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Bing’s Duane Forrester reminded marketers that “all SEO ranking signals revolve around content of some kind” at SMX Advanced 2011. High-quality, search-friendly content allows businesses to populate their sites with keywords and valuable information for visitors (and both are important to search success). Brafton’s infographic, Why Content For SEO, explores how content is key to search engine visibility. You can click the image to see … [Read more...]
Postmodernism describes movements which both arise from, and react against or reject, trends in modernism. Specific trends of modernism that are generally cited are formal purity, medium specificity, art for art's sake, authenticity, universality, originality and revolutionary or reactionary tendency, i.e. the avant-garde. However, paradox is probably the most important modernist idea against which postmodernism reacts. Paradox was … [Read more...]
So I've got a brief rant regarding the current state of websites in the Action Sports Industry. Particularly with many of the brand websites. It's just a quick one but after reviewing some URLs yesterday, I was in complete disbelief of the crap these companies are allowing to be published on the internet from both a content, design and functionality standpoint. SO... What the heck is up with the Action Sports Industry brand websites these days? … [Read more...]
Pismo Beach, CA will host the 2011 Billabong STILL FROTHY SURF FESTIVAL on October 1st and 2nd at Pismo Pier just south of San Luis Obispo. email stillfrothy@sbcglobal.net for contest entry forms and more info. … [Read more...]
ROTARY OF SAN CLEMENTE CELEBRATION OF SURF MUSIC AND ART FESTIVAL OVERVIEW WHO: 10,000 fans of surfing and the surf industry WHAT: A Music and Art festival on the lawn WHEN: 4 to 10 pm (gates open at 4:30p), Saturday, Sept 17, the day before the opening of the Hurley Pro Trestles contest at Lower Trestles Why: Support charities of the Rotary Club of San Clemente, celebrate the surf community WHEN: Steed Park, San Clemente, 3 miles from the … [Read more...]
A landing page is a place you send traffic when you really want some action. And no, this has nothing to do with Craig’s List personals or Match.com. It can be a sales page, an email opt-in page, a video landing page, or even a content landing page designed to rank well in search engines or to engage your audience in a stronger, more influencial way. In short, there are a lot of ways to screw these up and pretty much go backwards. Here are … [Read more...]
LRG, Lifted Research Group, started in 1999 with some start-up capital and a dream. Fast forward to the present. The small company founded by Jonas Bevacqua and Robert Wright is now a fixture in the fashion and urban scene. Annual sales in 2006 were projected to be more than $150 million. This post is from ChannelAPA.com … [Read more...]
WordPress is one of the best pieces of website CMS (Content Mangement System) software on the open source market. It's rise in popularity and use in creating and managing larger scale websites has also made it a dangerous piece of software to have on your server. A skilled hacker can pretty much own your website if able to access your WordPress administrator account. Believe me, I know … [Read more...]
California's electric utility companies are required to using renewable energy to produce 20 percent of their power by 2010 and 33 percent by 2020. A main source of renewable power will be solar energy. Many large solar energy projects are being proposed in California's desert area on federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land. BLM has received right-of-way requests encompassing more than 300,000 acres for the development of approximately … [Read more...]
Habitat for Humanity is one of those organizations that doesn't make a lot of noise, but does a lot of good. Focusing on the construction of homes for the poor, Habitat for Humanity uses volunteer labor and (usually) simple designs. The homes built by Habitat are decent but utilitarian, tending to be typical wood-frame structures, meeting but rarely exceeding code guidelines. They're hardly places in which one would expect to find abundant … [Read more...]
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