by Scott | Mar 3, 2008 | Computers - How to, Productivity
After reformatting my computer, I posted about easily editing the “save attachment as” dialog box to enable me to save Outlook file attachments in the folders of my choice. That was a big help, but only solved half the problem, because without installing...
by Scott | Mar 1, 2008 | Google, Industry News
An attorney got in touch with me a couple of months ago after reading a blog post I had written at SEMpdx. Google had just drastically lowered visibility of the option where new advertisers could opt out of the Content Network in Google AdWords, and I was compelled to...
by Scott | Mar 1, 2008 | SEO, Wordpress
I was commenting on a blog this morning when I saw that there were a number of comment author links that were NoFollowed, and a number that were not. The blog owner was singling out comments for approval to allow the passing of link juice. That reminded me to check a...
by Scott | Feb 29, 2008 | Google
Have you ever tried to remove a Google Analytics account? What a pain in the neck this is, and I really can’t understand why. The other day I ran up against my account limit of having too many Analytics accounts associated with my Gmail address. Going through my...
by Scott | Feb 26, 2008 | Conferences, Education, Events, Local news
There are approximately 72 hours remaining for you to obtain a ticket to SearchFest ’08 at more than half off of the non-member door price. Here are the steps… Join SEMpdx Register for the conference. (Price goes up slightly March 1st) Before checkout...
by Scott | Feb 26, 2008 | Domains, Industry News
I wrote a few weeks ago on SEMpdx about the fact that if you searched for a domain name on Network Solutions, and then didn’t buy it that moment for their extremely high price, that you cannot go register it elsewhere, because they basically lock it up. Now it...
by Scott | Feb 23, 2008 | Site Reviews, Video
This is a 15 minute review of all of my SEO fundamentals as they apply to a handwriting analysis / expert witness website including my recommendation for a site conversion to WordPress. While waiting for the Revver video to go live, here’s a flash...
by Scott | Feb 22, 2008 | Google
There’s apparently a bug in Google PageRank at this very moment, causing a PR0 to appear for many pages from many geographic locations, and I had a brief moment of panic. 😉 I just happened to notice that one of my sites was a PR0 – That was odd, so I...
by Scott | Feb 21, 2008 | Link Building, SEO
About a month ago I decided to try a new link building tool called Linkvana, and I wrote about it on my blog. Now, about 30 days later, I AM still impressed. I HAVE seen ranking improvements, spidering frequency HAS improved, and all can be traced directly related to...
by Scott | Feb 21, 2008 | Google, Industry News
This sounds to me like a great thing, being able to bypass all of the bureaucracy involved in bringing fast high speed wireless to rural areas with land lines. There’s a reason we in the United States are NOT the worlds leader in high speed internet, much less...
by Scott | Feb 20, 2008 | SEO-101, Site Reviews, Video
This site is not exactly what I would call “stellar” but in just under 10 minutes I point out a few things that might be educational to some people trying to take shortcuts on the fast track to success with MFA (Made for Adsense) sites and affiliates. Take...
by Scott | Feb 20, 2008 | Conferences, Education, SEO, Social Networking
In January of 2007 I joined StomperNet under the belief that I would get the personal attention of their world-class faculty. I assumed that for the nearly $10,000 I was going to pay for the year, I would not only learn everything I wanted to know, but I would...