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SEO tip for canonical urls

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Search engines see different domains as different sites. For instance:
“www.attorneyproz.com” is different from “attorneyproz.com.”

The www part of the url (referred to as the subdomain) is important when considering how to structure your URL’s. So its important to make all of you URLS redirect to one place. Below is a chunk of code you can add to your .htaccess file in your root directory to clean up this multi-domain issue known as Canonicalization.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^socialpatterns\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.socialpatterns.com/$1 [R=301,L]

To learn more about what this code means and what it does checkout SEO marketing tips from www.socialpatterns.com.

Southern California Software Developers

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I came across this site while looking for some developers to work on various web software projects I had in the queue.

These guys are some of the brightest in the industry. If you need some software developers to help you with your projects then these are the guys to outsource to. You can check out their site at: www.eveny.net

Backorder A Domian

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Wow. I just read this amazing and intriguing blog written a few years back on back ordering a web site address.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain

Where the Wild Things are… Disappointing

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The wild things were cool, but the story was pointless. They got too artsy with it; there was no purpose, no meaning, no lesson learned, nothing to take away. The story just didn’t resolve, or connect, or mature into anything. It was a 2 hour display of human negativity.

The emotions of the creatures and max were to complicated, mixed, and obscure for a child to get let alone an adult.

The movie was very depressing and treated emotions like they were a depressing part of life that you just had to put up with. And the movie focused almost completely on the negative emotions. Very little was positive and if there was something positive iit was short lived because something negative would always come wipe it away.

It was very disappointing watching this film. I expected something better, something simpler for a book that was a big part of my childhood.

Don’t take your kids they will be bored to death watching this film.

Pear Web California Twitter Revival

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

So I have recently started playing with Twitter again. I signed up for an account long ago but never made anything of it. I have been waiting to find a decent use for it before I started investing any real time into it.

Well, I’ve found a use. And now Twitter has jump started me into a whole new realm of prospects and potential. Maybe not in the ways I would have initially thought but its definitely been eye opening.

I am still trying to find Twitters real value. And its not been easy sifting through the mounds of tweeting garbage being posted everyday. But I am certain that if I keep mining through the data we will eventually find a few nuggets of wisdom and value.

Follow me on twitter and lets see what we can find.

http://twitter.com/cpear

Terminator Salvation the Ride? Don’t you mean Psychlone?

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Have you seen the Ads for the new terminator ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia? Did you notice how they don’t actually show you the roller coaster? Well thats because they don’t want you to know their dirty little secret. The new Terminator is the old Psychlone roller coaster. They just changed the name!

Imagine how disappointed my whole family was when we went to six flags to check it out. What a scam. Don’t waste your time if your looking for a new ride.

Fix a clogged toilet

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Wow I just had to unclog a toilet and this article helped me do it fast!

How awesome!

Read: Fix a Clogged Toilet here.

HTML Layer Transparency

Monday, May 18th, 2009

With the onset of IE8 and Fire Fox 3 we now have the proper technology for designing sites the way we always wanted to.

Its time to start taking advantage of newer techniques like transparency in layers.

I found a great article that makes it simple by applying 2 simple styles to your layer:
www.shrutigupta.com

Have fun!

Operation Sith – Dark Forces Custom Level

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Wow, so about 12 years ago I took a stab at creating a custom level for the Star Wars video game Dark Forces. I just came across the level where it can still be downloaded, along with what I am calling “my first professional review.” Enjoy!

http://www.df-21.net/reviews/crowsnest/sith.html

Two ways to increase your websites return on investment (ROI)

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Want to increase the ROI of your web site? Well here are 2 simple ways:

  • Improve your sites search engine optimization (SEO) – make your website visible to search engines.
  • Improve your sites usability – make your site easier to use and more efficient.

In layman’s terms: you can increase your ROI by increasing the traffic to your web site. And, make it as easy as possible for that traffic to make its way to your goods and services.

“It doesn’t matter how good your content is, nor how pretty your web site looks, or even how cool the new Flash functionality works. If users can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. If they can’t find it, they cannot convert [from leads to sales]” (re:cognition).

Check out this aticle: The Benefits of Usability and SEO. It provides an in depth look at these 2 concepts.