The Experiment

For years, several friends of mine have been trying to get me laid. They failed miserably. The biggest problem is that we have radically different priorities when it comes to…

Survival Is Not Enough

It has been a year since the Station Fire roared through my neighborhood, destroying over three-quarters of the homes here, not to mention the homes and businesses lost elsewhere in…

Happy Independence Day!

July is always thought provoking for me. Something to do with the fact that it’s my birth-month, the 4th of July, random stuff like that…

Saying Goodbye to 2009

As 2009 comes to an end, I look back at all the changes it brought to so many forest dwellers. The Station Fire began modestly enough, but, like all things…

SEO 101: Love Your Body

Now that we’ve explored how you can use your HEAD content to improve search engine listings, let’s move along to the BODY portion of your HTML code. Even if you…

SEO 101: Use Your HEAD, Part V: Meta Description

Like the TITLE tag, the META Description tag was once looked upon as an afterthought, something you played around with when you had nothing better to do with your time.…

Great Site for Analytics Junkies

As part of my endless and ongoing quest for solutions to SEO problems for clients and friends, I have been doing additional research lately regarding website analytic tools. (In English…

SEO 101: Use Your HEAD, Part IV: Meta Keywords

In the strange and confusing world of META tags, there are two that every online marketer knows about, even if what they think they know is wrong. The two tags…