But this website has some pretty cool and very fancy chicken houses that you can buy for your very own farm animals. My favorite is the small arc house. What’s yours?

I’ve been trying to use Wordpress for absolutely all my content creation — from blogs, whole websites, to sales pages. But that’s the one I’ve been having a problem with.

Not any more. Check out the link above and you will get an idea of how Wordpress truly is the most powerful marketing tool for web site building ALIVE!

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This Web Hosting Provider I came across, HostNexus, seemed of particular interest! They have an awesome looking website, been around a while, and have some really good options.

One problem with my current provider is their lack of options – only one choice of hosting plans. Not these guys. They have everything from cheap hosting, to reseller hosting, to more dedicated VPS hosting. They even have special Wordpress blog hosting! And you all know how much I love wordpress blogs!

So give these guys a look, it’ll be worth it for sure!

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He asked me first of all about the footer links, so let’s look at those first. The question was about the links in the footer and how they are linked to php pages. The links look something like this: http://www.dougwead.com/index.php?page=videos

This isn’t really a problem, as those are actually static pages. Google will recognize the link, crawl and index it. These type links are typically used when you have a lot of pages that need the same or similar content, and you can pass keywords or commands through the ?page=XYZ command. I’ve done this on several sites myself. The problem comes in when the commands being passed aren’t needed (excessively compliated coding) or when the commands being used aren’t keyword relevant. At least make them keyword relevant, or don’t use them! So the verdit is in this case, the links at the top still link to regular .htm pages so just use those, don’t overcomplicate the site!

I noticed another BIG problem. None of the pictures on the site (and the site uses a lot of pictures) use the alt=”some text” functionality in the images. This is basic web design 101, and these guys missed it. Basically what this means is, when Google goes to crawl the page, and it sees a bunch of images, it can’t see what’s on the image. It just sees an image as “<img src=”img.jpg”> and that’s it. What’s the image about? that’s what the “alt” tag is for, it tells the search engine what that image is for.

So if you have a bunch of images without alt tags, it looks like a blank sheet of paper to Google. What good does that do you (especially if you use  alot of images)? None what so ever, it really hurts you.

Which brings me to my next point, the fact that the menu bar is all images and javascript rollover. Which 4 or 5 years ago was great! And it does look great. But now the same thing can be achieved in CSS. The advantage? Cleaner code, more cross-browser compatibility, and way better search engine ability to crawl the code and follow links. So if you find yourself using your main menu links as rollover javascript images (especially without alt tags), STOP! Just use CSS my friend, it’s really not that hard. And hey, everybody’s doing it

Those were the main flaws I saw with the site, overall it’s a nice site; anyone else have any suggestions? Write them in the comments and let’s see how it could be better improved!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Friday, Feb 13th 2009
With both President Obama and Congress urging the auto industry to go green, and $1,300 in available tax credits for the purchase of a green vehicle, consumer interest is at an all time high. But which car to buy? A team from Seattle will drive both the leading hybrid car and one of the new clean burning diesel cars 9,000 miles across the country to settle the score as part of the Portland to Portland Green Test Drive.

“It’s not just about finding out which car gets better fuel economy” says Ed Steenman, founder of Green Human and co-sponsor of the green P2P event “but which one is the better all around car to drive.” His team of green humans will put both cars to the test in all kinds of conditions, from the bitter cold of the Northeast winter, to the desert heat in the Southwest.
They’ll stop in places all over the country to talk about eco friendly cars, while interacting with local communities both in person and online with video, blogs, social networking. “We’ve got a team of cameras in the cars and we’ll be uploading and interacting with anyone and everyone who wants to be a part of this as we go” says John Polnik, the lead driver and co-producer of the mobile event. “I think this could be the first 9,000 mile test drive in history, and everyone’s invited along”.
Green Human has always had an interest in automotive technology, and with all the new developments in bio-fuels, electric, hybrid and clean diesel, “we couldn’t resist the opportunity to participate first hand in this unique event”. No matter which car comes out on top, in the end both will be put through the green ringer.
The clean burning VW Jetta TDI and Toyota Prius are scheduled to leave Portland, Maine on Tuesday February 17th and arrive in Portland, Oregon around March 5th. Monitor their progress and participate online at www.greenP2P.com, or just search greenP2P on any search engine.

Media: contact John Polnik 206.931.7639 or Ed Steenman at 425.445.3339 direct

TubeMogul did a study of real viewership on videos. The basis was, that YouTube counts a view as anyone who visits your video’s page, regardless of how much of the video they actually watch. This means they could not even be on the page long enough for the video to load up, and it still counts as a view. So how many real views do you get? Where do most viewers fall off?

TubeMogul recently acquired Illuminex, which allows them to have a YouTube Analytics -esque data analyzation of videos. All except for YouTube that is; however, many of the videos on the sites that were studied (they can’t tell us which ones were studied though) are also played on YouTube.

So what did the data tell them? Here’s the basics, and I’ll quote:

Most videos steadily lose viewers once “play” is clicked, with an average 10.39% of viewers clicking away after ten seconds and 53.56% leaving after one minute.

This brings up valuable knowledge and strategy, such as this:

On YouTube, where most overlay ads appear at about 10 seconds in, 10.39% of a video’s initial viewers are not likely seeing the ad.

Great information from a company that I use very often! They even sent me a free T-shirt!

Glorify Thy name
Originally written by Donna Adkins (1976)

Capo 1

Verse 1:
C         F         G              C
Father we love You, we worship and adore You
            F               G
Glorify Thy Name in all the earth

Chorus:
C           F     E           Am
Glorify Thy Name, Glorify Thy Name,
F           G               C
Glorify Thy Name in all the earth

Other Verses:
Jesus we love You...

Spriit we love You...

Silly girl can walk she just doesn’t want to, and here’s proof!