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The state of the internet how to get an ahead

scott — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:50:59 +0000

thought this video shows a good view of what the state of communication in the world is like these days. It is kind of overwhelming to think how things have grown to the state they are at now.

Kaseya helps find a stolen laptop

scott — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:16:01 +0000

An 18-year-old, accused of stealing a laptop in Melbourne and surfing porn on it, thought he was home free after evading police for two months, but he came undone when he logged on to Facebook.

Twitter killed by Zombies

scott — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:37:06 +0000

Twitter was brought down for several hours today by what is called a DoS attack (Denial of Service). This is done with several computers that are taken over by viruses and used to launch attacks against your own network or on other networks or services. These computers that are overtaken are called Zombies. If your computer isn't equipped with up-to-date anti-malware software and the latest version of your operating system, you could be part of the problem.

How to use Social Networking for Business (and fun)

scott — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:05:25 +0000

We hear the buzz words about the social networks from the News, Late Night TV, even the Whitehouse and your local politician how everyone is Tweeting and they have a Face book page and are hooking up with old contacts through Linked in. How can you use these tools with your business to help drive traffic to your site?

What the bing?

scott — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:35:31 +0000

Bing.com A decision engine works towards helping you find specific items such as purchases and travel. It can also help with everyday purchases as well and help to find your business listing.

Link Building Information & Services:

scott — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:37:01 +0000

LinkHounds – a free information site about linking from Back Link Analyzer Linking101 – Larry Sullivan’s linking information website. Linking Matters – Ken McGaffin’s site about link building, offering the free Linking Matters report Andy Hagans – Andy works for Text Link Ads, and also runs the Link Building Knowledge Base Alliance Link- Debra Mastaler’s link building site Eric [...]

Advertising Via Social Networkers

scott — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:05:17 +0000

A recent study by InsightExpress, exploring participation trends across social networks, as well as how receptive their members are to advertising, found that 43% of the online population reports using a social networking site. And, no matter their age or number of profiles, social networkers see advertising as a hot topic. An [...]

4 reasons to update your site often

scott — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:22:03 +0000

An effective websites will take considerable planning, development and effort on your part to get everything how you want it. Once you’ve made your initial investment and have your site up and running, the job continues in keep it updated and maintained. Your web site content is like the oil in your car. You have to [...]

SEO Basic Training Part 4 of 4

scott — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:20:08 +0000

When you have your site designed there are several ways to have a site built. With the technology for pages always changing you want to be flexible on how you can update your site. Do not get locked into a design that you have to depend on someone else to change a sentence or make a correction. Here is a quick overview of the design process that Pathway Solutions uses to design each site.

SEO Basic Training Part 3 of 4

scott — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:19:33 +0000

For most small businesses there are a few simple rules that you need to know and follow to help with your search engine optimization: 1. Have a good understanding of your offering 2. Know what your unique selling position is 3. Know your competition 4. Understand the resources that are available to help your campaign 5. Learn good SEO practices

SEO Basic Training Part 2 of 4

scott — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:19:05 +0000

The Core of white hat SEO is fairly simple: • Understand how your site pages are viewed by the search engines. • Design your site for human visitors first and optimize the pages for Search Engines 2nd. • Know your key words that are effective in search results • Customize the tags for each page to be unique to the content that you have on that page • Do not be overly aggressive with SEO techniques such as keyword stuffing, and hidden text • Create new content for your site and optimize that content for the search engines

SEO Basic Training Part 1 of 4

scott — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:36:01 +0000

Truth 1. Getting noticed by spiders, robots, and crawlers Spiders, robots, and crawlers are your friends. In the name of search engine optimization, you’ll not only learn to love them, but you’ll actually go out of your way to attract them to your site. In SEO, spiders, robots, and crawlers are more or less synonymous, but don’t [...]

Comcast is messing with my SMTP

scott — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:33:09 +0000

What is the meaning of Comcast filtering my SMTP, send mail function. With a little investigation and a call to support I found that my consumer subscription to comcast is now blocked from sending my using my own account. Since I have my own domain name http://itpws.com, I have been using my port 25 to send [...]

Posting to your blog the easy way.

scott — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:24:02 +0000

While investigating the easy way to allow clients post to the blog I ran accross this FireFox plugin. This allows you to be on the article that you are researching and then write up the post and post it right to your blog site without missing a beat.

Twitter will not work for business! or will it?

scott — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:27:13 +0000

Social network applications such as twitter have a high noise to value ratio. So can it be used in a way to benefit the every day business? Or is the noise ratio too high to get any use out of Twitter in your business?

Business Opportunity with a Bite!

scott — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:27:19 +0000

Are you looking for some easy money making methods for getting good chunk of profit? A small business opportunity is awaiting you. Buzz bites is a high energy, high demand product, which is making waves in the market. Buzz bite, chocolate energy chew is an alternative to the energy drinks as well as coffee.

Buzz Bites Hits Seattle BuzzSeattle.com

scott — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:51:49 +0000

BuzzSeattle.com and 1hotbiz.com agree to co-promote their sites and the businesses that are donating counter space and breakroom space to help local charities and organizations.

How a Web Design Degree Helps a Designer

scott — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:13:58 +0000

A common question we hear from people is whether or not it makes sense to go to college to learn web design. The short answer is “yes”, but the long answer isn’t much sexier, it’s just “yes, quite a lot.” The web was once a thing your high schooler could build for you with modest [...]

How much Flash is too much Flash?

scott — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:37:02 +0000

If you’ve ever seen a site made entirely of pretty Flash pages, you know it can look unique and very catchy. Almost “Flashy,” if you will. But if you’ve seen enough of these sites you’ve likely noticed some obvious problems, but there are many more considerations lying beneath the surface you might not have even [...]

How to Set Up Your Blog

scott — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:56:24 +0000

If you’ve even remotely heard of this latest technological innovation called “the internet”, it’s all but certain you’ve likewise already come to understand the benefit of the blog. See, whatever it is you do all day, you write about, others get to read about it, and by an economy of scale, some of them will [...]