Blogging

I've had a lot of conversations about search engine optimization recently. Opportunities abound for businesses, bloggers, e-commerce vendors, website owners among others to take advantage of a few basics when it comes to SEO. You have to start somewhere and in my experience there are basics that a lot of people miss that, when adhered to, can do a lot to help.

For those, like me, who take a keen interest in such things there's no shortage of information, best practices, and methods to learn about, know about and to try. However, for a lot of people that are in business on the web - bloggers, brick and mortars, etc. - it's hard to know where to start, what you need to know and even how much you can affect your search engine rankings.

This post isn't going to be about PPC, adwords or anything like that. It's about the two sides to the SEO coin - on-page optimization, and off-page optimization. Get these concepts down and maximize your efforts there and you will see a definite increase in the quality of your traffic.    Read more »

It's that time of year again when we're all in high-gear trying to find creative gifts to give to friends and loved ones, and thoughtful gifts are always the best. From big, extravagant, outside-the-box gifts like a MacBook Pro, or a stand-up desk to smaller, practical (and incredibly useful) ones like a pound of really good coffee, or a Field Notes notebook, this list was compiled to give you all kinds of ideas. 

Some of the most memorable gifts I've received haven't been expensive at all. You don't have to spend a lot of money on gifts for them to be awesome. 

I've sorted the list in to a couple different categories to make it a little more readable. Here are 40 suggestions that should help you find something awesome.    Read more »

What a week! After waging war with Comcast for most of the week trying to get our internet working like it should I'm ready for the weekend. During the vast quantities of time that my internet was completely down I caught up on a lot of reading and decided it was time to start doing some new cool stuff on my blog.

And so begins what will be my weekly "good stuff" collection post of cool stuff I've found. It will consist of things that I've collected over the week that are what I call "good stuff". Good stuff means that it's something that is just plain good content. So I hope that you find some "good stuff" here.

And a tip of the cap to Davis and the folks at Comcast, they got it done and I'm back to warp speed on the internet - thanks!    Read more »