January 2011

How Important Are Keyword Domains?

January 31, 2011

Over the past couple of years I’ve become obsessed with keyword domains. Not only does Google seem to give them much more weight over other URLs competing for the same keyword, but it’s also a great way to build a brand. Matt Cutts said himself that “Generic domains that users are likely to remember, will [...]

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Prophets of Doom

January 30, 2011

So, I was watching this show on the History Channel last night called Prophets of Doom. It wasn’t your typical uplifting show as these guys were basically talking about why there is going to be a collapse in the USA and around the world really. Some of what they had to say made a lot [...]

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Two SEO Tools I Cannot Live Without

January 28, 2011

Over the past seven years I have basically been a part-time SEOer. SEO has always been a passion of mine, but running a company has always gotten in the way. There was a time when I used to spend at least a third of my day doing SEO. However, as our company continued to grow, [...]

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Benefits Of Lemon Water

January 27, 2011

Since I’m out in California for a couple of months I have access to the dozen or so citrus trees in our backyard. We have a variety of several different types of oranges, tangerines, and lemons. I love oranges and especially tangerines, but one can only do so much with lemons. I felt like the [...]

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Restaurant Week San Diego Winter 2011

January 23, 2011

For those of you who don’t live in San Diego, they have this great promotion here twice a year called Restaurant Week San Diego. I was here last year during one of the weeks, but I can’t remember which one. Basically, the promotion is at over 150 restaurants in San Diego County where you can [...]

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How important are Google’s rankings?

January 19, 2011

How important are Google rankings? When I purchased wordpressthemes.com back in October, it was ranking towards the top of page 4 for my main keyword “wordpress themes” in Google. Since then, I’ve been doing a lot of on page optimization and adding lots of content. I’ve been able to work my way up towards the [...]

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Blogging Success Summit 2011

January 15, 2011

I was sad to miss Affiliate Summit West 2011 in Las Vegas last week. Not only is Affiliate Summit the best affiliate convention of the year, it was also at one of my favorite hotels in the world – the Wynn Las Vegas. Since I’m branching out into things outside of poker I think it’s [...]

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Pacific Coast Highway RV Trip This Spring

January 14, 2011

I’ve alluded to this before, but we plan to take our recently acquired RV to Alaska this summer. The first leg of our trip will be the Pacific Coast Highway heading north out of San Diego. We will be on the Pacific Coast Highway all the way from San Clemente, CA to its terminus in [...]

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Vista CA Hike With Views For Miles

January 13, 2011

Since I don’t actually belong to a gym in Vista, I affectionately refer to the hike behind my house as my new gym. I posted about the hike before, but this time I was armed with a better camera and Nike+ so I could track the distance. According to my Nike+ it’s about 1 to [...]

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J.R. Organics CSA – Week 1 Report

January 12, 2011

Today was the first delivery from our new CSA provided by JR organics, a local San Diego County farm. JR Organics offers over 30 pickup locations in the San Diego and Los Angeles area. We opted for the San Marcos Cal State pickup. Little did we know, there is also a farmers market at this [...]

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