I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302′s.
Worse, WP won’t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page permalinks (URLs) useless.
In this short video I’ll show you exactly what not to do -( besides assume that WordPress will work the way it’s supposed to).
I was 45 minutes from leaving for the airport, moving stuff to my laptop, and tying up loose ends before traveling to Affiliate Convention. The last thing I needed was a computer problem.
Update 12/8 – I just got back, and it’s not fixed! Please see the bottom of this post where I’ll continue to add notes about resolution, or so see if I give up 
After a few improvements based on suggestions by users, my SEO app for the Iphone has been updated again, on March 10 2010 with both the original and free “lite”versions… Get them here!
What’s new? Just about everything that anyone asked for, including:
- Pinch zoom now works in the results
- Auto-Rotation when you rotate your iPhone
Doing a search the other day I was stunned to see a new interface from Google showing me tabbed results, with other relevant search phrases lined up across the top.
I had been using a brand new laptop, so I walked over to my main computer to get a screen shot, and I wasn’t able to re-create them. I went back to the laptop, did a search, and *poof* they were gone.
I’m attending Pubcon in Las Vegas this week, and there is a poker tournament taking place Thursday night that I want to attend. Interestingly, the organizer chose to tie attendance in with a charity, so I thought I’d tsake this opportunity to write a little bit about a local Portland organization called Snow-Cap.
This Thursday, I’ll be giving a lunchtime presentation for the East Portland Chamber of Commerce about Web 2.0 and “social sites” for people that are not internet marketers.
I’ll be joined by two other local networking experts, Charles Powell – Coaching at it’s Best, and Norm Rice – Portland Homes Online
This weekend, I took some video (of my son being blatantly facemasked with no penalty, and then gang tackled In flag football with a minor 5 yarder), and I wanted to share that video with some other parents. (Yes that’s the kind of guy I am
After noticing that I had received a bizarre amount of traffic for a Stuffed mushroom recipe that I posted a couple of years ago, I decided to hunt around and see what other SEO’s may have posted some food optimization tips.
Imagine my surprise when I found that so many SEO’s out there like to cook! Here, in no particular order, are quite a few…
There seems to be a new scam going around, that’s a new twist on an old game.
The old scams set out to steal your domain names under the banner of Liberty names of America“ or “Domain Registry of America“ and the way they do it is to send domain owners what appears to be an invoice for domain registration renewal.
Simply put, a Link Wheel is a group of pages on different hosts, that are about a specific product, subject or service, which all link to each other, and also link to a particular URL, or “money site”.
Some call them “link wheels”, some call them “authority hubs”, and some, I’m sure, use names I haven’t even heard of.
Are you tired of trading your time for money? Are you worried you’re going to run out of time? Well I am, but no, I’m not selling Amway any time soon. 
I had a ski shop in the 80′s, and in the 90′s I was a retail manager with GI Joes, Ross Dress for Less and Office Depot.
I ran my own computer store from 1997 to 2002, and handled hundreds, if not thousands of customer service issues, and each one required using good judgement and some common sense.
