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Googling Twilight

November 11, 2009

This isn’t super important, but I get a kick out of searching time and time again. Yesterday, while at Pubcon, I sat through a presentation by a women whose name I won’t mention. She just showed picture after picture after picture of terms she Googled in different parts of the country. She claimed that we [...]

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Thesis Theme

November 9, 2009

If you’re a WordPress developer you probably recognize the theme I have recently begun to use. The Thesis theme developers claim that Thesis is one of the most versatile and themes ever created for WP developers. It’s supposed to be really simple to modify (although I’m still getting the hang of it).
I purchased it after [...]

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Happy Halloween

October 30, 2009
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This year, I got with some of my friends and cut pumpkins. As you can see in the pictures below, they went with a more traditional approach to pumpkin carving. Unfortunately, for me, I couldn’t get work out of my head, so I made an SEO pumpkin. Sad? Maybe. But it’s damn sexy.

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Picking a Theme and Optimizing Your WordPress Installation

October 30, 2009

The first thing you need to do is open up the theme files.
Making Sure the Theme is Ready for the Big Show

Check out the template files
Make sure that all the following template files exist for any theme we use.

index.php (While this is necessary, most themes nowadays, have nothing in this file, and control the homepage [...]

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I’m married to a Sex Maniac…Humor (oftentimes)=Viral

October 27, 2009
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In the Press – Should you Link to your own Press Coverage?

October 27, 2009

I love posting Matt Cutts videos because it means that I don’t actually have to do any work.

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Internal SEO – Interlinking is Surprisingly Effective

October 26, 2009

So you’re out there building links back to your pages. Good for you!
But maybe your working too hard. Whenever I work with clients, I explain to them the process of off-page SEO, which is in a sense just another word for linkbuilding in one form or another. But the truth is (especially for content sites), [...]

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To My Grandmother

October 25, 2009

I’m not one to share much about my personal life, nor do I think it appropriate most of the time. So, consider this an unique post.
When I was in 3rd grade my grandfather died. I remember sitting in the front seat of our station wagon getting ready to go on a field trip to the [...]

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Wedding Weekend

October 13, 2009

This weekend I took some time off flying to Minnesota to attend my best friend’s wedding.I was the best man. And while I’m a forgetful person, I not only remembered everything, I gave a great toast. (I may post the transcript later if I can find a video…not that you actually care).
At the moment, i’m [...]

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Pros and Cons of Buying and Selling Links

October 9, 2009

A couple weeks ago, a battle royale of sorts ensued between Aaron Wall of SEO Book and Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. Rand came out and declared that SEOmoz no longer recommended linkbuying to their clients as the risks involved were too great. Aaron Wall countered with body slam (which I’m sure hurt a lot, considering [...]

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