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Keep Calm and Optimize
“Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public,” says Bill in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. Good advice. It’s true for SEO too. The other day I was on a call with Phoenix search engine optimization guru, James Constable, and he realized the audience was daunted. They needed [...]
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Virgin Mobile Brings A Bazooka To The Gun Fight (AKA The Motorola Triumph)
The mobile phone business is a gun fight, and Virgin Mobile has been battling with a knife — until now. Over a year ago, I wrote about how the pre-paid market was perfect for Google Android phones, and Sprint (owner of Virgin Mobile) is finally catching on. The proof is the Motorola Triumph. This is [...]
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Should You Use CloudFlare? I’m Not Anymore.
Oh, CloudFlare. The potential cure for all sorts of bandwidth-related internet issues. We need to breakup. Here’s why: Yes, CloudFlare, you tanked my search traffic. I thought maybe that was my fault. But then Debbie and Anurag complained too. Three times is a pattern, buddy. You break sites. It may be temporary, but that’s not [...]
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I Like the New Sprint-Google Friendliness
Google was getting a little too buddy-buddy with Verizon, right? They were trying to go all evil-empire on mobile net neutrality while rolling out badass phones on T-Mobile. That didn’t make any sense. Meanwhile, their arch-enemy, AT&T, original home of Apple’s iPhone and the most-hated network in America, gave them the cold-shoulder, being the last [...]
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CloudFlare Recap: I [Don't] Like It
A few months ago, I signed up for CloudFlare and added this blog to their service. At first, I was terrified. I hate messing with DNS settings. Then I was jubilant — my bandwidth was down about 40%. Next I was worried, because traffic dropped dramatically. Finally, I was upset — Google had cut me [...]
Google, Please Copy Blekko
Damn, maybe everybody is right and Google is getting worse. Blekko (the new-kid-on-the-block search engine) stumbled across my consciousness again yesterday with this article from TechCrunch. Turns out, Blekko has banned content farms like eHow.com and Encyclopedia.com from its search results. I used to work for the company that ran Encyclopedia.com and I’m fascinated by [...]
Google’s Not Getting Worse, Facebook Is
Google’s search results have been a hot topic lately, because many bloggers have been anecdotally seeing poorer results. Is it true? Matt Cutts, over at the Official Google Blog, says it’s not true … but they’re going to fix it: Nonetheless, we hear the feedback from the web loud and clear: people are asking for [...]
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Why The Traffic Drop After @CloudFlare? Google Hates Me.
CloudFlare is an interesting beast. On one hand, I love it because I like the bandwidth savings. However, CloudFlare is tanking my traffic. Why? Google doesn’t like something. Here’s a chart of Google organic referral traffic to this site: The annoying thing is that it didn’t happen right away. It took a bit. So [...]
Google, Please Offer A CDMA Nexus S So I Can Use It On Virgin Mobile
I have to admit, I miss my Nexus One. The only thing that could make the pain go away would be a CDMA Nexus S (unlocked, of course). Sure, T-Mobile and AT&T are great, but Virgin Mobile’s $25 for unlimited data and 300 voice minutes is a helluva deal. Google, what do you think? Please?
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