I am one of the luckiest people I know.  I get to live my dream, working from home while I help people make their dreams come true, because of the Internet.  Proposed laws threaten our ability to make a living on the Internet, express ourselves on the Internet, do research on the Internet and touch [...]

I was doing some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) work for a client today when I noticed something alarming.  His Google PageRank had disappeared!  Yikes!  What in the world happened? It turns out that the folks at Google changed the location of some of the files that online tools use to figure out PageRank.  Whew!  We [...]

Isn’t it amazing  how much the Internet and computers are changing our lives?   Last week I read a news story that  that proved, once again, that we live in exciting times. Amanda Hocking turned to self-publishing when the traditional route of finding an agent and a publisher just didn’t work.  She began selling digital [...]

I’ve often written about the importance of renewing domain names.  Domain names are registered by the website owner and there’s an annual registration fee.  Once that fee runs out, then another party can register that name. The subject came up recently in the news. Brian McCrary was a disgruntled man.  He’s been caught speeding by [...]

Have you been watching the news from Haiti?  It’s heart breaking. If you have a WordPress blog  you can add links to aid organizations (via the text widget) to the sidebar of your blog.  I’ve added one to the right side of this page. To find the code to add, find your favorite charity site.  [...]

State governments across the country are looking for ways to increase state revenues.  North Carolina is one of the states considering taxing online revenue as a way to increase state coffers.  However their imminent legislation has had some unexpected results.   The Motley Fool states, Amazon is fighting back. It’s threatening to eliminate relationships with all [...]

There’s a website for everything and everyone, that includes people on the fence about who to vote for during the next presidential election.  If you have any doubts (or even just for fun) head on over to ABC’s Match-O-Matic II.  You’ll be presented with a series of quotes on various subjects but the quotes won’t [...]

Well, for some people it does.  There were reports last week that Bankaholic was purchased by Bankrate, Inc for $12.5 MILLION dollars.  There is said to be another $2.5 MILLION dollars available to the founder if the blog attains certain performance goals during the next year of operation. Wow!  Congratulations to John Wu the founder [...]

Earlier this year I wrote about the dispute between Olympic Cellars and the United States Olympic Committee. Basically someone wrote some bad legislation that gives the USOC almost exclusive rights to use the term “Olympic”. This is very troubling to businesses like Olympic Cellars that are physically located in the Olympic Peninsula. The USOC took [...]

If you’ve visited my blog before you know that my favorite website host is HostMySite.com. I adore them. They host 3 of my 5 websites. I recommend them to customers all the time. They have unbeatable technical support. Their prices are great. Their servers stay up. Let me say this again, I adore them. Last [...]