Did Google Blacklist Your Store?

August 3, 2009

How is your e-commerce website doing? Does it seem to be stuck in Google and not ranking? You are not alone. It is simply not enough just to have an e-commerce site in order to be profitable online. You need to spend alot of time working on SEO. Even with SEO your e-commerce may still [...]

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Turboboosting Conference Q&A

July 30, 2009

Search conferences are a no brainer to attend if you have an unlimited expense account.  For the rest of the world we need to make sure our limited budgets and schedules will be well spent at a search conference.  This is not for anyone that views conferences as a mental health break. For those people [...]

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Gambling for Charity

July 29, 2009

I am running the NYC Half-Marathon for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on August 16th.  Which means its time again for my degenerate friends to gamble on my finish time for charity.  The winner gets half of the money and the sick kids with cancer get the other half.  Each 15 second slot is $15.  Simply [...]

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Secret to Winning Google Updates

July 27, 2009

Ever wonder how the search industry veterans can figure out and exploit Google updates even when Google doesn’t realize they updated something?  It is not about being lucky or being psychic.  The secret is good research. Good research will expose the patterns in the algorithm.  Knowing these patterns you will see what is being rewarded [...]

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Allowable Paid SEO Links

July 22, 2009

In case you are not a veteran of search engine optimization you may not know that your website’s link popularity is critical to high rankings on search engines.  The quantity AND quality of the links pointing to your website will help to determine if your website is #1 or #100.  Since link popularity correlates so [...]

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Why am I blogging again?

July 20, 2009

It has been over a year since I blogged last.  Why restart now?  Why deal with the headaches of comment spam?  What am I going to get out of a blog?  Blogs aint free. Excuse me, did you think a wordpress blog is free?  Besides paying the obvious cost of registering a domain and monthly [...]

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Sweet Potatoes with Bacon and Chestnuts

December 13, 2008

2 lb. thick-cut bacon, cut into large chunks 4 lb. sweet potatoes cut into large chunks 2 tbs. olive oil 1 cup chestnut pieces 3 tbs. butter 1 cup shallots cut into large chunks 1/4 cup of brandy salt and pepper to taste Bake the bacon at 425 degrees for 5 minutes, turn bacon and [...]

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Irish Soda Bread

December 13, 2008

4 cups flour 3 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 cup sugar 2 cups raisins 1/4 soft butter 2 tbl caraway seeds 2 cups buttermilk Sift together flour, baking power, salt, baking soda, sugar. Add butter and raisins and mix with hands. Add about 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk and [...]

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Raise Money for Marathons, Triathlons or any thons

May 9, 2008

Here are some “bad” ways to quickly raise money for a good cause. These methods are not very politically correct and might even be illegal in your area. That being said these fundraising ideas just might help be able to raise a lot of money for charity from people that like drinking, gambling and the [...]

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Why My Local Florist Frustrates Me

January 31, 2008

I am a strong believer in supporting local businesses and helping out your hometown, but I am a little torn right now.  Ya see there is a local florist from my hometown that is sorely in need of internet help.  Many of you already know I do a lot of pro bono internet help but [...]

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