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The Florida SEO - Learning Linux One Mistake at a Time.

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:50:00 -0500

A couple months ago I decided to take the leap into actually installing and running a Linux machine. After a couple of failed installs, I managed to format a disk and install my new favorite distro ... Debian installed. Coming from a Windoze environm...

BlogCFC ColdFish Code Block Print Function Update

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:07:00 -0500

Normally I pay quite a bit of attention to my site after I do any major updates or changes but I've been quite a slacker lately and I seemed to have missed a few issues that happened after I updated my blog core ... Bad me. Something interesting t...

How to Get Thousands of Quality Links in One Minute

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:17:00 -0500

The first thing you need to know about getting top rankings in Google is that you need to have quality content - so when you get Google's traffic you can actually generate business from it - then you need Inbound Links to get you to the first positio...

Link Building Articles for Link Builders

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:30:00 -0500

The title, Link Building Articles for Link Builders, pretty much says exactly what it should. Over the past few years I've collected some of the most influential articles available on the subject of link building. Though it's not a complete list, I t...

Website Content & Content Writing: Does Quality Content Really Matter?

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:01:00 -0500

Understanding Your Websites' Audience is Critical to Marketing Your Website One of the most common beliefs held by many SEO experts is that content is king. I also hold this belief. However, as popular as the view is, I'm surprised at the amount o...

Google Site Preview in Search Results

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:00:00 -0500

I was taking a look on line and noticed that Google's waxing experimental again ... this time with site preview in the search engine results pages ... Now I can see how this would be beneficial - Let's keep people from having to go back and forth fro...

WordPress Thesis Theme Customization - Adding a Custom XHTML Sitemap

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:38:00 -0500

The Thesis Theme for WordPress - One Powerful WordPress Framework Lately I've been learning all I can on leveraging the functionality of the Thesis theme for WordPress. When I first heard about the versatility and power of Thesis in a blog post by R...

What's In a Web Host? Your Hosting Company Is Your Business

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:58:00 -0500

Over the years I've been lucky enough to have relatively few major incidents with my sites - Knock Knock. But, I can't same the same for some of my clients. I've had a handful of clients that didn't do much research about their web hosting company an...

Florida SEO - Back to the SEO Blog After a Year

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:12:00 -0500

Well I've decided to start getting back to blogging after a year long hiatus. I really don't have a lot to say on this return post except that it's officially been one year since I've done any other writing and I figured that it's time to get back to...

GOD Must Love Gold - Florida SEO - Sunrise & Atlantic

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:07:00 -0500

Here's some awesome shots I took on Fort Lauderdale Beach around 7-ish September 1st 09' .... Nice ... :)

Flash Security Vulnerability? Not with Firefox & NoScript

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:55:00 -0500

Apparently there is a Flash Security Vulnerability deriving from the 'authplay.dll' in Adobe's Flash Player on Windows, Mac and Linux for both Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x. Basically, an unsuspecting victim may be lured to a site that contains malic...

ALS » Lou Gehrig's Disease » Sucks » Give a Damned » Save a Life Today

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:12:00 -0500

@FoxlairSolitare's Mom has ALS, AKA Lou Gehrig's Disease and she needs help. If you want to help save a life ... Dig in to your pocket and do it. That's it. Everyday the collective American population spends money on useless crap and we never even ba...

Make Money on Google AdWords Scams » Google Cracks Down

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:15:00 -0500

Have you seen the "Make Money on Google" advertisements in Google? If not, your'e really not missing out ... Most of the ads you'll find for "Make Money" are worthless, nevertheless ... many people are taken in by the lure of easy money, and apperent...

Managing ColdFusion and Database Services Through Batch Scripting

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:51:00 -0500

Managing ColdFusion Application Services » Does StartUp Need So Many Steps? No. Some time last year I realized the need to manage the application development services running simultaneously on my dev box. On my main box I'm running ColdFusion 8 on I...

5 Great Examples of SEO Friendly JavaScript & CSS Menus

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:19:00 -0500

Florida SEO Says, "Dear JavaScript ... Will You Ever Forgive Me? " In my last post ... I attempted to explain how pure JavaScript menus were not good for SEO. However, after reading how the message came across to some of my readers, I feel it's prob...

