by Lynn Rockwell on February 10, 2009
in SEO
I just learned something new today that I thought I’d share, because I’m sure there are others like myself that are learning this stuff. This is pretty cool for those that are new to creating SEO friendly code, like myself. With this code you can create buttons with link text that is readable by the search engines, plus you can also create buttons that are reusable rather than having to create a button for each variation of the same button that you want to put different text into.
Let me give you an example of this. I had two buttons on one of my pages. They were exactly the same except for the text. One button I wanted to read “Compare” and the other read “Reviews”. Plus it would be extremely helpful if the search engines actually read that text and followed my link to those pages. [click to read more…]
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by Lynn Rockwell on January 12, 2009
in SEO
I want to share a few tips I’ve learned about using Title tags and Meta Description tags that are both SEO friendly as well as user friendly. Many times these two little items are the most overlooked by new website owners and new internet marketers, but yet can be the top traffic “getters” or top traffic “killers” for your site.
For those not familiar with them, both of these html tags go in the header section of your code – so between the <head> and </head> lines of code.
The title tag is pretty straight forward and looks like this <title> Put your Title Here</title>.
The description meta tag looks like this <meta name=”description” content=”Put your description here.” />
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I find that my motivation tends to come and go just as reliably as the tides, and as the motivation wanes, in floods all the self-doubt along with the questions about what the heck I’m doing, and conflicts about pursuing my dreams versus getting my butt back to a “real” job.
Sound at all familiar? Why is it that we do this to ourselves? After all we tell our children, on a daily basis, to believe in themselves, to go for what they want with all their might and determination, and not let anything hold them back. That they can be anything they want to be if they set clear goals, have a thought out plan, and if they work for it and believe in it nothing can hold them back. But yet, we somehow hold ourselves to a lower, or at least a “different” standard at various points in our lives. This is a double standard at the least, and as our children get older and wiser, as mine seem to get each year I get older 
, they could say a bit hypocritical even!
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by Lynn Rockwell on November 12, 2008
in Cool Stuff
As I’ve been working on developing my affiliate sites this past year, I’ve come across some other cool sites with some absolutely great information, and just general COOL stuff. I figured I’d put it in one place, and share it with everyone. Oh, most of these are not affiliate links – only where I’ve specifically stated so.
- This first one, is a collection of “cheat sheets”, everything from CSS Cheat Sheets, to Mod_rewrite Cheat Sheets, to Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheets, to PHP Cheat Cheat Sheets, to HTML Cheat Sheets, to even a World of Warcraft Cheat Sheet. This is one of the best reference sites, I’ve stumbled upon… Added Bytes by Dave Child. This guy is WAY more organized than I am, or ever hope to be.
- Another site I found that may interest some of you is this one: The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout by Matthew James Taylor. It provides you with a series of website layouts that use percentage widths and relative positioning, that work with all the common web browsers. They are SEO friendly, and contain no CSS hacks. This one was referred to me via Stomping the Search Engines 2.
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As many of you already know, that follow me, or who just know me, I’ve spent most of the summer working through Jeremy Palmer’s
Black Ink Project. I was one of his original 1000 sign-ups for the launch that he did back at the beginning of May. After finishing Black Ink 1, I was definitely hooked. I needed and wanted to learn everything I possibly could at that point, from a person who obviously had been doing this very successfully himself, and who had proven he was very capable of translating that knowledge into training that was understandable to a total “newbie” like myself. So, I was one of the first ones to sign up for Black Ink 2 when he announced he would be doing it as a sequel to Black Ink.
People who know me, also know that I do not promote anything that I have not tried, do not use myself, and do not believe in! I just don’t go there, period! Even with my review and comparison websites, I tell it like it is, even if that means I end up rating a product #1, that will make me less money as an affiliate than another product. Now the uber-affiliates may call me foolish for doing this, but that’s my business model.
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I’m just going to warn you right off the bat that I’m going to vent a bit in this post. Ok, so you’ve been warned.
Well, I’ve been trying to round up a couple of freelance or contracting projects lately, and to say that my efforts have been less than successful would be a slight understatement. It seems that my submissions are getting absorbed into some huge black hole of oblivion.
And you know what? This really rather “peeves” me off! Especially when the posting is made by a recruiter working for a major head hunter, who can afford to pay $200 per ad he/she places on these major job boards. And don’t give me the old, “we get so many responses we can’t possibly respond to them all” response… I don’t buy it, never have, and never will. If people take the time to respond to a job posting, they at least deserve the standard old “dear john, although you have impressive qualifications…. blah, blah, blah” letter of the past. Or if you want to be truly mean, “Dear John, You Suck. Good Luck”
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Welcome to my new blog. As you can tell, I’m just getting things going, but please check back often.
The focus of this blog basically is what the title says Life Style is a Choice. It took me a long time to realize that, and to start living my life based on my choices, rather than letting others exercise undue influence over those choices. When I finally realized this, and started creating my Life Style based on my own choices, and the things that are important to me and my family, it was amazing how our lives started to change.
So this blog is about my journey (past, present, and my thoughts on future endeavors) – how I got here, my mistakes, my successes, and oh my gosh, everything in between! Are you ready? Not sure I am.. but here we go! [click to read more…]
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