Your Favorite Web Sites from Over 20 Years Ago

It is amazing to see how much web design has changed over the past 20+ years.  Looking at some of the old sites will make you want to puke. 1) MSN.com – Not really known for brand identity? Well, at least in this case.  This screen shot is actually from 1996. 2) Apple.com – Aint …

5 Lies Pittsburgh SEO Companies Like to Tell

Yeah, this sounds like another “fluff” article on SEO, but please let me explain.  Pittsburgh SEO companies and also SEO companies in general (off-shore, hired marketing firms, other SEO gurus) are always telling you the best way to optimize your site is to hire them.  Their expertise is beyond you and their promises are through …

SEO for Google Images

One thing to always remember is to take advantage of SEO for Google Images.  Just a few tips to take advantage of getting indexed in Google with your Images. (From Digital Point) Make sure you don’t miss out on the traffic image search can bring (if you post images on your blog or website) here …

Where do Guinea Pigs Sleep?

Continuing with my posts about caring for guinea pigs, I wanted to talk a little about where guinea pigs sleep.  Yeah, they sleep, in your house, but where in particular should they sleep?  I suggest getting a nice cage for them with plenty of wiggle room, a little igloo-like house and a thing called a …

how to take care of guinea pigs

You may be wondering why I asked how to take care of guinea pigs? Well I came home one day and there were two guinea pigs at my house. My wife had surprised my daughter (and me) by getting her guinea pigs as gifts. But how do you take care of a guinea pigs?  What did anything to …

Why Pay for inbound links? Because it works.

Inbound links play a giant role in how Google ranks your pages and sites.  Sometimes it is quite difficult to get those inbound links organically.  You could always pay an agency to buy links for you, or you could search the web and find relevant places to purchase your inbound links. I’ve recently been reading …

Top 5 Search Engines

Search engine optimization is my number one passion, so when I hear anything related to search engines and the promoting of websites as a paid service, I get a little suspect. Most recently I heard a commercial from Verizon that states they will promote your new business website to hundreds of search engines.  100s? get …

Pittsburgh Drupal Group

I’ve been a strong proponent of using either Joomla or WordPress as the basis of any content management platform.  I’ve done some work in the past with Drupal but found it to be a little clunky and cluttered for my taste.  However last night I was able to attend the Pittsburgh Drupal Group held at …

Black Hat Article Generation Secrets

It is no secret to many "black hat" SEO folks that one of their favored approaches to building site content is by using automatic article generation. Please allow me to explain, for those of you who are not familiar with this. The trick is to generate lots of unique content that either contains Adsense ads …