an account and I receive the announcement emails. And on Sept 24 (2009) Google announced the Google AdManager youtube channel. I love tutorials.
Google changing up its local search algorithm
Google has been making changes to its local search algorithm (the formula that determines rankings). Google is, among other things, penalising category spam. Here is a good article on that: Google’s Recent Changes to its Local Algorithm As of October 2009, Google has also changed from the 10-pack to a “lucky” 7-pack. Here is another [...]
Google is slap happy
Google wants quality. Opposing their desire is the desire of many to make money quickly without providing much value. Do that and Google will slap you. The solution to not being slapped? Provide value. That is the basic message of this Adcents.com post “how to overcome the google slap”
WordPress Security
Website security is always on the mind of web developers. I know it is always one of my top concerns. here is a wordpress dev blog post about recent (and age old) ideas on security: keeping wordpress secure
Managing Customer Expections in SEO
*frustrated exhale* I have been ranting about frustrations with client expectations lately. One of the areas (for me) where this is the most frustrating is in the realm of SEO. Clients have all kinds of seo misconceptions that they are so sure of when the reality is totally the opposite. So today I am googling [...]
Keyword Meta Tags are Useless – Ha! I told you so.
People’s misconceptions about the workings of search engine optimisation are rampant. A little knowledge is usually a very dangerous, or (in this case) annoying thing. Clients and potential clients always have questions about meta tags or they are completely sure that meta tags are some kind of magic and they need them even though I [...]
A quick and simple [hopefully] guide to Google Adwords
Google is often very good at explaining the complex in simple terms. Here is a brilliantly constructed interactive guide to Google Adwords Settings
OH BOY! These Windows Keyboard Shortcuts will impress
So you thought you were special because you knew shortcuts like “alt+tab” to switch between open windows, function keys, “j” and “k” to navigate between emails in gmail and “ctrl+tab”/”ctrl+shift+tab” in firefox to switch between tabs? I bet you impressed a few “regular” people with your superior nerd skills. But that was just the tip [...]
“No To ALL” hack – Thank you Labnol.org!
Ok. So I am doing a little project for a client and I was copying some pictures from one folder to another to re-size them. The destination folder already had some of the pictures already re-sized and I did not want to copy over them. Windows (I am not at my Linux PC at the [...]