Colorado Cobras Reach Milestone on Father’s Day

As a Father of two, I got asked a couple times what I was doing for Father’s Day and replied ‘Baseball’.    But, baseball gave me an unexpected Father’s Day gift today as I was able to witness a very gritty performance by my 10 year old Son and his baseball team.
Just the day before, my [...]

Keyword Rankings – Google Top 10 or Bust!

In our SEO business, we use a combination of metrics to measure the success of a particular SEO campaign and one of those metrics is the actual ranking for a group of targeted keywords. Our thought process is to create a list of targeted keywords focus on a combination of variables such as search [...]

FLASH SEO – Deep Links & Page Titles With SWF Address

SWF Address is a code library that provides deep linking in FLASH and AJAX allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a particular website section or application state.
Here are some examples from the showcase on the product website:

Nike Skateboarding Home Page
Nike Skateboarding Media Page

This is good for deep linking and mistakenly thought [...]

2009 Must Have Applications For Our Business

I often get asked “What are the internet tools that you couldn’t live without for your business?”.  As an enterprenuer, I feel one of my strengths is to leverage avaiable technology into solutions for both my company and its’ clients.
Here are a few examples:

Dual Monitors – Running two monitors is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’.  I [...]

Internet Stock Watch

GOOG – Short interest high after job cuts on Nov 26th. http://seekingalpha.com/article/108133-google-short-interest-increases-on-job-cuts-news
YHOO – Icahn increases Yahoo holdings. Stock up 8% today. http://seekingalpha.com/article/108350-icahn-swims-against-the-tide-increases-yahoo-holdings
EBAY – http://seekingalpha.com/article/108333-opportunity-to-make-a-profit-on-ebay
AKAM – Featured as a strong Under $10 Speculative Play
OMTR – Up 25% in 5 days, but so is the whole market. http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:OMTR
MSFT – Losing Ground to Google, but not Yahoo http://seekingalpha.com/article/108161-share-of-online-searches-by-engine-october-2008
Other [...]

Is FriendFeed A Twitter Competitor?

FriendFeed is a program that allows one to keep current with your friends’ or family’s shared files such as photos, videos, websites or music selections.  I decided to check it out this morning and was able to quickly setup an account at http://friendfeed.com/chuckaikens
Once you using up for FriendFeed you can customize your feed with that [...]

Are Google Results Affected By IP Address or Web History?

I have heard many times that Google delivers personalized results based on both your IP address and your web history.  While this may be true, it may not be statistically significant for a clients’ highest volume organic keywords.
Let me share my findings from an hour or two of research today.  My process was to perform [...]

Local Search – No Clear Leader

Local Search generally means a search to find some type of business, such as a Mexican restaurant or doctor’s office, within a specific neighborhood. It uses a specialized Internet search engine to allow searches to submit geographically constricted searches. So, a typical local search includes not only the “what” a user is searching for, but [...]

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