Guest post…

February 28th, 2008, 1:31 pm Michael 1 comment

I did a guest post over at SugarRae.com - go check it out…

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Digg Algorithm changes force users to REVOLT!

January 24th, 2008, 10:42 am Michael 3 comments

WHO THE HELL CARES?

Google changed its algorithm - when was the last time you saw SEO’s stop submitting to or optimizing for google.

Please refer to this past post if you have any other concerns.

Now please return to your home before the digg riot gets out of control and people start burning down buildings and looting stores.

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Keeping Content King & Not Crap.

January 15th, 2008, 10:26 am Michael No comments

Every SEO will come across that one site that is very straight forward with a negative amount of content on it. Usually it will be a combination of a bit of actual text but mainly just some pictures and a flash file here or there.

So what the heck do you do to make it a bit more substantial?

I for one love a good clean wordpress install but not labeled as a blog - instead I use “News” or “Information” heading on the menu bar. I then find a theme which matches the main site as close as possible. Throw a bit of my css/php ability in there and I can usually make it look as if it was an extension of the site.

So bam, you have just made a normal site now have an RSS feed and also the ability to hold a lot of content which you control and write.

So what to write?

Topical content generally sucks & rather then blast the user with 25 pages of meaningless crap which is nothing more then a bunch of keywords repeated 20 times with some sentences in between - I tend to use the Google Keywords Suggestion tool to aid me in my writing. I drop my main keywords into the tool and see what other ones google comes up with. I then sort the results by Avg Search Volume and begin to write from the top. This way when I get to the bottom hopefully big “G” will have already graced my first posts with its presence so I will be able to have fresh new content on a high volume search term ready and waiting for its next visit. After each time I post I usually run to a blog ping site and let all the blog scrapers know that I got some new stuff going on and they should come and check it out. Make sure you do your best at trying to keep the articles on topic and actually something that the person would want to read - cause this is also where social bookmarking can come in. Remember the better your article & information you give the better your chances are to get in links from it via a Social bookmarking site.

So, you have some content on your site - but the only way to get to it is from 1 single link off of the main page - how can we pull some of the information onto the main site and still make it look good? There is 2 ways to do this - the ghetto way or the respectable coder way.

1) the Ghetto way - Pulling the RSS feed from Wordpress and displaying it on your homepage. This is not that difficult if you are using php. If you are using HTML on the main page it gets a bit tricky. If you are a ninja coder you should be able to figure it out - if you are not - there is a freeware script that will actually do it for you. You will have to edit the CSS to make it all blend and It might take a bit to figure out. But this way you will be able to gain some good changing content on your homepage while also gaining substance in the back of the site.

2)the Respectable coder way - If you are using PHP the other way to do this would be to actually make a call to the MySql database and display the topics & a snippet from the postings on the homepage. Now I am not a respectable coder by any means so I can not take credit for what I am about to post here - this was actually done by someone else for the site I was working on. (Credit: J.P. & Dan Zarrella)

$buff = mysql_query('SELECT ID, post_title FROM wp_posts ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 3');
while($line = mysql_fetch_assoc($buff)) {
echo "<a href='--YOUR%20WORDPESS%20DIR--/?p=$line[id]'>$line[title]</a>";
}


So what the above code does is gives you the Title of your 3 latest wordpress posts. Now again I am no coder so more then likely you are going to need to do a bit of tweaking in there to get it to work properly - but you get the basic idea. This is the best way I have found to keep some fresh content on a site that is lacking a place for content and sometimes a need for it.

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Omemo - the coolest thing I have seen in 23 minutes.

December 28th, 2007, 12:55 pm Michael 3 comments

Why 23 minutes? Because 20 minutes ago I threw a match off the side of my building and I watched it spin upwards for roughly 3 minutes. Staying level with my eyes as it caught by the updraft of wind.

Enter Omemo.

Omemo promotes itself as a “Social Storage Network” - or a big hard drive where you can store anything you want.

How it works. You download their little application and install it, and grant it permission to a section of your hard drive. You then can upload files to the network, which get cut up into little pieces and sent across the omemo network to other users hard drives. You can that allow the file to be public and search able or private. So no one file is not stored in 1 place, it is actually stored in hundreds if not thousands of places. (more like 30-40 places until the network grows)

Content can be filtered, thank god, so that a search for a file or document will not give you a bunch of porn or other stuff that you do not want to see.

So this will either be the next target of the RIAA / MPAA or one of the coolest idea’s of the year. 2008 could be the year of the Omemo. This will hold me over until Knol comes out. The possibilities with this is amazing - also the company which makes the software has made it open source.

More information can be found on the Omemo website.

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Social bookmarking is getting old…

December 27th, 2007, 4:24 pm Michael 1 comment

…need i say more?

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