The website that is dominating Product SEO is currently Amazon with it's tremendous database of products, it's loyal users, and its great trust with Google. I will explore the ways that Amazon got to the top, to give you a better idea on how to beat out Amazon, or at least come a close second.

Amazon Affiliate Program

The Amazon Affiliate Program gives web publishers a change to gain a commission every time the publisher sends traffic to amazon. A publisher can write a review about a book, and then give a link to that book, and if a visitors visits the Amazon Affiliate link and purchases a product, the web publisher will get a 4% commission on ALL items purchased, not just the product referred. For Amazon, they generate traffic to their site, and convert that traffic into purchases. But what it also does is generates a backlinks to the Amazon product page. The page with the backlink usually has descriptive text about the book, and the anchor text of the link is generally the title of the book. This ranks has heavy link juice for Amazon. Since Amazon has millions of targeted links pointing to a specific product page, that page usually shows up very high in search results, good for amazon, bad for you.

Quality Content

The best way to rank higher in search results is to do SEO. It might be hard to beat out Amazon for the number 1 spot on Google, but coming in a close second doesn't hurt. Considering the run down, taken from Worth To Rank in Google
Ranking Number 1 receives 42.1 percent of click through.
Ranking Number 2 receives 11.9 percent of click through.
Ranking Number 3 receives 8.5 percent of click through.
The next step is getting high quality backlinks to your site. There are many ways to create link-bait, but the best possibly way is to create solid content that other bloggers or web publishers think is worthy enough to link to. This can come in the form of product reviews, descriptions, photos, taking videos of the product and showing it in use. Amazon offers the option for it's users to review products on their site.

Google Product Base

One way to beat out Amazon is to embrace the Google Product Base. When a specific product is searched for in Google, and the product is found in it's base, supplementary results usually show up in Google's Search Results at the number one spot. Example, [Nord Electro 2]. The product is also displayed with the price, and what site the product is hosted on. Of course, you will need to be selling the product to take advantage of this, but it is a simple way to get ahead of Amazon.

Amazon Reviews

Amazon allows users to write product reviews and give their opinions. This helps amazon immensely. It creates unique user generated content for them that is always getting refreshed my users adding in new reviews, Google loves this. It also increases the relevancy of the page, many times people love reading reviews on a product and getting opinions before they dive into buying a product. This is where you come in, let users write reviews on your site to begin with to start generating comments, but also create your own reviews on Amazon with a link pointing back to your site's product page. This will give your site some link juice, and show people looking at the product page that you know what your talking about, in case they visit your site in the future.

Amazon URL's and Title

Take a look at Amazon Titles and their url for a specific product page. It has the name of the product in both the title, and the url, as well as the product's name embedded within the content of the page numerous times. This helps google trigger what the page is about and meant to rank for. It is a basic SEO tip that Amazon uses to it's advantage, and so should you.

I searched through the web to try and find something that could help me out but couldn't find anything, so decided to write this post in hopes to help other that have the same problem, and since AJAX is turning into the norm on alot of websites lately, this could save people alot of time.

So, the solution.. It's pretty easy actually...
In the form tag, just enter

onsubmit="return false;"

This way, when the form is trying to submit and refresh, the form returns false and doesn't.

Now that gets you through stage one. Now you have to check weather a key that is pressed is the enter key, and if it is the enter key, you need to trigger the AJAX function to work. Here is the enter key form...

function enter_pressed(e){
var keycode;
if (window.event) keycode = window.event.keyCode;
else if (e) keycode = e.which;
else return false;
return (keycode == 13);
}

This checks every keypress that is done on a text input, and checks if enter is pressed. Ok, so now that we know if enter is pressed, we need to trigger the AJAX funciton, here we go...

onKeyPress="if(enter_pressed(event)){ search_results('amazon') }"

So we check all key presses, and if our enter_pressed returns true, we trigger the search AJAX function which is search_results. Pretty neat eh?

