My latest blog post on SEOmoz: URL rewriting and 301 redirects using 404 handlers.
Serious SEO technie nerds only need apply.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Blog post on SEOMoz on RewriteRule
Apache webservers have a really cool and useful little feature called RewriteRule. It's sometimes referred to as the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation, because it's got two very important, often-used abilities: URL rewriting, and 301 redirection.
Read the blog post on SEOMoz.
Read the blog post on SEOMoz.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Portland, Estonia
Found an interesting quirk in Google local search today. I was looking for a particular company's placement (HTG) in Google local results. Google correctly spotted that I was in Portland, OR, and showed the following:

Clicking on "More results near Portland, OR" produced the following:

If you zoom out, you'll discover it's showing Estonia. Note that they get the sponsored results right, though...Portland.

Clicking on "More results near Portland, OR" produced the following:

If you zoom out, you'll discover it's showing Estonia. Note that they get the sponsored results right, though...Portland.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Press Release for new Austin Property Management Website
Just distributed this press release for my client, Prime Properties of Austin, which was picked up by the following sites:
- 24-7 Press Release
- Real Estate Today
- World News Report
- EIN Presswire
- Consumer News Today
- Inbox Robot
- News Blaze
- Dotcom News Articles
- Dotcom PR News
- Internet News Articles
- Internet PR News
- Construction News Articles
- Construction PR News
- Industry News Articles
- Industry PR News
- Business News Articles
- Business PR News
- Real Estate PR News
- Entrepreneur News Articles
- Entrepreneur PR News
- Ecommerce News Articles
- Ecommerce PR News
- New Websites News Articles
- New Websites PR News
- Supplychain News Articles
- Real Estate News Articles
- Small Business News Articles
- Small Business PR News
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Houston Chronicle
- Chicago Daily Herald
- The Miami Herald
- NewsOK Oaklahoma News
- UPI.com News
- Columbus Dispatch
- Newsday
- SignOnSanDiego
- Social Picks
Monday, May 24, 2010
More Press for Sunspots Safaris
The press release we just sent out announcing the new Trophy Red Stag New Zealand Hunting website was picked up by a lot of sites:
Thanks, 24-7 Press Release! :-)
- 24-7 Press Release
- Travel Industry Today
- World News Report
- EIN Presswire
- Consumer News Today
- Inbox Robot
- News Blaze
- Lifestyle News Articles
- Lifestyle PR News
- Tourism News Articles
- Internet News Articles
- Internet PR News
- New Websites News Articles
- New Websites PR News
- Industry News Articles
- Industry PR News
- Hospitality News Articles
- Hospitality PR News
- Firearms News Articles
- Firearms PR News
- Environment News Articles
- Environment PR News
- Mens News Articles
- Mens PR News
- Sports News Articles
- Sports PR News
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Houston Chronicle
- Chicago Daily Herald
- The Miami Herald
- NewsOK Oaklahoma News
- UPI.com News
- Columbus Dispatch
- Newsday
- SignOnSanDiego
- Social Picks
Thanks, 24-7 Press Release! :-)

Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Just launched Red Stag Hunting New Zealand site
Just completed and launched the first of our game-specific micro-sites for Sunspots Safaris: www.redstaghuntingnewzealand.com.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Funny aviation one-liners
'It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.'
- US.Air Force Manual -
'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
- Sign over SR71 Wing Ops-
'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'
- Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)-
'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
-Unknown Author-
'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage it has to be a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'
- Fixed Wing Pilot-
'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
-Multi-Engine Training Manual-
'Without ammunition, the Air Force is just an expensive flying club.'
-Unknown Author-
'If you hear me yell;"Eject, Eject, Eject!", the last two will be echos.'
If you stop to ask "Why?", you'll be talking to yourself, because by then you'll be the pilot.'
-Pre-flight Briefing from a Canadian F104 Pilot-
The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in military aviationare:'Did you feel that?' 'What's that noise?' and'Oh S...!'
-Authors Unknown-
'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'
-Basic Flight Training Manual-
'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'
- Emergency Checklist-
'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.'
- Attributed to Max Stanley ( Northrop test pilot) -
- US.Air Force Manual -
'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
- Sign over SR71 Wing Ops-
'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'
- Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)-
'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
-Unknown Author-
'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage it has to be a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'
- Fixed Wing Pilot-
'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
-Multi-Engine Training Manual-
'Without ammunition, the Air Force is just an expensive flying club.'
-Unknown Author-
'If you hear me yell;"Eject, Eject, Eject!", the last two will be echos.'
If you stop to ask "Why?", you'll be talking to yourself, because by then you'll be the pilot.'
-Pre-flight Briefing from a Canadian F104 Pilot-
The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in military aviationare:'Did you feel that?' 'What's that noise?' and'Oh S...!'
-Authors Unknown-
'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'
-Basic Flight Training Manual-
'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'
- Emergency Checklist-
'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.'
- Attributed to Max Stanley ( Northrop test pilot) -
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Flickr profile update
Managed to update Sunspots Safari's profile on Flickr to include a backlink :-)
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunspots Safaris in Google LBC
Now, even Google Local Business Center knows about Sunspots Safaris :-)
New Sunspots Safaris page on AboutUs.org
Just finished putting up a page for Sunspots Safaris on AboutUs.org (another Portland-based internet company, in fact):
www.aboutus.org/BigGameHuntingNewZealand.com
www.aboutus.org/BigGameHuntingNewZealand.com
Kimihia Hunting Safaris photos
Just added a Flickr album for Kimihia hunting packages in New Zealand.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Sunspots Safaris press release
Sent out a press release about the new big game hunting site I built for Sunspots this morning, and it's been picked up a lot of places already:
- 24-7 Press Release
- Travel Industry Today
- Marketing & Advertising Industry Today
- Inbox Robot
- EIN News
- Consumer News Today
- News Blaze
- Lifestyle News Articles
- Lifestyle PR News
- Tourism News Articles
- Leisure News Articles
- Leisure PR News
- Recreation News Articles
- Recreation PR News
- Internet News Articles
- Internet PR News
- New Websites News Articles
- New Websites PR News
- Industry News Articles
- Industry PR News
- Sports News Articles
- Sports PR News
- Outdoor Sports News Articles
- Outdoor Sports PR News
- Transportation News Articles
- Transportation PR News
- Tourism PR News
- Travel News Articles
- Travel PR News
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Houston Chronicle
- Chicago Daily Herald
- The Miami Herald
- NewsOK Oaklahoma News
- UPI.com News
- Columbus Dispatch
- Newsday
- SignOnSanDiego
- Social Picks
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