Florida SEO - SEO Fundamentals JavaScript vs Text Based Menus

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:13:00 -0500

SEO 101: Search Engine Robots Can't Follow Links in Pure JavaScript Menus I've recently been receiving some interesting quotes for SEO services with Florida Search Engine Optimization. As part of the standard procedure I employ when reviewing a pros...

Business Getting Slow? Invest in SEO

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:51:00 -0500

Search Engine Optimization Increases Business » Any Questions? Sometimes I'm baffled by the lack of understanding most business owners have in the value of online visiblity. Even some of the clients I have worked with which have seen and realized fa...

Google RESTful Ajax » JSON Search in ColdFusion

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:38:00 -0500

While I was hacking and cursing my way through a routine to convert RSS feeds in to HTML ... I had an idea. I thought, "Wow, maybe there's another way to do this ..." Converting RSS can be messy so I opted for a much easier and cleaner solution ... J...

Mastering SEO Rankings with Analytics Data

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:11:00 -0500

$(document).ready(function(){ $("a#single_image").fancybox({ 'overlayShow': false }); }); After reading this post you won't be able to "Master Search Engine Rankings" ... However, with some simple guidelines, you can create an effect...

Dear Lisa - I'll Always Remember You

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:09:00 -0500

February was probably the most difficult month I have ever had. After wrecking my car on February 9th, I had a hard time getting around ... I had forgotten to add rental coverage to my insurance policy when I signed up ... Smooth ... Next, I lost my ...

Florida SEO » Online Conversions » Analytics » Search Engine Rankings

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:10:00 -0500

Goal Conversions are The Bottom Line Recently there seems to be a big shift in focus in the SEO industry regarding the importance of conversions over search engine rankings. This concept really sounds like a no-brainer to me ... probably because I...

Florida SEO » Google Web Site Penalty Checker with Hyves

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:21:00 -0500

Hyves Google Web Site Penalty Checker » As I was perusing through the updates on Seo Master List, I saw an interesting post from Search Engine Watch regarding checking whether your web site is penalized or banished from Google by simply adding "hyves...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » Apache MultiViews » Mod_Rewrite

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:53:00 -0500

Apache apparently has a server module call mod_negotiation which contains an option called MultiViews. MultiViews is a setting that gives the server the ability to decide the best representation for a requested file that doesn't exist. Furthermore, I...

Florida SEO » LinkDiagnosis » One Fantastic SEO Tool

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:38:00 -0500

While doing my morning crawl through my email I ran across an article from Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting regarding a recent interview he had with Angus Norton of Microsoft ... after reading the article, I was persuaded to go check out Eric's s...

Florida SEO » The ColdFusion Maniac Returns

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:50:00 -0500

So I recently installed Adobe CS4 Master Collection on my laptop ... I want to test it on there before I convert from CS3 on my main development box. So far it's pretty cool. However, it's going to take me a bit to get used to the new interface ... a...

Florida SEO » Blog Humbug » Blah Blah Blah

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:43:00 -0500

Okay ... I haven't been blogging too much as most of those that I speak to have mentioned ... Well ... I have to be honest ... I really haven't been interested enough in anything to write ... maybe I'm just being resistant to the "Once a Week" sugges...

ColdFusion Ajax & JQuery ... Learn to Earn

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:29:00 -0500

Recently I decided that it's time to start paying a bit more attention to improving the visual presentation of one of my sites. The site's built in ColdFusion with lot's of nifty CF Ajax stuff thrown in. CFDiv's, CFWindows, and Pods here and there to...

Florida SEO » CFEclipse » Aptana Migration

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:16:00 -0500

I learned ColdFusion in DreamWeaver. For that matter, I've learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP in DreamWeaver too, so it's been fairly difficult for me to completely switch over to Eclipse even though I actually prefer working in Eclipse more than ...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » Goodbye MoxyMedia SEO

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:43:00 -0500

The MoxyMedia SEO division is officially gone. I have to be honest and tell you that before I decided to start my own company, I really enjoyed working with most of the people over there, and I learned quite a lot too. On Tuesday Oct 7th, I found out...

Google PageRank Update Sept 26

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:37:00 -0500

Well, it seems that the mighty Google is back at their PageRank updates again. At the time of writing this post, the Tool Bar PageRank of Florida Search Engine Optimization and SEO Fort Lauderdale went down a point. That's interesting since Matt Cutt...