1. Make fewer HTTP requests
2. Use a CDN
3. Add an Expires header
4. Gzip components
5. Put CSS at the top
6. Move scripts to the bottom
7. Avoid CSS expressions
8. Make JS and CSS external
9. Reduce DNS lookups
10. Minify JS
11. Avoid redirects
12. Remove duplicate scripts
13. Configure ETags

Alright, so what performance grade does Yslow give most trafficked sites? Lets take a look at Alexa's top ten most visited sites and see how they hold up to YSlow's performance check.

Some pretty cool results, what is really surprising is MSN getting a 42 or an equivalent of an F. But what is not surprising is Google clocking in a 99, don't you always hate the kid in class who gets a 100% on everything? Not saying that I hate google, maybe just a bit jealous. Some other low rankers were myspace, no surprise, and wikipedia. Very cool tool by YSlow, I already started to optimize this site, and have configured my site to my get a grade of 88 on some pages, which used to be around 54.

Here is my conversation with the GoDaddy support team, which took about 2 hours to respond, so if you find this post by Google, hopefully it saved you some time instead of having to talk to the Godaddy Support team.

Customer Inquiry

I need to upgrade my memory for the VPS machine. Please inform me on the necessary steps I need to take to get this done.

Thanks,

Tom
TMWilson1@wisc.edu

Dear Tom,

Thank you for contacting Online Support. Unfortunately, you cannot upgrade the memory on your existing virtual dedicated server. You will have to purchase a new virtual dedicated server with RAM accelerator, and cancel the existing server after you have a backup.

Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.

Sincerely,
Server Support

What does the crowd say about that? BOOOOO

Dear Tom,

Thank you for contacting Godaddy VPS Server Support. After further review of your issue we have determined that there is now a known issue with the physical network between our servers and different parts of the world. Unfortunately this is not an issue we have an ETA for, given that is is off of our networks and out of our hands. This could very well be accounting for all of your current problems accessing your website.

So I guess the internet is going down, just like CNN predicted. But wait, I asked them another question about a nameserver being set up correctly, this is what they responded with, note that Godaddy tried to sell me their Server Maintinence plan, awesome.

Thank you for contacting Server Support. Please note that your request falls outside our realm of support, as the virtual dedicated/dedicated server in your account is currently on our unmanaged support policy. These servers are sold with the understanding that the client will be able to administer their own server, which includes configuration of security and applications of the server. If you do not have server administration experience, it is strongly recommended that you hire a server administrator or purchase an assisted service plan.

However, we currently offer a paid-for support service for our Virtual and Dedicated Server customers who need help beyond what we can offer through a general call or support ticket. This service is intended for customers that can maintain their server but are struggling with a task and would prefer for us to assist them with resolving the issue.

It is $75 for the first 30 minutes. If you find you will want to utilize this service please reply with the details of the task you will need assistance with so that we may accurately reply with a quote for the estimated time to fix the problem.

Services available include:

* Advanced technical support for system problems, such as server availability and other network or system related issues
* Version upgrades and advanced troubleshooting on Plesk, Apache, Qmail and others
* Database assistance, such as data import/export
* Installation of GoDaddy SSL certificates (Blue Razor and Private Label will also apply)
* Setup of Plesk, Simple Control Panel and cPanel Domains and DNS
* Setup of your Hosting account
* Product and Environment Q&A, including versions, limitations and restrictions
* Walk-through for the Getting Started Guide
* Password Checks

Services NOT available include:

* Direct phone access for advanced hosting support
* Installation of 3rd party software and scripts
* Migrations from other servers and 3rd parties
* Backups/Restores
* OS Hardening
* IP Tables Configuration
* Custom scripting or code development 

Boo to you GoDaddy VPS server! You worked so well!

Before I jump in and create the site though, I want to research keywords to target. I entered the obvious keyword in Overture's Inventory Keyword Tool, "Money" and here are some of the results that I received...

• 621419 money
• 322519 money market savings account
• 105016 make money
• 44151 make money online
• 42983 free money
• 40525 auction coin money paper
• 40441 blogging money thebillivard.com
• 38303 money site thebillivard.com web
• 33457 cnn money
• 32596 making money program thebillivard.com
• 31532 money in the bank
• 30735 unclaimed money

What was interesting was seeing the phrase ["blogging money thebillivard.com"] searched for 40441 in the month of January. I don't know if this is an error from the keyword tool, but I can't see to fathom how that many people could search for "blogging money thebillivard.com". If anyone has any ideas, please enlighten me.

