New Client – My Gym
I’m working with a new client called My Gym. They are a childrens fitness franchise, offering “Mommy and Me” type classes for kids and their parents. They started in California, and have grown to over 150 locations around the country and around the...Google is dancing
Google is doing another update, and it seems that their index is getting bigger. I noticed this because a search term I watch closely has gone from 9 million results found, to over 21 million total. Another has gone from about 25 million to over 41 million results....Oregon spyware story
KGW channel 8 found me online as an internet consultant, and I’ve agreed to help them with a spyware story that will air in Portland in November 2005. We begin filming next Tuesday morning. This weekend, in preparation for the demonstration, I’m finding...Is your Bank login still secure?
According to an article in Information Week magazine on August 23, 2005, “Some of the biggest banks have abandoned the practice of posting their online account log-in screens on SSL-protected pages in an effort to boost page response time.” In English,...Webmaster World conference
Today is the last day to get the discount at the Webmaster World conference in Las Vegas in November (PubCon 10). This year’s Vegas event is more heavily geared towards search. In fact, there are those that say if you’re not there for Search Engine...Spyware on the local news
I got another phone call from KGW channel 8 wanting to do a local spyware story. I first talked to reporter Randy Neves about a month ago. Their original plan was to give a computer to someone and see how long it took to become polluted while online with broadband....Norton is horrible
Today a customer called me that had purchased Norton System Works 2005 at Office Depot, and now a week later was getting error messages regarding “An unauthorized beta version” of his Symantec product. In case there’s any question, I have to be sure...Are others cashing in on your good name?
*updated – 2-25-05 The text of the article below is no longer accurate, and the rules are changing again on March 1st at Yahoo. Currently, on both Yahoo and Google you CAN bid on competitors trademarked names, but you cannot use the trademarked term in the ad...Latest Google news
You know, Google is really poised to take over the computing world now. I’ve long realized that “He who owns the search engines will rule the world”, and that’s why I got interested years ago. Now however, that’s becoming even more true....My tag line, “Taking IT Personally” is registered elsewhere
As a computer consultant, I thought my tag line “Taking IT Personally” was pretty clever. Well it was, and apparently it’s now registered as a trademark by someone else. Although I’ve used it for nearly 4 years, they registered it now, and own...Webpage names – Dashes or underscores?
What’s better for getting found in the Search Engines, dashes or underscores? This – http://www.domainname.com/page_name_here.html or this – http://www.domainname.com/page-name-here.html ? Well, now we know…the answer is….Dashes...
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