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10 Rules for Link Building
John Chow published an interesting article on link building. Briefly summarized, the rules are:No comment spamming Be judicious with article marketing and guest blogging. Don’t spam forums with thousands of profiles Slowly build your social bookmarking presence Limit your directory budget to high quality directories Don’t be too concerned with page rank. Concentrate on views and SERP (search engine results page). Don’t spam for reciprocal links. Avoid link farms. Change your anchor text on different sites. Remember to use deep links within directories for specialized pages on your site.All in all a good set of reminders when trying to build links to your site. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Search Engine Optimization
A Thought about Digital Photography
I love digital cameras but I long for the days passed. The days when I use to look forward to developing my own film to see which, if any, of the photos I produced turned out. The dismay when I learned that I accidentally overexposed a whole roll of film or the delight to observe the film slowly developing into a roll of great photos. The thought I had to put into trying to save a photo that was poorly framed or exposed. The creative work of using my hands and my Beseler Photo Enlarger to work magic on the photo. There was a sense of anticipation and surprises during the whole process that seems to be gone nowadays. Spontaneity seems to be missing while technology seems to dominate. You … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ideas and Thoughts
22 Best Must Have WordPress 3 Plugins
To read the complete list click on the above title or the Read More button below When I decided to move to WordPress 3.1, I revisited all of the plugins that I have been using and started a research project to find some new must have plugins that would enhance the blog. The criteria I used for choosing these best must have plugins was that they: 1) must be popular plugins (as defined on the WordPress.org site so that I have a fair amount of confidence that they are reliable, stable, and not prone to security leaks. 2) must be coded in such a way that they do not collide with other plugins which would destabilize my blog. 3) work with the most current version of WordPress and that they have a reasonably long … Read entire article »
How Facebook and the iPhone Changed the World
Gone are the need for phone booths and sealed mail that help ensure privacy. Ubiquitous cookies track our every move on our computers and iPhones. George Orwell wrote about Big Brother in 1984, but little did he realize that he would enter into our lives as a Trojan Horse within our gadgets. It is as if the T.V. set is staring back at us. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Lifestyle
My First Joke
New iPhone ad targeting Baby Boomers: Poor old man. Everyone thinks he is crazy because he talks to himself all day. So he bought two iPhones and just texts himself. Now everyone thinks he is perfectly normal. Have you ever written a joke? If so, please share. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humor
