by Scott | Jul 5, 2007 | SEO
One of the sessions at Danny Sullivan’s Advanced SMX show involved a panel of experts all sharing one “secret tactic” or other helpful search tip that they might use, and would recommend. The cool thing about it was that Danny put a moratorium on all...
by Scott | Jul 4, 2007 | SEO
Jim Boykins Internet marketing blog has a great article about getting your pages out of the supplemental index using your own internal linking structure. In the article, he gives the mathematical formula for Google PageRank – PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) +...
by Scott | Jul 2, 2007 | Web 2.0
This past week has been a huge investment in time for me, joining and learning everything I could about various Web 2.0 communities. I have several clients that will really benefit from participation in these communities, and I can’t coach very well if...
by Scott | Jun 29, 2007 | Viruses and Scams
There has been a huge increase in the number of viruses I have been receiving via e-mail over the past 2 1/2 weeks. At first I thought it was just me, but an Oregon Computer Consultants meeting the other night, I asked around, and others had noticed the same trend....
by Scott | Jun 26, 2007 | Local news
Tomorrow in downtown Portland, there is a great web seminar going from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. As a member of SEMpdx, you can save 20% on registration too. A $50 investment in the future of your website is well worth your time, and if you are attending, please look me up...
by Scott | Jun 22, 2007 | Local news
OCCA Monthly Meeting (free and open to the public) Title: Lets Talk Time and Money Date: Tuesday June 26, 2007 Time: 7:00-8:30PM (No-host dinner at 6:00PM) Speaker: Steve Shank Place: Rheinlander German Restaurant 5035 NE Sandy Blvd Portland OR 97213-1941 We will be...
by Scott | Jun 21, 2007 | Web Design
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to automatically create your own theme for WordPress without having to know CSS, or PHP? Have you ever had to look through dozens or hundreds of themes to find one that you like? Then when you finally decide on something,...
by Scott | Jun 20, 2007 | Google
Google created the custom search engine to allow site owners to easily add a search box to their websites, but it also allows you to do a couple of other things. You get to choose what websites you want to be included in the search engine. You can invite others to...
by Scott | Jun 19, 2007 | Education
Last year I attended the Internet strategy forum in downtown Portland, and came away with mixed feelings as to whether or not it was worth my time. There was little talk about search from other then have few speakers, and instead focus on many of the broader aspects...
by Scott | Jun 18, 2007 | Google
My city Portland is included as one of the cities for planning your public transportation trip in the new Google Transit section. Only a few cities from nine states (California, Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington) are...
by Scott | Jun 14, 2007 | Google
Dear Google, I need clarification. Am I putting myself or our clients in jeopardy by buying or selling text link ads, or are you really just trying to filter them out of the ranking algorithm? In April, Matt Cutts from Google asked on his blog for people to report...
by Scott | Jun 14, 2007 | Microsoft
What an aggravating two days this has been for many people, thanks to a Microsoft Update. I got phone calls or e-mails from several different people about the same issues I had, due to yesterday morning’s update. Here’s a “workaround” for your...