Back in the day, say, around 2005, all someone had to do was pop up a website and it would pretty much market itself. The search engines were extremely forgiving back then and there wasn’t a lot of competition. These days though, a site has got to show it’s actually worth something to show up […]
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What Makes a Popular Personal Blog?
I’ve been blogging for a long time. Longer than most people on the planet have, as a matter of fact. I first began writing things down on the internet back in 2005 when Laura and I bought our first house together. Those were fun days and I was doing tons of improvements, many of which […]
Is an MBA Worth It?
MBA has such a ring to it, doesn’t it? “I’ve got an MBA, so watch out!” “Oh look, there are some more MBAs. They think they’re so cool.” The funny thing is, I actually do have an MBA. I earned it from the Binghamton University in 1999. It was a one year program and I […]
Contrast: The Effects of Light on a Scene
Have you ever taken a photo that didn’t turn out quite right? You thought it would be fine, but when you reviewed it later on your computer, things were just off. You couldn’t put your finger on exactly what went wrong, but something definitely went awry. Oftentimes, when taking photographs under certain lighting conditions, unexpected […]
Pagerank Sculpting & Evaporation
If you’re a long time SEO, you remember all the hubbub about pagerank sculpting back in (around) 2010. I can’t remember the exact date, but it was a while ago. I remember when Google (and others) came out with the nofollow attribute and then shortly thereafter SEOs all over the place began using it on […]
XenForo: How to Remove RSS Feeds
XenForo creates RSS feed files (index.rss) for a few different types of pages. Off the top of my head, I think there’s a primary top level feed and then there are separate feeds for the forum pages. If you’ve got a limited number of forum pages, you might not want to concern yourself with removing […]
XenForo: How to Remove Member & Attachment Links
What I’m going to explain today is hopefully going to spare you a lot of heartache in the future. I’d like to discuss a very important SEO aspect of XenForo forums that a lot of site owners completely overlook. It has to do with the member and attachment links that are all over many forum […]
Camera Sensor Size for Photo & Video
There are quite a few different camera sensor size options available today. This is both a good and a bad thing. The good thing is that along with the wide range of sensor sizes comes cameras for almost any budget. The bad thing is, hardly anyone knows what differences in sensor size means. Seriously. Have […]
How to Revive an Old Blog
This is something I see far too often: I have a blog that’s been alive since around 2005. It’s got about 2,500 posts in it and it’s been dying a slow death for years. I don’t know what’s wrong. In the beginning, the blog was ranking very well for all sorts of keywords. I was […]
How to Manually Select Focus Point with Canon Rebel DSLR Camera
Trying to get a camera to focus on the correct object in a photo has always been a challenge for many people. This is especially true as they move from the very beginning stages of photography to the more amateur stages. In the beginning, many folks simply point and shoot from a distance. As they […]