Good-Bye My Friend: A Tribute To Tim Russert
April 11, 2011
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Good-Bye My Friend: A Tribute To Tim Russert
This was originally posted in 2008.
I was inspired to re-post this after watching Tim’s son Luke doing political news reporting the other day just like his dad.
I have tried to write this post several times previously, but have been overwhelmed by grief and stopped. My sadness has been very real and very deep. You would have thought that I was a close personal friend or family member. The truth is that I never meet the man in person. Yet, he was a hero to me, a well respected and loved individual and family man.
Tim Russert had become part of my Sunday ritual and on days when I was so caught up in running this SEO service that I would miss the show, I would go to bed saddened that I missed my friend today.
You see, I grew up watching Meet The Press with my ‘Big Russ’ a term Tim used to describe his Dad, back in rural Pennsylvania. I would sit quietly listening to my Dad explain what they were talking about on TV. My Dad, and Meet The Press taught me much about government, politics, and life beyond our little town.
This interest in how government works impacts me to this day. I enjoyed watching Tim question politician trying to get at the truth. Never rude, superior, or arrogant he loved his job and it showed. At the end of every tough session, Tim always showed his softer human side. He would cheer on the Buffalo Bills or the Boston College Eagles where his son Luke attended.
I loved watching him cover this current election cycle. He could often be heard to say “Isn’t this great.” He loved what he was doing and it showed. I especially enjoy people who love what they do.
I found that Tim and I had some things in common. We both love what we do and it shows. We are both Irish and love politics. What I had not realized how much he had become I part of my life. The last and only public figure to die that brought sadness into my life was President Kennedy, another Irishman.
I just watched a final tribute to Tim on TV and again was reduced to tears. I was amazed by how well his son Luke handled his tribute. My Sundays, and the Sundays of many others will not be the same without Tim.
The sad irony here is that Tim though this election was the greatest ever, he will not see its conclusion from this vantage point on Earth. Some would say that this does not seem fair, and I would have to agree. However, I also know that life has only one guarantee and that is death.
It is at times like this that SEO, search rankings, and the Internet, the things of my life are somehow insignificant. They have moved from the fast lanes of my life to standing still along a dusty back road.
Thank you Tim, Thank you Dad, Thank You Life.
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Do Follow Comment – Keyword Luv – Scratch My Back Marketing
September 27, 2009
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Finally, after several long drawn out months we have completed the upgrade to this blog. We have added all of the following plugins Do Follow, Comment and Keyword Luv. We have added all of these plugins to make our blog a friendly place to comment.
It is part of what we have been calling Scratch My Back Marketing.” The idea here is that you scratch our backs with use comments of at least 150 characters in length. We then scratch your back with useful Do Follow Anchor Text links. If you are a blog owner with an RSS feed enabled you will get an extra link.
We now are using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. It is an anti spam plugin. It has been developed to halt what is commonly known as drive by comments such as “nice post” or “thanks for the link.” I have been wanting this plugin for about six month and now. It is here for Beta testing. It will soon be available on WordPress.
Whose back are you scratching?
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment. We then will provide you with an anchor text Do Follow Link. It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
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Testomonials For Tucson SEO Solutions
July 14, 2009
At Tucson SEO we always like to say that We Talk The Talk and We Walk The Walk, in other words we do what we say that we do. This can been evidenced by our posted Google Search Results.
We are very proud of what we have accomplished. With success in mind, we thought that it was time for you to hear from some of our clients. This Video is from Johnny Wyatt of JJ & J Perpetual Marketing of Tucson, Arizona.
This testimonial is from Tyler of BioSolutions of Arizona.
I am very new to the whole SEO world, specifically link building. I have gone back and read many of the previous posts and learned an amazing amount. I also got a chance to check out your posted results from your Google searches, very impressive. Its nice to see, because that is where I desire my company to be in our industry…In a short amount of time you have really helped our company out and proven your SEO abilities. Thanks!
Sometimes, is best to let the clients to the talking for us.
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv.
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business solutions and venture further.