Social Media » Internet Marketing Strategies » Florida SEO

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:40:00 -0500

I'm really impressed by some of the new and effective internet marketing strategies that have been coming out lately. On LinkedIn, I saw a post for a sharing widget and decided that it would be cool to add this functionality to the collection of soci...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » SEO for Lawyers

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:43:00 -0500

SEO for lawyers has turned out to be a very good return on investment for most legal services. Though I have done some SEO campaigns for several other verticals such as mortgage, real estate, insurance, educational loans and local retail business, th...

Hurricane Ike » Live in Florida » Sept 9 08

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:09:00 -0500

According to storm tracking predictions at Stormpulse, Hurricane Ike is going to be arriving in South Florida sometime Early in the A.M, Wednesday, September 9th. Image credit: StormPulse If you've ever been lucky enough see a major hurric...

Google Chrome » Rocks

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:12:00 -0500

So my first impression about Google's new Chrome browser, is that it Rocks. It's quite apparent that the engineers at Google know exactly what the development community is looking for and they make no small feat in creating a web browser that is able...

Hey » I Want Your Regular Expressions » Now

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:59:00 -0500

I really like regular expressions (RegEx's) and I have this crazy fascination with learning and using them whenever and wherever I get a chance. If you don't know what a regular expressions is, the Sun Developer's Network's states: "A regular expr...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » Link Campaign Planning » 101

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:57:00 -0500

In the last post in my series on creating a link campaign to increase a web site's authority and improve visibility, I decided to describe a link campaign as one might do when planning for a long trip. Now, I am not a 'bad planner' per se, however,...

Delicious Goes Dot Com » Changes Page Layout

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:33:00 -0500

News travels fast on Twitter, and while I was checking out my updates, I saw that Delicious has changed their domain name from del.icio.us to the dot com delicious.com. I don't typically like change too much, but I think it will definitely help the s...

Florida SEO » BrowseRank? » Larry Page's Brother?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:59:00 -0500

Okay, so the wind of change is screaming at Microsoft ... That's not all that shocking. However, it seems that the incumbent software giant is trying to one up Google by coming out with a late-in-the-game answer to the PageRank algorithm - BrowseRank...

Florida SEO » Dave Naylor » Twitter Back Link Trick

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:27:00 -0500

If you are wanting to get a nice back link from Twitter, Dave Naylor recently exposed a way to get a do follow link from Twitter - If you're reading this, you might just want to open up another browser tab and do it while you're here ... I don't thin...

Florida SEO » CFC Problem » Solved

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:16:00 -0500

In my last post, I was ranting about a frustrating situation with CFC's on shared hosting over at HostMySite. Several months ago, I installed a rather cool CFC that only had a life span of three days - it worked fine - then all of a sudden - it stopp...

CFC Madness » Where's The Damned Component?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:47:00 -0500

Okay, So I might be a bit frustrated here ... I have had ongoing issues with CFC's at HostMySite, and I can't for the life of me find the root cause to my dilemma. If someone could give me a clue ... I would really appreciate it. My problem follows ...

Google Adwords Keyword Tool External Shows Exact Searches

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:22:00 -0500

Well it has been a long awaited advancement for the SEO, SEM and SMO industry ... but Google has finally added exact searches per month for keyword phrases to their keyword tool, Adwords Keyword Tool External. Previously, the tool would return re...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » SchoolLoans.com LLP

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:32:00 -0500

Recently I completed the launch for the new web site for student loans, www.SchoolLoans.com. Working along side Seth Kravitz of Cyber Technology LLC, Florida Search Engine Optimization has completed the initial phases of an SEO campaign and is pleas...

Florida SEO Love's July 4th! - Happy B-Day America!

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:52:00 -0500

Okay ... So I am a real freak for my country. I really love the United States and especially where I live, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (WooHoo). There are few other places that I would truly rather be. It really makes me mad when I hear people that are ...

An evening with Loren Baker » Search Engine Journal

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:48:00 -0500

Thursday June 26, I was privileged enough to hear a presentation on the basics of link building by Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal. Loren, gave a solid beginning to intermediate level preso, focused on building authority through internal links a...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » SEO Master List Is Alive

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:20:00 -0500

Well, It's alive ... I've launched SEO Master List. I have high expectations for this application and hope that it is well received in the SEO community. Which, brings me to another subject. SEO's, can be quite pretentious and highly critical ... So,...

