Stephan Miller

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I just recently built a e-Commerce site. Only about 20% of the products are up but we decided to launch it. Everything else was set up. It was time to start making sales. The domain had no links pointing [...]

This was going to be a post about how I got away from blogging for the weekend to get back to writing. And that part’s true. I started writing it yesterday and that part’s true. And then I was going to explain that I was going to try to continue the practice of writing in [...]

Yesterday, I ran into a post over at The NetFool than ran down a few Black Hat SEO Techniques. Black Hat techniques always get me thinking. Using the term "Black Hat", automatically assumes the existence of White, Gray and theoretically "No Hat" techniques.
No Hat SEO
Techniques listed under this category are about the only ones that [...]

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 gender. If you want your ads to be seen by women aged 18-24, or people over [...]

Search for something on Google and get this page:

We’re Sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your [...]

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

Then the Safari site wouldn’t have all the results on the first page of any search involving a tech question. It seems Safari does the tricky thing of allowing spiders to index the books on its site, but when you go there to find the information, you have to sign up for $40 a month [...]

Google Gears (BETA)
Google reader just freaked out a few minutes ago and when I came back, I found out that I can now get all of my news stories while I’m offline. This is all because of Google Gears.
Google Gears allows you to run your web apps offline and its open source. That means that [...]

Google Voice Local Search
Seems that google has started its own version of 411, free of charge, of course, getting listed has to cost something. Will have to try it out.