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CenturyLink paid me $1971 to Stop Being Their Customer
Check out my story on customer service gone wild here.
Technical SEO
10 SEO Myths Debunked
Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz debunks 10 common myths about search optimization in this video:
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Technical SEO
SEO 101: On-Page Optimization
This is from a presentation I did for SEMpdx in November of 2011. (more…)
Internet marketing
Click-thru Rates in Organic Search
Search Agency Slingshot SEO has compiled this very interesting and useful report on click rates on each position in the organic search results, reported in the linked article at Search Engine Watch. (more…)
In probably the most important search ranking news in 2010, Ben Hendrickson of Local Search 
Found an interesting quirk in Google local search today. I was looking for a particular company's placement in Google local results. (more…)
Portland, Oregon…or Estonia?
Found an interesting quirk in Google local search today. I was looking for a particular company's placement in Google local results. (more…)Technical SEO 
The Disposable Search Engine
Google Mini: a disposable search engine
BACKGROUND: Google Mini is essentially an appliance, a mini version of Google that they ship preconfigured on a cheap rackmount webserver, with a light version of Google installed. You can configure it a little to look like your site, and get it to catalog just your site's pages, and then integrate a search box into your website to implement site search.
At TheBigDay, we bought a Google Mini box. It lasted a little less than a year before biting the biscuit. So, Google shipped us a new box as it was under warranty. I sort of expect that a webserver would last more like 3-5 years at least, but whatever...they replaced it, so let's move on, right? Not real happy about all the extra time I had to put in, but at this point I was OK with the support.
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