FebruaryFeb 10 Tuesday 09
Google Keywords Part 4: Targeting
In the last entry in our series on Google keywords, we talked about assembling a list of potential keyword targets. Today we'll move on to the next phase, deciding which keywords to target.
By now, you should have repeated the steps in part three until you have a long …
When It's Time To Change...
If you've been here before, you'll notice a major change in the look of this site. Yes, this blog has reached puberty.
After about a month of writing this and looking at it every day, I decided I had outgrown the old theme, Split Personality by Wordpress Diva. I still …
FebruaryFeb 6 Friday 09
Google Keywords Part 3: Ideas
Continuing our series on Google Keywords, today we'll start assembling our list of potential targets.
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FebruaryFeb 4 Wednesday 09
Google Keywords Part 2: Tools
The next step in our continuing series on Google keywords consists of assembling the tools we'll be using for research. This is very straightforward and easy, and we'll be sticking with free tools, for those just getting started.
- Download Firefox. This is not a matter …
Google Keywords Part 1: Introduction
After some deliberation, I've decided to write a series about how to research and use Google keywords. Quite frankly, I was unsure whether to share this information. But I don't think something so simple should be reserved for a circle of web "gurus" who happened to …
FebruaryFeb 2 Monday 09
Monday Mashup
Every week a handful of posts catch my attention, so I thought I'd start collecting a few of them for you. Here are a few that stood out this week:
JanuaryJan 30 Friday 09
How to Back Up your Site in cPanel (Video Tutorial)
Here's a quick video tutorial on backing up your self-hosted blog or website using the cPanel administration interface.
Required:
Hosting account with cPanel interface
Optional:
Addition FTP server for remote backup
YouTube made it a bit fuzzy, so I recommend …
JanuaryJan 28 Wednesday 09
What Good Tech Support Looks Like
You may have noticed that I am a affiliate of web hosting company
JanuaryJan 27 Tuesday 09
Why EveryBlock Rules the Neighborhood
Sometimes genius lies not in creating something, but in putting things together in a new way.
That's the guiding principle behind the mashup - the assemblage of existing pieces into a new, derivative work. In the visual art world this is as old as collage; probably …
JanuaryJan 26 Monday 09
Why is Mashable Obsessed with Twitter?
If you've read this blog before, you know I'm no fan of Twitter, the over-hyped tin can on a string of the 21st Century.
But I'll admit it's got its place. Yes, I've even got an account. I have a handful of friends who post the occasional useful or interesting update - …
JanuaryJan 24 Saturday 09
Five Favorite Domain Name Tools
A friend wrote in for advice on searching for a domain name, so here are a few of my favorite tools to get going:
Nameboy Domain Name Generator is the industry standard of domain name suggestion. Simply give it a primary word, an optional secondary word and click Go. …
JanuaryJan 23 Friday 09
Obama's Pick: Hope for the FCC?
The festivities are over, and we have our 44th President. And
JanuaryJan 19 Monday 09
How I Gained Traffic and Lost My Soul: Google Garbage(TM) Post-mortem
Last Thursday I detailed a rather questionable technique for achieving a quick increase in web traffic through the use of Google Trends. In a nutshell it involves using Google Trends to find rapidly-rising search topic with little competition, getting up a quick and …
JanuaryJan 17 Saturday 09
Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger: Hero of Flight 1549
Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger
Veteran pilot Chesley B. 'Sully' Sullenberger III a hero after splashdown saved every life on board
(afety Reliability Methods/Handout/Reuters)
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Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009)[1] was an realist painter, and regionalist artist. He was one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People" due to his popularity with the American public. He was the …