Be Careful Of Who You Hire For SEO
I have written many times about good ways to help your site get found by the search engines. This post is about the bad ones. I usually get my share of “Blog Spam”. That is, people or bots who post comments on my blog that usually have nothing to do with the content. These folks […]
How Much Information Does Google Have On You?
I often think about how much information is collected and shared about me about my online activities. I try to keep myself as anonymous as possible when browsing. I use Firefox, keep cookies turned off except where necessary and then only allow them for the session so they get deleted as soon as I close […]
What In The World Is There To Write About?
Today seems to be one of those days where I just can’t seem to get my mind around a topic to write about. Web design and promotion is something that I read quite a bit about and I am constantly saving addresses to use in this blog so I have several ideas for a post, […]
Simpsonizeme Not Working
Many people have been visiting my post Friday Just For Fun Site – Turn Your Photo Into a Simpsons Character and most have been searching for something like “Simpsonizeme Not Working”. In fact, it’s been my most popular post ever and it makes me think that the Simpsonizeme site is just too busy to work […]
Hotlinking Images – Don’t Do It
There is a post on the blogoscoped site dealing with people getting high rankings by hotlinking images from other sites. It’s an interesting idea, but now that the word is out I’m sure search engines will change and this practice will not work any more. In case you don’t know, a hotlinked image is one […]
Why Do We Need A Website?
Today I’m meeting with a potential new customer. This is a group of people who are divided on whether they need a site or not. A couple of them are pushing hard to have one and they have asked me to speak to them today. Rather than giving them the hard sell and telling them […]
Free Your Phone
Being a big supporter of Open Source Projects and with all of the hoopla around the iPhone these days I thought I would give my small bit of publicity to the Openmoko.org Portal Site. OpenMoko is an Open Source project to create the world’s first free mobile phone operating system. It is designed to “Free […]
Happy 4th of July
It’s Independence Day here in the US. Wishing everyone a Happy and Safe 4th of July. Here’s where I’ll be
The Power Of Words
There are some words and terms that I wish would just Go Away. A friend of mine sent me an ad for a job recently where they were looking for an “Internet Guru” to work on their website. The word “Guru” to me ranks right up there with “Foolproof” in that as soon as you […]
Giving Away A Great Product To Make Money – Pentaho
Here’s a great example of giving away a great product to make money. Pentaho is an open source business intelligence application and if you are thinking about buying new software for your business you need to check this out. It’s free and they have some great demos available. According to Wikipedia business intelligence (BI) is […]
