by Scott | Sep 21, 2006 | General interest, Social Networking
A colleague wanted to join a local business group in his neighborhood, and heard about the Portland Business Alliance He looked them up online, and then mistakenly joined the Portland Area Business Association instead, and then he sent me a link to his member listing....
by Scott | Sep 21, 2006 | Web Hosting
As an Oregon web host with 5 servers located in downtown Portland, I cannot afford to have any down time, or have any delays in getting help when I need it. I need those machines running 24/7 with reliable backup, remote monitoring, and emergency recovery assistance....
by Scott | Sep 19, 2006 | Google
I’ve tried posting this three times in the Google Analytics help group, but there’s a bug that’s preventing many users post from showing up, and I guess i’m affected. I’ve even tried creating a new username, but still had no luck…...
by Scott | Sep 18, 2006 | Link Building, SEO, SEO-101
When I took my first Search Engine Workshop class with John Alexander and Robin Nobles, Ginette Degner taught a session of the class. Since then, each time I’ve returned to SEW, I learned something insightful from her. She’s written a great article here...
by Scott | Sep 18, 2006 | Google, Link Building
Google’s finally done another backlink update over the weekend, and as of Saturday, yourinbound link numbers should show a healthy increase. Go to Google and search for “site:yourdomain.com” (without the quotes) and you will not get a list of every...
by Scott | Sep 15, 2006 | Google
If you use Google’s personalized home page, you might notice a new feature that’s been added…”tabs” for organization. How cool! When did this come out, and why haven’t I read about it? I’ve long resisted the use of an RSS...
by Scott | Sep 14, 2006 | Google, Search Engines
Yep, you read that right, Google has signed a deal with Intuit that will allow users of Quickbooks 2007 to be able to enroll in, and even manage a Google Adwords campaign right from inside the Quickbooks software on their PC. They won’t even need to go to Google...
by Scott | Sep 12, 2006 | General interest, SEO-101
I’ve added a new article about writing your description meta tags, and I’ve placed it in my new SEO101 area. The article is short, and like everything in SEO101, it’s written with the beginner in mind. You can read the description tips article here...
by Scott | Sep 12, 2006 | Local news, SEO
I am proud to be affiliated with a recently formed new group made up of Portland’s top search marketers. Our goal is to increase the visibility of Portland Oregon as a search engine marketing industry hub, and to educate Portland’s business community about...
by Scott | Sep 12, 2006 | SEO, SEO-101, Social Networking
Danny Sullivan will be keynoting at the November 2006 PubCon convention in Las Vegas. I’ve always liked Pubcon, with it’s more intimate atmosphere (only 1000 or so attendees compared to several thousand!) and here’s another reason you should go, if...
by Scott | Sep 2, 2006 | Computers - How to, Spam prevention, Viruses and Scams
To say “spam is out of control” is not really accurate, so let me give you some figures that will put it in perspective. For my own domain pdxtc.com, August 2006 brought me these numbers… 19,306 total incoming emails (and we only have 9 addresses!)...
by Scott | Sep 1, 2006 | SEO, Social Networking, Web 2.0
By now, you’ve likely heard of Digg. If not, you soon will. It was even mentioned on ABC News yesterday, and Alexa has ranked them as the 95th most visited website in the world this past month. Digg is a “social news site” that is taking the world by...