by Scott | Mar 28, 2008 | Computers - How to, Productivity
How many add-ons, toolbars, bookmarks, plugins, and other tweaks have you made to your default Firefox installation? If you’re a specialty user, you may have several dozen add ons, and in my own case, I’ve got 27 separate Firefox extensions alone, (which I...
by Scott | Mar 26, 2008 | Computers - How to
I’m a board member of the Oregon Computer Consultants Association and at each monthly meeting, there’s a few minutes where people ask questions about strange behavior, and get help from their peers. Well, the meeting was last night (Ben Lee from Intel) ,...
by Scott | Mar 25, 2008 | SEO, SEO-101, Site Reviews
I was asked to do a free site review of Flightstoswitzerland.com examining some of the many possibilities why the site doesn’t rank very well. It’s basic SEO-101, but with a little bit more thrown in for good measure…
by Scott | Mar 20, 2008 | Computers - How to, Local news, Web Hosting
Qwest Internet service here in Portland Oregon has apparently begun to randomly block port 25 for its customers, just like Comcast did last year. This renders users helpless to send email using their own domain from their web host’s email server like most...
by Scott | Mar 18, 2008 | Google
A post this morning on Sphinn really got my fire going… Apparently, there is a document floating around out there that is supposedly a set of guidelines for the search quality team at Google. Whether it’s legit or not, you can tell that someone put a lot...
by Scott | Mar 13, 2008 | Link Building, Technology News, Tools
There’s been a nice addition to one of my favorite pieces of link building helper software with this morning’s update. It just keeps getting better and better to help your employees make their link building time actually count, and actually build a couple...
by Scott | Mar 13, 2008 | Computers - How to, Microsoft, Productivity
Last night I was working ofn a few things on my wifes laptop while we were watching a TV show, and like always, I didn’t “put everything away” and I left a Notepad document open with a few notes, and a few browser windows. This morning when I got up,...
by Scott | Mar 12, 2008 | Cell Phones & PDA's
When I first got my Blackberry, I was stunned and appalled that it would not sync with my email on the server. How ridiculous! This meant that if I did not manually delete my mail from my phone, (choices were one at a time, or “entire day”) then over time...
by Scott | Mar 11, 2008 | Site Reviews
This covers most of the basics – As always, whether you’re the site owner, or an internet marketer, do feel free to ask any specific questions about this video here, or start any discussion points…
by Scott | Mar 6, 2008 | Conferences
As if I needed another reason to be glad I’m attending Elite Retreat this year, Shoemoney has announced that WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg is going to be speaking. I feel that I owe a lot of my personal and client success to my use of the best blogging...
by Scott | Mar 6, 2008 | Conferences
I’ll be filling out my speaker proposal soon for Webmaster World Pubcon 2008, because the date has just been announced, and it’s being moved back to November. Maybe if I submit early I can get a topic more exciting than web hosting and SEO issues 😉 PubCon...
by Scott | Mar 5, 2008 | Google
I guess no matter who you are, it’s easy to forget about the small stuff -Like renewing your SSL certificate to safely collect millions of dollars hourly… I tried to log into a Google Adwords account today, and this is what I saw – An expired...