Shilling Braggadocio
What a morning! I woke up with the television on – Karate Kid II was the morning feature on the USA network. I shed a tear as “Glory of Love” inspired me to be the better man. After fielding a call from another potential client, I did a little SEO and layout consulting for Altruwood. […]
I am building a local directory of PDX bars. I’ve build a solid foundation for traffic/search optimization (see my article on using MOD_REWRITE), and hopefully will have displaced citysearch which currently dominates results pages of google and yahoo when searching for information about a specific bar. One thing I’m building is the ability for promoters/managers/bar […]
I’ve been building a database of bars and nightclubs in my home city of Portland. However, I didn’t like the messy URLs generated when I passed the “bar_id” parameter to the PHP script: <a href=bar_info.php?bar_id=1> Shanghai Tunnel </a> I wanted a nice clean way to make the URL contain both the bar’s name, extract information […]
I was chatting with my friend Matt Steckler, a guy who at least once a year pulls off some zany scheme. For awhile, he was broadcasting fan commentary via cellphones from Seattle Supersonics games. As it picked up listenership, he was served with a Cease and Desist from the NBA. His latest adventure is an […]
With some of my websites I have found that the image search function for both Google and Yahoo has generated a significant increase in traffic. In fact, I have one website that increased it’s daily uniques by over 300 visitors a day, just because of image searching. I watched my sales and advertising clickthrough rates […]
Joe Griffin puts it best in his article entitled The Google Economy Google makes friends with the popular people (used in metaphor to represent websites). Google does not care about the new kid in school. If you can understand his simple principle, you will be well on your way to laying out a solid foundation […]
Not hours after I launched this and another blog, a whole series of comment spam came flooding in – You know, the usual sort: Casinos, pharmaceuticals, porn, and more. So in an effort to combat this, I have made it a requirement for anyone who wishes to post to have cookies enabled in their browser. […]