Stephan Miller

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Got an email from Adwords today. It seems that they just opened a beta program where advertisers can bid on specific groups of people.

Demographic bidding is a way to help your ad reach audiences of a certain age or [...]

Search for something on Google and get this page:

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But who wants a computer than runs Linux, unless it’s a server. I tried dual booting Linux on a PC once. It went OK for a while and then I lost everything on my hard drive. And if you thought finding software to run on a Mac was hard. I [...]

The title’s a joke. My rank is falling. My rank is falling. If I hear that one more freaking time… Pagerank is nothing. Just a indicator. And I wonder if anyone out there placing so much important and spending so much time whining about Pagerank actually had any drop in traffic. The sites I deal [...]

I have done a few things in the past to make sites rank that would definitely qualify as being on the black hat side of things. I am done with that now. It’s too much work just to see all my work washed away by a search engine update. And I am not the type [...]

Moving this site to my dedicated server fixed the Google sitemap issue. We will have to see what that means in regard to traffic. Goodnight.

I hate updating Wordpress, especially minor updates. Sometimes I forget to reactivate some plugins. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have some plugins just sitting in the folder that I am not using or else I would get the "Activate All" plugin, but I know there is a few in there that I [...]

I actually looked through my Google web history this morning. I finally started logging into Google before searching a little while ago. Before I was paranoid that Google would recognize patterns in my searching and browsing that would indicate what I was trying to do online. Let’s just say I started out in this game [...]

I am not really sure what to do with this one, but I went to my Adwords reports menu and found this today:

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This is News Corp’s answer to YouTube. I am betting we should should start listening for air raid sirens.