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11 Feb This post is from from my other blog here 
I received a “threatening” email yesterday from Jeremy Wyss at Peak Studios that I just have to share here after posting it last night on Twittter. Spurred on by ReTweets from internet marketers like Todd Mintz, Greg Boser, Aaron Chronster, David Mihm Michael Dorausch (OK, sorry, that’s too much work, but here are dozens more ) I ended up getting over 500 visitors to my old 2008 post from the Retweets alone in one night.
Now I’m not always this petty, but God dammit I know when I’m right, and I’m not gonna back ...
25 Jan This post is from from my other blog here 
We just fixed an instance of a domain which appeared fine when visited directly, but when coming from the search results, all users were being redirected. Because of my recent personal virus experience redirecting my visits from search results I was thrown off at first, but it turned out that all users coming from search engines to that website were being redirected in a completely different way. I found that the following code was placed in the .htaccess file at the root of the domain. : RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*google.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ask.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yahoo.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*excite.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*altavista.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ...
15 Jan This post is from from my other blog here 
My trip to the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was unlike last year, or any other years I’ve gone, because I cut myself short on time. The organization of the show changed quite a bit, and in the past, all of the breakthrough inventions were situated in one giant hall, over at the Sands Expo Center. After last year’s downsizing of the show, I was able to make it through that entire emerging technology area in just one day, and I found myself with a lot of time on my hands, so this year I decided to only come for one day. Little did ...
12 Jan This post is from from my other blog here 
We’ve had another web hosting customer screw things up for everyone else on their shared mail server by sending unsolicited e-mail, which is against our terms of service. I’ve written about this before, more than once, and this user has received no warnings, gets no second chances, and their web hosting account, including all e-mail service has been permanently removed from our system. What Happened?
A user on a shared hosting account innocently sent out an email message to their customer list. At least one of their customers at a Comcast account, and one at a Hotmail account, reported the message as ...
06 Jan This post is from from my other blog here 
Google is all over the map in the way it displays search results, but it looks like SEO, web-hosting, and web design are not! Well, technically they’re still “on the map” but the map is not showing up any more in Google searches. Yes, in case you missed the news, Google local map results are not being shown any more for web designers, for search marketing firms, or web hosting. Why? It’s still unclear, and to my knowledge, there’s been no definitive explanation from Google. As a local webhost / search marketer / developer, I’d like to point out that this sort of… well… sucks ...
29 Dec This post is from from my other blog here 
Before Google’s announcement that the speed at which your site loads for visitors “matters”, we’d all heard it said repeatedly that it did NOT matter for organic rankings, but that it may someday, and it seems that day arrived early last month. When I rolled out the SEO Automatic review, I chose to include the checking of site compression, and showing file sizes, even though the collective wisdom of the SEO industry was that your page load time was only a factor for your Google Adwords Quality Score, and for the user experience, but it was not an organic ranking ...
28 Dec This post is from from my other blog here 
I’ve frequently been asked if I can point to a good example of Twitter marketing, and it’s rare, but I saw one first hand this weekend. Gary Vaynerchuck twittered that he would offer free shipping for the entire year of 2010, if the New York Jets were to beat the Indianapolis Colts! Fat chance of that happening, I figured, but I still thought it was a cool gamble, so I retweeted what Gary said.
the Colts laid down for the Jets by removing their starters, and the ...
22 Dec This post is from from my other blog here 
Yesterday afternoon PDXTC had a report that a website we were hosting was down, but the server administrators said that it was up. An hour later, we had a second report of another website down, and the admins claimed it was up as well, and that’s where I got involved. I was working from home, and checking both websites came up blank – page not found – through my Comcast internet connection. I looked up the users FTP information, and I was unable to login top either account using FTP either, simply getting an “unable to connect” message. One common connection between the two ...
21 Dec This post is from from my other blog here 
There were a few changes at Google this month which I’ve been pointing out to clients, so I’m posting them here too. I added the month to my title, because I expect we’ll be seeing a lot more of these types of game changers as time goes on. You & I See Different Search Results On December 4, while I was in Los Angeles at an Affiliate Convention session, a rumble went through the crowd after someone shouted out “Hey, Google is showing personalized results to everyone whether they’re signed in or not”! Now there are search industry pundits that think it’s a good thing, ...
09 Dec This post is from from my other blog here 
I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302’s. Worse, WP won’t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page permalinks (URLs) useless. In this short video I’ll show you exactly what not to do -( besides assume that WordPress will work the way it’s supposed to). I’ve written about WP hurting search rankings before, and while changing the LAST part of a permalink does now seem to 301 correctly, in this case, changing the permalink of a parent page causes ...
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