Addie and Grandma spend some time playing with odds and ends on the floor after the Christmas gifts are all opened. The light is streaming through the blinds and providing my favorite kind of lighting for photography, angled sunlight. In So Cal, there’s a lot of opportunity for that kind of light in winter.
It seems like all 1 and 2 year olds love this old standby, the plastic house with different colored shapes and colors on characters that only fit in the right chimney. A colored key opens the door to get the characters back out, once you’ve dropped them down the chimney. The younger ones always need [...]
One of my relatives back east sent the family an email in a discussion (we still use an email list- yes I know that’s antiquated) about lighting candles in the house. He said, “Maybe if we light enough candles we can get rid of the smell at FedEx Field in Lanham, Maryland.” I replied, “Now, [...]
This always rattles my cage. Google goes through periods where it indexes my blogs almost immediately. Then seemingly without reason, or perhaps for some small transgression, it stops… Then it starts. Then it waits. Sputtering, sporadic visits, sometimes indexing new posts, sometimes ignoring them. Eventually, the pace picks up again, but it seems that some [...]
I discovered a while back that my profile page on ActiveRain had a PageRank of 2. That piqued my interest because, generally, I always considered it an offshoot of my blog on that website. The reality is that it is a single page that receives referral links from every post and every comment I place [...]
Facebook – you love being in touch with family and friends- and it also has some business value, but those annoying apps! Farmville, and seemingly a thousand others try to clutter your screen. Then there are those who seem to know you’ve hidden those apps so they go on to post about them in their [...]
Analysis is the first and most critical phase of search engine marketing and SEO according to foremost Orange County SEO expert, Steve Wiideman. Steve recently highlighted an online tool at http://keywordcompetitor.com. I tried this tool and first thought it seemed a little clumsy but over a few days use, it has proved to be invaluable. [...]
Matt Cutts has made it clear that there is no penalty for plagiarizing your own content- the algorithms treat it as syndication. Generally, the first appearance gets the best credit. What can easily happen though, is that if your repeat content is close enough to the original, Google may simply pass it by. This is [...]
Competitor creep has started in for my standing on page one of Google for Dave Keys. I’m going to fix that starting right now. Dave Keys is the owner of the websites by the same name, starting with the .net domain where I last posted some pictures about humpback whales in Maui. Dave Keys | [...]
We had Christmas a day early. It started with an overnighter with our house full of people from top to bottom. Diane and I slept in my office on an air mattress- it was actually pretty comfortable. My office is apparently the warmest room in the house. Maybe because of the computers in here. I [...]
