Most of my experiments have used good ole WordPress as the basic web platform with my SEO experiments as an overlay. Today, I’m trying something different. I’ve created a pure HTML set of two pages on which I’m offering some of my father’s poetry for sale. I will be manually setting all the same tricks Read More…
Google Mapping API – Markers, Polygons, Points, Oh My!
If you’ve gone through my site, you probably know that I work as a contractor a good part of the time. Because of that I’m exposed to a lot of different technology / libraries. The most recent library has been Google Mapping API. I’ve learned about Markers, Polygons, Points and had the chance to play with some Javascript again. Good times.
Example vs. Tutorial – SEO Magic
After reviewing some Google Webmaster tools reports, I decided to make one tiny change: swap the word “tutorial” for “example” in the title of one of my pages. Result: it worked!
SEO Magic
SEO Magic. Is there such a thing? It depends. SEO is not technically complicated. Yet, seeing your page to the top of a Google results page is still the holy grail of web masters. So it seems like SEO magic exists. Yet, while it may seem like magic, there are some basic (really basic) things Read More…
sed – only took me twenty years
It took me twenty years, but I finally used sed
Updated blog engine – beware
So I finally gave in and updated my blog engine. It was (almost) a seamless experience.
Indexing Meadow Vista Barber Shop
I’m trying to determine why my manually created sitemap are not getting fully indexed, whereas my wordpress submitted sitemaps are fully indexed. What is different?
More SEO Magic
I’m undertaking a more challenging search term in my “Prove It To Me – SEO Experiment” series. Let’s see if we can put this concept to work successfully. More SEO magic for you.
SEO Magic on my Other blog
I have another blog that I use for other stuff. Some professional/programming related items, some general purpose items. One item that I set up there involved Search Engine Optimization (SEO). What I call SEO experiments – Prove-it-to-me. My latest experiment was a smash. Check out my Tattoo Fondness experiment page.
Lucene, SOLR, Hadoop and Pig
The next few weeks and months will have me working with new technology from Apache: SOLR, HADOOP, and Pig. Read how I got myself in this mess, and how I hope to get out of it.