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.

Deer up close and personal at Eagle Crest

Ducks at Cline Falls, Redmond, Oregon

Kids and deer at Eagle Crest

Having fun with Gianluca's blog post

It blows me away that Gianluca's wrap-up of Google changes this year and predictions for next year doesn't yet rank #1 for the phrase epochal infrastructural change. :-D

Canadian heli-hockey

This...well....just watch the damn video!

Spinner dolphins in Kauai

Fall colors

On the Visual Itineraries Blog: social media explained

I wrote this piece today for the blog...I think it actually does a decent job of explaining the search marketing benefits of each of these major social media channels.

Shark Lagoon Cam!

Live streaming video by Ustream From the Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California.

ACA Website Performance

From the team at Portent Interactive comes this illuminating look at the rather appalling bad performance of the websites the states built for ACA (aka Obamacare). The full article is here.

How fast is ObamaCare? - An infographic by the team at Portent. Click for full size image.

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Portland Society Page coverage of SEMpdx Benefit Event

Nice coverage of the October 2013 SEMpdx event, benefiting the Myrtle Point Library Foundation in my parents' honor, on the Portland Society Page.

Article on identifying the cause of a traffic drop

This just went up today at the Act-on Marketing blog...a post about Google's Angry Birds (Penguin vs. Hummingbird), and how to know whether it's an algorithm change in general (like Hummingbird), or a penalty (like Penguin) that caused a big traffic drop for your website.