Category Archives: Technology

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My Next Journey: Build SEO Tools

I’m going build SEO Tools to save me from boredom! Ok ok, so I’m really not sure how much boredom this will really save me from (as I am incredibly busy these days), but this is definitely one more thing to add to my list of projects; and make a priority! A colleague of mine…

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Optimizing Video for Search – The Missing …Link?

Recently I was asked what I know about optimizing video for organic search.  I of course responded with, “well, having very little hands on experience with it, I would have to say that I am only familiar with the best practices in a general sense.” These would be things like using the targeted keyword in…

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Should be a Given, But Still Very Important: Web Analytics Maintenance

For all of you other WordPress geeks and theme whores (pardon my French) out there like me, I just have to make mention of something that is critically important: When changing themes, make SURE your web analytics tracking code is carried over. To give a wee-bit of insight, I learned this the hard way just…

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Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) for n00bs

I recently re-installed Ubuntu from scratch on a machine at home.  The previous installation had been loaded with tons of cruft because of my haphazard installation of just about everything I could possibly try.  One of those haphazard installations was Ruby on Rails. And as a haphazard installation implies, I had issues.  Sadface. But as…

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