Archive for February, 2009

That was it?!?

That was the Daytona 500, the so-called Great American Race?

NASCAR should be embarrassed from what happened today from the national anthem to Dale Earnhardt Junior’s poor attitude to calling the race when there was a light rain and only 48 laps to go.

That was just poor.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Dan - February 15, 2009 at 7:48 pm

Categories: racing, sports   Tags: NASCAR

Daytona 500

Word has it that there’s a certain 500 mile race taking place in Daytona, Florida today.

That is, if the fine people at NASCAR will ever get going and finish this horrible pre-race show.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Dan - at 3:23 pm

Categories: racing, sports   Tags: NASCAR

The dangers of ice

Last night’s crash of flight 3407 from Newark, NJ to Buffalo, NY, killing the flight crew, all of the passengers, and a victim on the ground, shows that in addition to being dangerous to ground traffic, ice can be extremely dangerous to today’s aircraft.

By the time that the flight crew realized that there was significant ice buildup on the aircraft during final approach to the Buffalo airport, it was too late.

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Dan - February 13, 2009 at 7:58 pm

Categories: aviation   Tags: aircraft, airplane, ,

Mid-week update

After applying new SEO techniques and adding two new pages, I’ve already seen a slight increase in natural website traffic at my Intruder Prevention website (– UPDATE – I no longer own or maintain www.IntruderPrevention.com).  I don’t do any paid advertising for any of my websites (at least for now), so all of my traffic is from people doing regular searches at the popular search websites and through word of mouth.  And for IP, that natural traffic is on the rise.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Dan - February 5, 2009 at 4:36 pm

Categories: energy, marketing, websites   Tags: affiliate marketing, PPC, ,

The conversion of Intruder Prevention is complete.

The other day I picked up an excellent (and more importantly, updated) book on search engine optimization (SEO) that gave great examples of how to maximize the usage of key words and phrases without overdoing it, how to write better META descriptions and key words, and how to write more persuasive articles to lead to better conversion rate optimization (CRO).

Needless to say, once I went through the first two chapters and saw the example website that was successfully converted from a nothing website into one of the top websites in its category, I was inspired.  I went straight to my Intruder Prevention website and spent the next two days working hard on the new SEO techniques.

– UPDATE – I no longer own or maintain www.IntruderPrevention.com

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Dan - February 2, 2009 at 12:49 am

Categories: computers, websites   Tags: , affiliate marketing, CRO, ,