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NFC – Technology, not the football conference

By On December 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment

(this post was adapted from an email I sent to some co-workers)

I’m a sucker for new cell phones and I was reading about Google’s new phone, the Nexus S. They’re only 600 bucks, so if you don’t mind, next time you’re picking up a gallon of milk for the fam, pick me [...]

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Helping with a link/tweet test

By On December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here is the link:

Help end Hunger in Sierra Leone and meet the life you change.

Helping with a Tweet vs Link study: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-do-tweets-influence-search-rankings-an-experiment-for-a-cause

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Oh Yeeeeaaaaahhhh – MULLETS BABY!!!

By On September 22, 2010 · 1 Comment

You know what I’m talking about – Mullets.

I’m NOT talking about this:

I’m talking about THESE:

Tree Hugger Mullet – Notice the man-satchel, probably carrying his driver’s license, credit cards, and PETA membership card.

Mullet Neat – “Sammy Smitherman” is the owner of this fine piece, I saw Sammy tending his style with a [...]

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Oracle + Yahoo = BIG PILE OF CRAP

By On August 27, 2010 · 1 Comment

Today, I sit down at my desk as always, log on to my computer as always, and see that I had 2 updates I needed to run – not an “as always” type of occurrence.  One for Adobe Reader, the other for Java.

Adobe Reader:  Double click the icon, I Agree, Next, (watch [...]

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Determine Facebook Fan Page $$$ Value

By On July 30, 2010 · 1 Comment

FINALLY!

(I’m adopting this post from an email I sent this morning to upper management, editors, and other co-workers)

Before I get too far, I’d like to thank @thePRguycom for posting a link to THIS ARTICLE.

When I saw the Tweet, I clicked the link because I’ve found the #1 [...]

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Dear Google – The new Google Images Search Is AWESOME!

By On July 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Just sayin’

In case you haven’t seen Google’s new image search results, go to http://images.google.com right now and do a search.  The results are about 4,000 times more helpful and user friendly than they used to be.  Not that I think anything has changed in terms of Google’s image search algorithm, they’re simply [...]

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WHOA, Google is REALLY fast!!!

By On July 6, 2010 · 1 Comment

I just published my post about inbound links being equivalent to SEO steroids.  Literally, minutes ago.

Then, I do a search for my name (who hasn’t?) and my post has already been cached by Google!

Picking jaw up off floor…

Minutes people, minutes.

Either Googlebot and my blog have something sexy going on, [...]

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Inbound Links: SEO Steroids

By On July 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Recently, the folks over at SEOmoz had a Whiteboard Friday blog post where they documented the strength a few inbound links might have for a website.

While being an avid SEOmoz schmoozer (I don’t post on their blog, I don’t leave comments either, and I use the free tools) I do [...]

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FINALLY!!! MS Word 2007 Extra Paragraph Removal Solution

By On April 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

If you’ve spent a measurable amount of time in MS Word 2007 you’ll notice that by default there is an extra space added to the end of a carriage return (hitting the enter key).  The reason: the most popular formatting in the academic community is double spaced.  If you write for this area or are [...]

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Redirecting Dynamic Pages To Static Pages / URLs

By On July 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Why Redirect?

You do not want to create new pages on your site using the same content as an old page without setting up a 301 redirect.  Specifically – creating a brand new page that creates a brand new URL string where each new page contains the same content as an existing page – should [...]

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