Pilot Butte hike

A little fun at Google's expense (and some serious criticism)

Calling out Google to follow their own recommendations and requirements: my new blog post at 3Q Digital on giving Google a site audit.

Land Rover Rally with Keith, Bradley and Ben

World's fastest police cars...Dubai

Quite a stable here: Ferrari FF, McLaren, Bugatti Veyron, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Lamborghini...

Selling my 2010 MV Agusta F4 1000

I'm turning 50, and sad to admit it, but I need something more practical/comfortable for my week-long tour each summer. Click here to see the listing and photos.

Cool cars from the Hilton Head Island Concours

Richard Pattisall, a client of mine, took these photos at the Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance:

Kauai Night Shots

Diving on Kauai, day 2

Scuba diving on Kauai - Day One

Best of the Maldives

We've put together a collection of some of our favorite Maldivian resorts. Click the photo above to see high-res photos, videos, maps, etc. of these resorts. Or, learn when the best time to visit the Maldives is.

The Psychology of Persuasion with Nathalie Nahai

Podcast with Nathalie Nahai today on making connections with potential customers over the internet.

Advisor Law

My client, Advisor Law, is a business law firm in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. We've been working to get them listed in a number of local business directories:

• Merchant Circle
• Manta
• Get Fave
• Mojo Pages
• Sales Spider
• In Business
• My Fox NY
• Go Local 247
• WLWT
• Orange County Register Yellow Pages
• Show Me Local
• Yesiness
• LinkTown
• HubBiz

As well as the usual places: Google+, HotFrog,

Oregon Airshow

Views of Otter Crest from the north (and a Coast Guard chopper)

Seals at Otter Crest

New travel specials pages on Visual Itineraries

I've done a revamp of the travel specials pages on Visual Itineraries. As a recap, we've been loading all of the specials for our major destinations, from a wide range of wholesalers, on an almost daily basis. It provides our agents with a super-quick way to look up what offers are available for a particular destination, or even a particular hotel--just from their preferred suppliers. Now what we've done is built pages for consumers that show all these specials for a given destination. In the South Pacific, we have:

• Fiji vacations
• Tahiti vacations

In Hawaii, we've covered the four main islands:

• Maui vacations
• Kauai vacations
• Big Island vacations
• Oahu vacations

In the Caribbean, we have:

• Antigua vacations
• Aruba vacations
• Bahamas vacations
• Barbados vacations
• Bermuda vacations
• Costa Rica vacations
• Curacao vacations
• Dominican Republic vacations
• Jamaica vacations
• Puerto Rico vacations
• St. Barts vacations
• St. Kitts and Nevis vacations
• St. Lucia vacations
• St. Maarten vacations
• St. Martin vacations
• Turks and Caicos vacations
• US Virgin Islands vacations
• British Virgin Islands vacations
• Mexico vacations

For Australia and New Zealand:

• New Zealand vacations
• Australia vacations

And in Europe:

• Greece vacations
• Italy vacations
• Spain vacations

Real-world Panda Optimization (Moz Whiteboard Friday)

Here's the full post, with transcription and a flurry of comments :-)

New Google SERP feature for company info

Read all about it on my SEO consulting blog.

County courthouse going digital

My client, Matt Hoff, got a nice mention in this article in the Vancouver Columbian.

Rocketry in Brothers, Oregon

Flight to Scappoose and back

Harry Potter tour

I finally got a Visual Itinerary up for the Harry Potter tour in Watford, England.

Amazing Ferrari engine noises

Harry Potter Tour

Warwick Castle, England

My client, SpotHero in the press

One of my clients, SpotHero, has a website and also smartphone apps to help you find and reserve parking spaces. They've recently received a flurry of press mentions, including:

• NBC
• Entrepreneur
• PCMAG
• Inc.
• WGN 720 radio
• Appolicious
• Crain's New York Business
• Chicago Tribune newspaper
• Boston Herald newspaper
• The Business Journals newspapers

They've also picked up mentions on a number of city-specific information sites:

• Wrigleyville.org
• Wrigley Hostel
• Hannah G. Solomon Elementary School
• alternativeTo
• Peter Pan bus lines
• It's America
• Visit New Jersey
• This Ain't the Summer of Love blog
• Washington.org

2014 SEO Predictions

Nice round-up of SEO predictions for 2014 is here, including a bit by me, and a bit by fellow SEMpdx board member Scott Hendison.