Recently I had a problem with one of my special project websites getting attacked, notably the “send to a friend” tool. argh… Likely attempted spammers. I wish spammers a long and slow death.
We noticed some pages getting a lot of traffic that shouldn’t be getting a lot of traffic,…
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It’s been a long road for LessonsUnlimited.com, and now after nearly 3 years, it’s received a new face. Actually a complete renovation. Originally we did a quick and dirty launch using some website software we bought for classified ad systems, to get the site running.
It picked up in users…
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Some recently sent me the following joke. I think it would be a lot more funny if it wasn’t so true. enjoy:
An astronaut in space in 1970 was asked by a reporter, “How do you feel?”
“How would you feel,” the astronaut replied, “if you were stuck here, on…
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I always knew there was a link between them, but nobody would listen. If you like engineers and cats, this is a definite “must watch”.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4[/youtube]
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A friend recently pointed out an interesting site, StumbleUpon Exchange, for the sake of being short we’ll say “SUex”. Thanks Jake. I added two of my sites, aguywalkedintoabar.com and barmano.com to test it out with. My objective is long term, to build awareness/brand recognition for my sites. So after about 12 sites…
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A quick post on improving your Adsense relevancy, and thus CTR, via improved meta description. Which adds to my belief that SEO should focus on good content as the ultimate-suprimo-uber-priority.
So a little background:
I have several websites (private lessons, home repair, cocktails and bar guide, etc.), and a never-ending to-do…
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OK, how many of these do you know about? I’m posting this for myself, as much as others. I’ve heard of several of these helpful tips, but I never seem to remember them when the situation arises. Most I’ve probably heard from my mom or grandma at some point, if…
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Another one of my old ideas, has finally started to materialize. As of January, findmrfixit.com has officially launched. The idea to having a site has been quick, just a couple months of market research and development. So I expect the learning curve to be quite steep. The site’s objective is helping…
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Filing this under rants on poor customer service.
Exec Summary: Europcar lost our reservation, we couldn’t continue with the rest of our weekend trip, and had buy an extra train ticket to return home, thus ruining our weekend. (la lettre a la DG d’Europcar en francais ci-dessous)
We had made a…
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Do I really need to ask? I don’t think the housing market as a monopoly on bubbles at the moment. I hope you all aren’t mortgaged out, and have some cash reserves. Next couple years look to be rough.
Patricia sent me this video. I love it.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o[/youtube]
“blue shirts…
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