During the 6th century b.c. the prophet and founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, appeared in northwestern India teaching principles of enlightenment; specifically through meditation techniques and by knowing the Four-fold Noble truth and by practicing the Eight-fold Noble Path in life. One of those noble paths is called “right intent.” On the path to enlightened …
Happy Birthday Mr. Web Guru!
Hey, it is March 12, my birthday again. It’s hard for me to believe it but yes, I am a baby-boomer. So what should I do today? Hmmm. Should I do some research on Web 2.0? Should I optimize some content? Maybe I should blog about some really cool search engine marketing tactic. Now that …
About the RankQuest Toolbar
The SEO Toolbar that RankQuest developed is awesome. It has a whole slew of nifty applications all bundled into a nice neat package. Before I had to use several different pieces of software, some that I purchased to do my daily SEO Expert analysis thingys but now I can tackle a few of those dozens …
Search Engine Workshops, Advanced Strategies – Day Three
Last night was really great. I met up with my friend Daphne for a massage and she worked me over something fierce. Daphne Jean aka DJ, Wow, I wish I lived here I’d get one of those a week. When I got back to the hotel I found Dave with John and Robin hanging out …
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Search Engine Workshops, Advanced Strategies – Day Two
Adam’s Mark has a pretty good breakfast buffet. Tomorrow I think I’ll try the Denver omelet. John Alexander started out today with a session about LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) originally known as “Latent Semantic Analysis.” John explained
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Search Engine Workshops, Advanced Strategies – Day One
I decided not to drive to Denver until the morning of the Search Engine Workshops. I set my alarm for 4 am. The problem is that I could not get to sleep until 2:30 am. So I am sleep deprived as I arrived and realized what a messed up downtown structure Denver suffers from. I …
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Killing Five Birds with one Blog Post
Hey, this blogging stuff is kinda fun! I even started a category called “Rant.” And no one complained when I posted to it. How wonderful! It’s like having a pet turtle or a goldfish or a… hmmm. Today, while I was in a consultation with Lauryn at Jackson Hole Central Reservations, the folks who run …
Algorithmusical
Interesting to me is how a good algorithm is similar to a well composed piece of music! A good algorithm has interesting formulas composed of things like vectoring and densities and proximities and frequencies and percentages and semantic analysis and democracy. Similarly
Denvers 15% Bed Tax!
I just made my reservation for lodging at the Adams Mark Hotel in Denver. I’m headed to the Search Engine Workshops next week. SEW worked out a nice little group discount. I guess the rooms are normally $189 per night (really?!), and I get two nights at $139 each which comes to $278 (I feel …
To CAPITALIZE or not to capitalize Page Titles
The question arises: “When writing a page title, should you use all caps, all lowercase, or is there another way that is best?” What I have found is that it is best to treat your titles as if they were the subject line of a news paper article. This method is called “Title Case” and …
