Dave Keys
Graduation Day
For those of you who were at the graduation, here are my pictures: Graduation Photos
Sorry, but you’ll have to thumb through the photos for your own. I’m not publishing names of school children. I hope you all have a life at least twice as happy as the smiles showed you were feeling that day. Come see us! We’ll be in room 23 next school year.
Para aquellos de ustedes que estuvieron en la graduación, aquí están mis fotos: Graduation Photos
Lo sentimos, pero usted tiene que hojear las fotos para su cuenta. Yo no estoy publicando los nombres de los escolares. Espero que todos ustedes tienen una vida por lo menos dos veces tan feliz como las sonrisas mostró usted se sentía ese día. ¡Venga a vernos! Estaremos en habitación 23 el próximo año escolar.
The Main Effect – Wasn’t Photoshop
This picture was not photoshopped- until today. I put the original first in order below. The basic effect was achieved by a lucky combination of a 1/8 second exposure at f22, slight directional movement of the camera and a breeze. The photoshop applied level adjustments, high pass filter, a little dodging on the tree trunks and one version included some glowing edges effect at a low opacity.
Location: Zion National Park
by Dave Keys, Orange County Photographer
Kelly’s Limo
Limo at Laguna Beach
The limo arrives in Laguna delivering Kelly to her wedding on the beach – 2006.
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Orange County SEO Expert | Search Engine Marketing
I recently wrote a post about Orange County SEO on Activerain. I wrote a very short post, barely long enough for Google to index. SEO is such a competitive field in itself that I expected no visible result from one article- only some link value, but I followed the rules for a post. Rules endorsed by Orange County SEO expert, Steve Wiideman. Steve is actually recognized as the top expert in SEO- any general SEO related Google queries will quickly reveal that. One thing that upset the status quo a few weeks ago was the little post I wrote, that for a while, appeared ahead of Steve’s number one spot. Actually, Steve had slipped to number 3 if I remember correctly and I was number 2. The number 1 website may have been one of his other websites. Like any serious Web marketer and strategist, he has more than one. I ran the query a few times on Google because the term, SEO expert is Steve’s territory. Before long the glory of that ranking for my post faded and it retreated to the bottom of the page.
After that it stayed there for several days, moved to page two and sometimes re-appears on page one.
But it started something new. It started a friendly challenge by Steve. You can see his challenge on my original Orange County SEO post, in the comments.
When Steve comments or posts, pay attention because he’s a force to be reckoned with in the SEO world.
One SEO phenomenon which I’ve been following and about which I’ve been postulating a theory, is Google’s recent real time search, which I believe is a sea-change in the Google search algorithm.
This recent observation started something for Steve and I both. I’m taking a different approach to Steve’s Challenge. Steve plans to go the traditional route of posting content to his blog (already done), placing back-links on Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, etc. while I’m going to pursue my theory that Google likes fresh content and add to my blogs on the topic of Orange County SEO expert, and SEO in general, every day and see whether Google prefers continuous fresh content over older content with back-links. A little time will tell what’s going on with the Google algorithms and the effect of real time search.
Why does all this matter to you, the small business owner or entrepreneur? Because, in the end, what counts is not your SEO effort, but how you turn that SEO into SEM. Results driven Search Engine Marketing. That’s what really counts- how well your web presence converts into sales.
Orange County Web Design and SEO – Low Cost Web Strategies
Low Cost and Web development are not terms that are always parallel in the minds of business owners seeking to leverage the Internet for their product or service, but they can be. If you follow the more traditional ideas about web design, you hire a firm and spend thousands on a website that looks as good as you can afford. Then you realize that you also have to do SEO on the site to get it to rank in Google because it’s nowhere to be found.
That was strategy 2004.
Enter 2009 and 2010. Google’s algorithms have evolved and so has the nature of the Internet. Now it isn’t the look, it’s the relevance and social agility of a website that count toward rankings in Google.
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