I’m taking a break from blogging for a few days, due to some personal and professional things I have to straighten out.
I’ll be back with a vengeance as soon as both of those are taken care of. It’ll probably be around a week or so.
For those of you who are hockey fans, Hockey Hype has been relaunched. Hockey Hype is a site where the owners select the best news (hype), videos, events, products and a bunch of other stuff pertaining to the NHL, IIHF, minor league hockey, junior hockey, Olympic hockey, etc.
The site primarily gathers the best of the stories and videos du jour from various news sources (manually, none of that automated scraping crap) and displays them on the various sections of the site. It’s not an overly complicated site or anything, but it looks pretty cool IMHO (and I’m not the one who did the graphics for it…someone else did and I just put them together.)
The Product Hype section is new, and I think the products are going in today but it might be this weekend. So if you see nothing there, that’s the reason.
So have a look, leave some comments (on the site or on here), let us know what you think.
Sometimes help comes from unexpected sources. When a client of mine and I were having issues with eBay last week, I received help from just such a source: Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today.
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Sometimes, bizarre incidents happen to me, and I end up running into some of the dumbest customer service representatives on the planet. Yesterday was no exception.
I needed to get a US money order printed for an invoice, so I went to the Perfect Gift Canada Post outlet at Centerpoint Mall. The woman at the Canada Post desk calculated my order total, and I went to pay with my Interac (Canadian bank debit card). Seems like a simple enough transaction, right?
Apparently a comment I made yesterday triggered a certain offline response. Based on that response, I’ve decided to create a “Top 10″ list of my own. The following list represents the ten most important rules associated with SEO, so that even the biggest idiot sucking Cheez Whiz from a jar in his trailer’s refrigerator while “surfin’ dat Innerweb” on AOL can become an A-list SEO.
WARNING: Since many of these have never been mentioned before, they may lead to other little-known discoveries. The planet Earth is in the shape of a dodecahedron; professional sports leagus don’t have problems with unofficial pharmaceuticals; and the sun really does shine on a sleeping dog’s ass.
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That’s right, kids. I’m starting out the week with a blockbuster announcement guaranteed to work for anyone with the same mad skillz that I have. Using this miracle technique, you too can rank #1 for any keyword or phrase, regardless of the number of results or competition for the phrase.
It doesn’t involve link exchanges or other schemes.
It doesn’t involve on-the-page optimization.
It doesn’t involve blogs.
It doesn’t involve cloaking.
It doesn’t involve any established SEO techniques whatsoever.
It’s all new, and it’s all free! Marvel as I get myself to the top of google.ca for the movie “Sling Blade” despite having no related content whatsoever!
Are you ready? Great, let’s go!
What a weird week it has been for search this week. While most queries were relevant in the sense that all the words were mentioned, quite a few of them had nothing to do with the theme of the topic.
We’ve got obscure baseball player info.
We’ve got info on country musicians.
We’ve got information on upcoming slot tournaments.
We’ve got information on buffet reviews.
And we’ve got information on song lyrics.
I had to take my monthly trip on the TTC subway last Saturday (yeah, I should really ride subways/buses more, but unfortunately none of them get anywhere close to the destinations that I need to get to; hence the 4-cylinder car). I was on my way home, in the Yonge/Bloor terminal, when I noticed this sign:
At first I was somewhat confused. If you look closely at the bottom left of the photograph, you’ll see a logo containing the words “Toronto Transit Cares 2005.” 2005? TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE? Why the hell didn’t they take down the 2005 sign?!?!?!?! It’s 2007, dammit!
But wait…in the same terminal, maybe 50 feet away, I saw this sign:
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I was tipped off to a TVOntario debate on the value of Facebook as a tool. Within the debate, it seemed to be universally accepted that Facebook is a useful and sustainable tool for social networking and that Microsoft’s recent purchase of an approximately 2% share of Facebook was entirely justified.
However, the CEO of Microsoft himself, Steve Ballmer, has been quoted as saying Facebook is a fad just before Microsoft made its acquisition, a quote that has the distinct implication that the site won’t be anywhere near as popular within a year or two.
Is he right? I think he is, and here’s why:
I don’t have much to say today, since the song and the images in this video say it all for me.
Big and Rich recorded a song in 2005 called The 8th of November, the story of a wounded Vietnam War medic named Lawrence Joel who risked his life to save his fellow soldiers.
