Search, Social, Gaming, and the Internet

Google+ Button For Your Website

Posted by Dan on June 1, 2011 in SEO | Comments Off

It can be pretty difficult to keep up with all of the neat little buttons and widgets that third party websites provide. Twitter has recently added their own Twitter Follow button on top of all their old options for website integrations. Facebook has it’s Like button, Share button, and even a Send button. Reddit offers Vote Up and Vote Down buttons, and Digg offers their own “Digg It” button. It was only a matter of time for Google to make another attempt at social sharing (because Google Buzz’s “BUZZ IT”...

House Hunting, Pirate’s Treasure, and Video Games

Posted by Dan on May 31, 2011 in Everything Else | Comments Off

So May has been a very busy month. In general, this has been the busiest Spring of my life since graduating college a few years back. Between the regular work routine, I’ve also spent the past few months preparing a new site to launch and a database to migrate, we’ve been looking at houses to buy, we’ve been trying to downsize some of our extra stuff that we are obviously not using, and I’ve been trying to get a bit more active in a few virtual communities as well as the local communities. Over the last year,...

A roast of Facebook by the other Social Networks

Posted by Dan on May 27, 2011 in Everything Else | Comments Off

I saw this video on Mashable, originally released by CollegeHumor. This video includes celebrity voices such as Penn Jillette and Gilford Godfrey and a large array of social networks representing the audience. It touches upon some truth of issues with Facebook, but maintains it’s cool with back to back jokes and a little bit of trashtalk thrown at MySpace too… just for...

Spammers, Spammers, Spammers!

Posted by Dan on May 9, 2011 in SEO | 2 comments

It’s hard to believe some of the comments that try to sneak past as “not spam”. For those who don’t know, the reason people spam blogs is to obtain links back to their website. Most bloggers won’t experience a heavy amount of spammers, but if you end up on a “list” somewhere on the Internet, you may get bombarded by spam comments on a daily. One of my blogs gets over 100 spam comments a day, thank God for Akismet! Akismet is a free comment spam prevention plugin that comes pre-packaged with WordPress....

Book Review: SEO Secrets by Danny Dover

Posted by Dan on April 28, 2011 in Everything Else | Comments Off

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets by Danny Dover is an excellent read for both beginning SEOs and advanced SEOs. From a technical stand point, even if you know “everything there is to know” about SEO, you will most likely walk away with a lot of new knowledge from this book. Danny Dover goes into great details of many aspects of SEO, not just the actual optimization of a website. Topics include: SEO Tools, SEO Site Audits, SEO Conference “Need to Knows” – a little bit of everything is touched...