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How I Handle Backups and Disaster Recovery

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After reading about Lisa Barone’s laptop being stolen, I got into a bit of a discussion about how I use cloud computing for part of my backup and disaster recovery plan. Since a few people started asking details I think this post might be useful.

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After Taking 3500 Point Olympic Dive, Web Says: “Follow My Lead!”

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The economy is in a rut because of Big Risk – beyond just the subprime housing market.
First, it was Big Finance – AIG and company. Second it was Big Media – the NYTimes and friends. Third, it was Big Auto – GM and gang. It’s quite plausible that the next victims will be Big Advertising [...]

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Does Ferrari Need SEO and PPC Help

October 20, 2008

So if you happen to do a search on the word [Ferrari] you’re greeted with this SERP.

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Does Your Website Have a Squeezy Top

May 28, 2008

Does Your website have a squeezy top? Is it designed and laid out with the ruthless goal of facilitating conversions, or is it series of compromises that barely accomplishes it’s true goal.

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Why Offline Stores are Doomed and Letting Consumers Consume

October 30, 2007

Full admission I’m a pretty difficult person to buy a gift for, my tastes are somewhat bizarre eclectic and seemingly random to almost everyone. So when it comes time for relatives to buy me a gift I get a lot of gift cards. For my birthday earlier this summer I got a $50 gift [...]

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Graywolf’s SEO Blog Sponsor – AvivaDirectory.com

January 30, 2007

I’d like to announce a new sponsor here on my blog AvivaDirectory.com.

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GoogleDashboard.com the Truth Behind the Speculation

October 31, 2006

Part of the fun and danger of the blogosphere and things moving at the speed of the internet, is quite often things get misinterpreted. Many times I intentionally leave questions unanswered, hoping to generate a little buzz with speculation to fill in th gaps. In this case however I’m goingto do the opposite, I’m actually [...]

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Suggestions for Ask.com

August 29, 2006

After reading some comments from SES in San Jose it looked like Ask.com was looking for suggestions on ways to improve. I was working with Rand of SEOMoz.com trying to get other SEO bloggers to participate. While we didn’t get the level of participation I hoped for it still seemed worth while enough to go [...]

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SES San Jose

July 20, 2006

I’ve had to cancel my trip to SES San Jose. Nothing bad, I just have some business development stuff going on locally that is time sensitive and if I let the momentum break will fall apart.

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Profits Murdered By Google Adwords

July 19, 2006

There’s been quite a bit of noise in the SEM space about some of the recent changes made by the Google Adwords Quality Score. I thought it might be interesting to take a more in depth look at some of my site statistics.

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Flickr and Travel Agents

June 24, 2006

I’ve got a friend who happens to be a travel agent. She’s looking for ways to grow her business. I suggested she start a blog and a photo journal. She travels fairly frequently and takes lots of pictures, so I suggested every time she travels she write up a little review and post some photos [...]

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So Want to be an SEO via SEO Rockstars

April 24, 2006

If you’ve ever wondered about what you should think about when you’re ready to start taking on some SEO clients and diversify outside of the affiliate playgrounds then your should check out so you want to be an SEO podcast (that’s an mp3 file for some of you), oilman and webguerilla do a kick ass [...]

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Alexa Get Yer’ Game On

February 14, 2006

In certain circles and under certain circumstances having a good low Alexa rank is a very good thing, in fact it can even line your coffers quite nicely. Now there are some people who sell tools that are supposed to lower your Alexa rank, and I’m not going to comment on whether they work or [...]

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Getting Things Done an SEO’s Tale

February 9, 2006

Ok This is not technically an SEO type post, but since it did help me get my act together and get more work done I think it qualifies for going on this blog. I’ve always had a pretty decent memory and have been able to recall obscure little details without fail. I rarely forgot things [...]

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E-Commerce It’s Not Just for Rich Broads

January 18, 2006

I came across a report today in InternetRetailer.com

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Marketing Lessons from Dr. Seuss

January 18, 2006

If you have kids, nieces, nephews, or were ever a kid yourself chances are you’ve heard of Dr. Seuss. For most of us Dr. Seuss stories are nothing more than funny characters who help children read, learn the alphabet or teach life values. However some of his stories directly relate to business and marketing [...]

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Moniker, 1and1, and GoDaddy

January 3, 2006

So I’ve been reading lots of the GoDaddy Horror Stories lately, and decided to start moving my domains to another registrar. All the big dogs seem to recommend Moniker.com. I listen to Monte’s show on Webmaster Radio and met him at the last [...]

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World Wide Web Now Serving Over 1 Billion Users

December 19, 2005

According to Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen the internet now has over One Billion Users

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Squidoo Customer Service, Part II

December 11, 2005

So I mentioned in my Squidoo Customer Service post on Friday that I was having problems getting my account to work. I filled out a feedback and made my blog post about the incident. To be perfectly honest I would have been quite happy with tech support doing whatever behind the scenes voodoo was necessary [...]

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Netperitive: Measuring the Influence of Bloggers on Corporate Reputation

December 10, 2005

There is a white paper from Netperitive that’s making the rounds. The paper is titled Measuring the Influence of Bloggers on Corporate Reputation (pdf). The paper focuses on Jeff Jarvis’s bad experience with a Dell Laptop, or the Dell Hell incident.

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