Color is ubiquitous. You can find it anywhere and everywhere and quite often we don’t consciously think about what it means, but we do “feel” color. Those feelings are an inherent part of us. They inspire feelings of relaxation, peace, or even, sometimes, caution or anger. Why do the stars relax in a “green” room? How does a red button or sign affect us?  Why do babies cry more in a yellow room? The answer is that color has different meanings to different cultures. The [...]

Of all of the industries that exist in the online marketing and web design world, SEO may just be the one with the most negative reputation. In part, that reputation may be deserved. About half of the things you read about SEO, or search engine optimization, are that some company or another has been slapped for gaming the search engines, or for practicing black hat or other methodology in SEO. A good case in point is the link building scam that was perpetrated by J.C. [...]

I believe in online volunteerism. Those of you who know me have seen and shared in a lot of what I care about. I do a great deal of online work and I promote it every chance that I can. In fact, sometimes I promote it HERE. In November’s Item I related how Doe Network could help you to make a difference by volunteering online from your computer and your living room.   I help with the teams or donate money to WordPress, Firefox Support, [...]

Most people see SEO, or Search Engine optimization, as a way to get search traffic. They use it in order to attain better internet visibility, and to bring traffic to their site. That’s the whole concept of it right? SEO can be link building, on page SEO, content writing, traffic driving and many other things. These things are separate entities, but are also part of a whole SEO trend and marketing plan for a healthy site. The term or phrase SEO can be used to [...]

Are you one of those site owners who has had your content stolen and used on someone elses site? Are you relatively tired of getting duplicate content and paying good money for it? There are a few decent tools out there that can help you to detect it, such as Copyscape, but we all know that they’ve got a few issues and may not give us precisely what we’re looking for to avoide getting duplicate content on our websites. SAFE Corporation announced the release of [...]

Do Manners Go Out the Window in the Name of Backlinks? The answer, sadly, is yes, they do. I am consistently amazed at how many bloggers will come to your blog and not say a single word and then leave forty links and assume you’re too silly or new or just hopelessly inept at security to use a spam filter or require moderation.. Little tip for all of you, if you want a backlink.. ask.. if you try to spam us with Viagra and other [...]

Senate panel approves domain name seizure bill Now if nothing in the past has scared you about the Obama administrations plans for the internet this one should. The Senate panel has just approved a bill that will permit the government to steal your website and domain name if you are ACCUSED or SUSPECTED of piracy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation NEEDs your donations to fight this. . Apparently it’s not enough for Obama to have a “kill the internet ” switch, but NOW he wants one [...]

When you’re writing, and printing, they keep things in a nice tidy line so you can send out secret messages… much like the one Arnold sent to one of his rivals last year when composing his missive that was a rejection of a proposal.  The letter, sent to Democrat Tom Ammiano’s Assembly Bill 1176. Now you have just  got to love this kind of coincidence. The first letters of the paragraphs all line up quite nicely to spell out F*CK YOU… now could you do [...]

Well I’ve been talking recently about how to make money online for those of you who are considering making affiliate sales part of what you do on your blogs. Now let’s talk about how not to make money. Just Host is the Best way to NOT make money online. I work for multiple companies all over the world. Graeme Ingram, from Wales, coincidentally owner of RHWH SEO Services..  (Great company, but I digress)  asked me to recommend two hosting companies to him. Graeme likes to [...]

It’s a jump on the Christmas season, definitely, but the fact is that people are anticipating Christmas, ordering their gifts earlier, finding more stuff online that’s cheap and buying earlier so that they get good deals. A lot of searches are going on for Christmas gifts, Christmas lights, and Christmas everything else. Granted its a bit early but with our economy hey, getting things early and getting them cheaper is the only way to go. Buy Christmas online now and give yourself plenty of time [...]

I don’t know about you, but I”m a picture taking fool, and my entire hard drive is littered with photos of kids, grand kids, cousins, aunts, uncles, storms, lightning strikes and the odd stray deer and porcupine. When it comes time to send those out to people I pass them along in droves, to the point of driving my relatives to utter distraction. I was fairly shocked to find out that some folks aren’t sure how to send their photos in email, even those who [...]

NoAdware is being touted as the next best thing since pockets and peanut butter for those who want to travel more safely on the net. The reality is that NoAdware.net has been submitted to the CNN forums as a ripoff as well as being listed multiple times on the Ripoff Report. What is the reason for that kind of negative rating for an anti adware software? While we love great software, that which is somewhat less than great, but makes a ca-CHING sound for the [...]

We have a lot of fun and we get a little irreverent here at times, but the fact is that some things need to be a little more serious. This one is one that we think is worth your time to take a second look at and take it seriously. The world is becoming a veritable treasure trove of technology. Now while that’s a positive things, there are some negative connotations to everything, including computers. Recycling  computer, and also the peripherals is really a necessity [...]

The Apple Ipad, a gorgeous new touch screen from Apple has certainly got what it takes to change the face of portable computing in a huge way. As an Ebook reader it is outstanding and well able to handle nearly anything you throw at it. Apple has also instituted an Apple iBooks store that will go into partnership with many of the major publishing houses although one or two of the giants are conspicuously missing. As a reader, iPad is superior in many ways. The [...]

One of the coolest thing sto come along in long time, Under 25 Dollars.com. Just in it’s infancy ( and fairly proud to be part of it) we can see where this might be a hot new tool to give us some great stuff for a lower price. New Stuff pops on there daily and who knows, it might be just the low cost products that you’re looking for. Hot new freebies and low cost for pay items show up every single day. We’re seeing [...]