It’s strange. The more I ignore Google, the better it likes me.
This month has seen a noticeable increase in traffic at my other blog - the one that started out as a hobby. I haven’t submitted it to directories, I haven’t been leaving comments on other people’s blogs. I haven’t done a [...]

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Here’s a great article by Chris Garrett on Performancing.com, all about getting things done instead of letting them get on top of you. Even though he’s talking to bloggers, almost everything he says applies to any project. Like me, he’s the type to think and research an idea to death while someone else [...]

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When I first started buying domains, I used GoDaddy because someone recommended them and they had a sale. Their website was more complicated than it needed to be, and everything loaded very slowly. When I tried Namecheap next, I found out it didn’t have to be that way.
Namecheap is less expensive, and offers [...]

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I signed up a site on Productive Hosting a few months ago. The company changed to SupremeNetworks soon thereafter. That raised a bit of a flag, but everything seemed fine. Now this guy has, apparently taken off and simply deleted everyone’s sites from the server.
I don’t claim to know what happened, but there’s [...]

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Miss me?
I’ve been very, very busy lately with something unexpected. You may recall the site I nicknamed “The B-2 Bomber” - a blog I started ten months ago about a personal interest of mine, which took off unexpectedly thanks to people recommending it to friends, with very little SEO? Well, [...]

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You heard it here first: I’m coining the term: “Visitor Based Optimization”. And it signals what you’re going to be seeing on this site from now on. (I may even have to change the name.)
You’ve probably already read that SEO as we know it is dead . Here’s my homespun explanation for [...]

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