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File under boring, self-serving blog posts. After more decades than I care to admit, I'm finally moving to another state and I don't plan to haul my comic books with me. 1,679 comic books spanning more than 60 years. This little link comics-for-sale-all takes you to a spreadsheet listing them all. Sort it as you … Continue reading Selling my comic books 😦
I fired a Hawaii marketing agency a couple of months ago. I was not a client. I'd been providing usability and SEO services to their clients since 2007. (Does that mean I quit?) I grew online business for a few of their big-name clients and received decent money for it. Everybody at the agency was … Continue reading Looking for the best Hawaii digital marketing agency
Research is the smart first step when starting a new SEO campaign or growing an existing SEO effort. I talk with clients to brainstorm a few keyword ideas and then feed those seed keywords into tools to find related keywords. Then, ideally, I look at traffic and competition metrics to identify low hanging fruit of … Continue reading Keyword Research Alternatives to SEOmoz and Wordtracker?
Because it's still relevant, I'll leave my initial robocall fix idea below. But I've had some time to think about robocalls for a few years and I have a better idea. Charge for every call. Find some amount. I'd like to make it high, like a penny. One measly cent. But others have arguments to … Continue reading Robocalls Are Easy To Fix
That SEO and usability don't flourish in a vacuum has been on my mind lately. Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum. If there's nobody to hear your pearls of SEO wisdom do they make a sound? The sound of silence sends no sales. Four cases of constructive complaining follow. Case #1 - Hire Experts + … Continue reading SEO Usability Vacuum
Under a Blanket of Sleep My earliest memories fluttered archetypal dreamscapes of unknowable shapes and otherworldly sounds. I remember not understanding the recurring dream, confusion which no doubt rooted the subtle cerement of fear shrouding this fascinating fancy. That I lacked adequate language to describe it frustrated me more than my inability to understand it. No, … Continue reading Inadvertent Lessons from Safety Town
Dear Amazon Usability Team, 1. I want to stay logged in so that 1-Click ordering is really one click. In the past, if I wanted something from Amazon, I would pop open my browser and I was conveniently already signed in to Amazon. This allowed me to 1-Click order on the fly and enabled me … Continue reading Amazon Usability Feedback – Login Practices
Wordtracker keywords (Photo credit: Matthew Burpee) Update: Eight years later, yet another SEO data vendor failed me, so I did a more recent piece on that reporting vendor search. Here's the original 2010 piece on the frustrating state of keyword research way back when. I recently reluctantly renewed my subscription to Wordtracker, a keyword research … Continue reading Wordtracker KEI Fail, Wordtracker Alternatives & SEO News
A tale of trying to switch back to Verizon for local phone service I use First Communications for local and long distance phone service i.e. my "land line". First Communications is a CLEC, which means they resell an ILEC's (or RBOC's) telephone lines. Verizon is the ILEC/RBOC in my area. Because Verizon sucks, using a … Continue reading Verizon SNAFU
So after posting a few times about the Mexican drug war, I got to thinking about its possible cascading effects. I only wrote about this topic in response to questions I'd received from travelers. But how do the actions of the Mexican drug cartels influence jobs, families and the economy on this side of the … Continue reading Mexican Drug Wars vs US Economy and Families
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