Shout Out To Shana » The Social Media Sweetheart » Happy Birthday

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:11:00 -0500

I just wanted to post a belated (June 9th) birthday shoutout to Shana of Social Desire ... Shana is a friend of mine that contributes an enormous amount of her time and energy to blogging about all things Social media, Web 2.0, and search engine ...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » Has A New Bag

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:30:00 -0500

I've come up with a very cool new app that I put together ... The base code for the app comes from one of the baddest CF dudes around, Ray Camden, the ColdFusionJedi. I have really big expectations for this new app, and cannot wait to release it to s...

Florida Search Engine Optimization » Link Campaign 101

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:21:00 -0500

One of the most important factors to increase a web site's authority and improve visibility, is to obtain in bound links from other web sites. Easy right? Yes ... well the concept is anyways. I like to think that a link campaign is similar to walking...

SQL UDF to Convert Uppercase to Propercase

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:49:00 -0500

So, I figured that it would be a good idea to try and expand Florida Search Engine Optimization web coverage beyond the Miami, Fort Lauderdale areas. So, I started a project to build a quazi regional network in my site. At first, I tried to be crea...

SEO » SES URL » RegEx Cheat Sheet

Sun, 04 May 2008 04:58:00 -0500

Recently I have been going through the fantastic book, Mastering Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey Friedl. Since I first learned the basics of creating a URL re-write in ColdFusion from a buddy that I used to work with, I developed a crazy fascination ...

Florida SEO Try Catch Application.CFC

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:11:00 -0500

Okay, so I am only a year in to CF development now, and I still feeling about as confident with my skills as well, the first month I started ... don't ask me why, but I always seem to find a problem that baffles me. This time is not an exception. I ...

Google Hits Record High » Yahoo! & Live » Fall

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:46:00 -0500

In recent news, there were reports that the incumbent search engine Google, reached record highs (again) for the Month of March 08', with an incredible 59.8% of the market share. The data was collected from Hitwise and Compete for the US search stats...

CF 8 Image CAPTCHA » toScript JS Validation

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:06:00 -0500

I finally got to the point where I had seen just about as much spam that I could handle and being somewhat of a ColdFusion developer, I decided to take some action ... My first shot at stopping the pesky spammers was by implementing a Lyla CAPTCHA. ...

SEO Fort Lauderdale » Neo Hacked WP Theme

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:06:00 -0500

Okay, I recently got a little creative and decided to build a WordPress theme for my fledgling Florida Search Engine Optimization Dot Org ... I'm calling it Neo Hacked. I got the initial idea to take a shot a customizing my own theme after I was res...

Florida SEO - What's in your Search Engine Optimization - SEO Tool kit?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:39:00 -0500

When I first started doing SEO work I used little more than Dream Weaver, Overture, Word and Excel. I went through a fairly intense OJT training where the unspoken, but thoroughly understood realization was ... If you lagged behind your co-workers, e...

BlogCFC XML-RPC & Windows Live Writer

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:40:41 -0500

I recently decided to take a shot at creating Blog entries to BlogCFC through a desktop publishing application. ScribeFire, is a nice tool that offers the ability to create Blog posts directly to from Firefox. Yet, it lacked quality functionality and...

Florida SEO Bringing on Visuals - CFlickr CFC

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:16:00 -0500

I recently decided that it was about time to start adding some imagery to my Blog. I am the first person to go to bat for Content being the King on the web, but straight text content can at times be a little boring to look at. So I went on the hunt f...

Stunned By Beauty - There is a world beyond you

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:15:00 -0500

I recently received an email from a very good friend of mine, that included some pictures of the Carnival De Venise 07' ... These images struck me so hard, that I was completely stunned by their beauty. I live to grow my business and that way of lif...

Florida SEO - CakePHP - Ruby on Rails - BarCamp Miami

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:36:00 -0500

I went down to Miami with my good friend Mark from A List SEO to BarCamp Miami ... I didn't have tickets to the show I really wanted to be at, the Future of Web Apps, So I figured that at least I could hang out and get to meet some people at BarCamp....