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A FireFox Feature Gets My Attention
July 14, 2009
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A FireFox Feature Gets My Attention
I have written lately about being careful who you link too. Especially in the comments section of your blog. Generally, when a link appears in the context of a post these are generally considered safe. The writer has established some kind of relationship or experience with the site that they are pointing out in their post. While it is possible that any site can be infected with malware these are usually safe to visit. However, the older the post is the less safe any link will be.
A commenter on this blog rightfully pointed out that we need to be extremely careful. He noted that the site that we were linking to could have been sold. It could now be any number of things that we would not desire to be linked to. I see this everyday when I’m doing research or simply link building. Roughly 15% of the sites that I visit in any day are no longer what they once were.
It becomes a whole different ballgame when we are considering user generated content such as blog comments. In most cases the person leaving the comment is linking to their own site. It is possible that their site could have been exploited without them being aware of it through some java script, plugin, or through other avenues. This is one of the reasons that I visit sites that are being linked to in my blog to verify that they are worthy of my links. I would rather find the problem than have you end up with a nasty surprise.
Even being diligent can never assure safety on the internet. A site could be compromised long after a comment is left. This can not be controlled, so I check all sites for your safety and ours. I have very good anti virus software that presents us from acquiring most malware when visiting other sites. But that happened way to late for us.
Today, I discovered that we have another layer of protection that I was unaware of through the use of FireFox 3.5. Although it has lots of problems opening this new version it has extra protection feature in place. I discovered this by accident today. Someone left a rather unusual post comment that said this person wanted to hire us. This is not the kind of statement that would be most potential clients would make on the blog. Those wanting to discuss services usually go to the contact page. So I was suspicious.
I was skeptical of the comment. You can get jaded very quickly as a blog owner. Since the comment needed a follow up I naturally followed the link to the site. FireFox denied access to this site and delivered up a bright red warning box. It read Reported Attack Site and it had additional information. I was both surprised and relieved. What I thought was a bogus request was merely a ploy to direct me to a site that could have caused some serious problems. Now, I am fairly confident that our anti virus program would have protected us but you never know.
Then strangely I find an email alert in my inbox that discussed this FireFox feature that I was unaware of. One thing is certain I am on high alert these days. The site was hacked last month and I have been writing about spam and spammers lately. They don’t much like it when you call out their negative behavior. So in this sense we have a target on our site. We have adopted somewhat strident security measures on the site recently but again you never know.
These people who do this don’t care that its your business and livelihood that they are messing with. It’s all a big joke to them. Now, having said all of that I will attempt to continue to be a positive influence on our industry. I will continue to develop our ethical link building programs and write for the small business owner.
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What the Bing Is Going On Here?
July 5, 2009
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What the Bing Is Going On Here?
As most of you already know Microsoft was launched it new search engine called Bing. Oops! Make that decision engine. The question for me is how will this affect my site and business. Will enough people searching for our targeted keywords make a difference to me? Bing can gain all the market share it wants but if it doesn’t directly affect our site then I really don’t care. Everything else is just interesting stuff.
The site as always ranked better with MSN than it did with Google or Yahoo, but so few people used it for our keyword it didn’t make a difference. Below I have outlined four keyword phrases that we target to make my point. This information is part of a weekly.
I am experiencing trouble with my tables today. So I will explain rather than just show you are chart of the results.
I checked 4 different keyword phrases
Local SEO
Arizona SEO
Phoenix SEO
Tucson SEO
Our site ranks better with Bing than it does with the other two majors in 3 out of these four searches. The other keyword phrase, Tucson SEO, the site ranks # ! across all the major search engines. While this is nice the question remains, what does this mean for website traffic. We had almost no traffic from Microsoft so any improvement will be statistically significant.
Last month the site had 15 visitors a month from MSN Live that has jumped to 60 over the last 30 days. That is a nice jump and it is traffic that we may not have acquired any other way. It will take some time to discover if that was just the SEO crowd checking things in Bing or not. If those numbers reflect real potential clients then Bing might begin to affect our bottom line.
Personally, I like Bing. It has some new features that will likely be added by the other majors.
Bing might actually be able to grab some market share in the search wars. I sure hope so since they have put 100 Million dollars into the advertising budget to promote its launch.
How is your site or blog doing? We’d like to hear from you.
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv.
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business solutions and venture further.
Too learn more about our services please check out these links:
Local Search Engine Optimization Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO
Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson
Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions
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