Florida SMO A List SEO

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:35:00 -0500

While cruising around the Social Media Optimization world recently, I found my way to a very cool blog on SMO and SEM ... if you want to learn some inside info into the world of SMO ... check out A List SEO ... you might learn a little ...

Florida SEO - Omniture Analytics - A Nuke In The Marketing Industry

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:40:00 -0500

I was introduced to probably the most powerful analytics software available to date ... Omniture ... This is without a shadow of a doubt, a weapon that can be equated to that of a nuclear warhead in the search engine marketing professionals arsena...

SEO Business Elite Business Plus I II III 360 SEO Services

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:49:00 -0500

Well it's all in the title folks ... I have unrolled the Search Engine Optimization Packages for Florida Search Engine Optimization LLC. I am fairly optimistic that I will get a good response from the array of services that I have introduced. To rec...

The SEO w Momentum Florida Search Engine Optimization LLC

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:19:00 -0500

I recently filed for the articles of incorporation for Florida Search Engine Optimization. Now I have to work double time to make sure that everyone that told me that I should have started the company while working for some one else, will have to tak...

A Search Engine Optimization Campaign Quick & Dirty

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:00 -0500

Alright ... well I wrote an article a few weeks ago that has generated some fairly decent response from the folks that have been kind enough to share their opinions about it ... so, I am going to cut it loose here too. Check it out ... A Search Optim...

SEO Sculpting and Shaping a Silo

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:50:00 -0500

I recently took a very daring plunge and reorganized the entire directory structure of my site ... I am going to take quite a hit in PageRank for a while, but in the end I think that it's going to be a vast improvement over the way I had previously ...

Sleepless SEO Going For Broke - Hard Core Search Engine Optimization

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:19:00 -0500

I have been working on getting my site up to a condition where I feel that it is acceptable enough to start marketing my services cold. I don't really feel that it is quite there yet. I have put in an all night run working on it and it is now 2:00AM ...

Hard Core SEO - Sell or Die ...

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:42:00 -0500

Lately I have come to the realization that the time has arrived to step up and be counted ... Win, Lose or Draw - No mind ... I have been working as an SEO for quite some time now and the results have been good at the level of commitment that I have ...

SEO Services or Company - What to Do?

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:20:00 -0500

I recently parted ways with my employer over a very trivial dispute. Money. Though I had been instrumental in increasing traffic ~ leads ~ revenues for the company, they did not want to return the favor in the form of compensation, so I left. I ...

Search Engine Optimization Keyword Research

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:07:00 -0500

Last month I performed a presentation at the South Florida Coldfusion Users Group. Since the presentation, I have received some requests from some of the people that attended regarding portions of the videos that I created. Though I only touched ...

Ajax Framework for ColdFusion

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:49:00 -0500

As always, I am looking to expand my knowledge and understanding in Rich Internet Application development. Lately, I have been researching throughout the ColdFusion and Object Oriented communities for a solid framework that will be a good foundation ...

ColdFusion Components and OO Java - Closely Related - Not the Same

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:29:00 -0500

Recently I have been reviewing ColdFusion 8 - Beyond the Basics by David Gassner and I have ventured into the world of ColdFusion Components (CFC's). I am starting to get a better understanding of how ColdFusion, or CFML Pages, are processed in the J... [More]

Welcome to ColdFusion (Java?) Programming

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:09:00 -0500

Nine months ago I started to learn how to program in ColdFusion. At that time, I had never programmed before, but I was holding my torch up high for my quest in learning to be a programmer. My sights were really set on Java or C ++ to give me the...

Search Engine Optimization Management

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:01:00 -0500

I recently moved into a search engine optimization management position for a national directory of 34 high volume web sites and I'm very grateful that I received the opportunity. The focus in handling a large group of sites like I have, is to allocat...

Optimizing The ColdFusion SEO Blog

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:54:00 -0500

I have got to give credit where credit is due. Blog CFC is very cool. Ray Camden and everyone that has participated in the development of this project have built a very powerful blogging platform. Hats off guys. There are so many features and comp...

SEO BlogCFC Moves In

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:21:00 -0500

This is the greatest... I have been eagerly awaiting the day that I could actually get to put the BlogCFC in to the site ... There were a lot of obstacles to work around to actually get the Blog together. First and foremost was that I had my site hos...