Do you really need money now? According to Yahoo's Overture Traffic Estimator, 700 people searched for the term "I need money now" in the month of January. I checked out the google search query for [I need money now] and found out that most of the results were for make money instantly scams, no surprise.

The internet has ample opportunity for anyone to easily start making money online. It's as easy as setting up a blog and writing interesting posts that engage visitors. Pick an interest, and start writing about it, the more expensive that interest, the better. Do you like plasma screen TV's? Create a blog that reviews plasma screen TV's and sign up for affiliate programs that direct your visitors to where they can purchase a plasma screen TV. Websites usually give you 5% commission of visitors you send them. 5% of a plasma screen TV can easily solve your money issues.

I checked out the price of the "I need money now" keyword using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and found out that advertisers are paying around the $8.00 range to have their ad displayed in search results and on a page for the term, need money now. Now if 700 people a month are searching the phrase I need money, and I rank #1 for that phrase, lets say 500 a month visit my site. Of those 500, say 50 click an ad, with Google taking approximately 30% of the cut, that leaves me with $5.60 a click, and times that by 50 clicks equates to $280 a month.

Ok, Ok, so what I'm basically doing is creating a page dedicated to the phrase I need money now, and embedding it into the title, the url, and placing the keyword phrase, I need money now, inside the text of the article so that Google Adsense will deliver the high paying ads for needing money now!

You can do it too, all you need to do is start a blog and target some keywords that pay a lot, do a google search for [top paying keywords]. Make sure that your page is search engine optimized, then you can generate free traffic to your blog, and have visitors read your post, and hopefully click on a relevant ad that is displayed by Google Adsense. That is my advice is you really need money now!

With so many sites popping up, I decided to create a DoFollow Keyword AJAX Search tool. The idea is to use the google custom search engine to search only sites that have DoFollow. You can then search only websites with DoFollow enabled your targeted keyword and then comment on those posts to receive a link back to your site. Pretty cool eh?

DoFollow Site Search

DoFollow Search Example

Here is an example, say you own a travel blog, and you are targeting a specific keyword, "Florida Vacations". All you have to do is search for "Florida Vacations" and blog posts which have DoFollow links on them will show up, you can then write an informative comment on their blog, and receive a link back to any page of your website, with correct anchor text.

If you would like your site added to the DoFollow Keyword Search, leave a comment with a link to your blog, and I will add it as soon as I can. Also, if you stumble upon a site that does not have doFollow enabled, contact me right away so I can take them off the DoFollow search list.

What benefit does a link train do for a site? In the search engine world, creating back links is essential for gaining respect from search engines to be placed in search engines results.

One criterion Google looks for in links is differentiating anchor text, example: This is Anchor Text. If you participate in a link train, the backlink to your site will contain the same anchor text since it is being copied over and over. John Chow, a professional blogger about making money online devised a scheme to create backlinks to his site with the anchor text, "how to make money". Thousands of links started to pour in, and Google viewed all these links, with the same anchor text, as link spam, and banned John Chows site from the Google index, even for his own John Chow's name.

Google has incredible software engineers working on solving problems to detect link spam. I can almost guarantee the are aware of these new link train schemes popping up, and are already adjusting their algorithm to make sure these link trains don't affect search rankings. Google results return the most relevant content to a user, however, these posts create nothing more than duplicate content, and create no useful information to a user. Often times blog posts contain the same exact title, same description, and almost the same link train list. This will surely trigger a red flag in Google's algorithm, and all link value will be lost. Check out Google's Policy on Link Schemes at Google's webmaster center.

For bloggers and webmasters looking for the easy way out, don't try these new link train schemes. Link trains will only hurt the respect of your site by creating spammy links coming from duplicate content sites. As a case study, I participated in one link train scheme, and my technorati authority went from 7 to 26 in a day. However, what is worse, getting banned from Google for link spam, or having a low Technorati rank? The best way to get back links is through relevant informative content and creating relationships. Check out the search engine journal f you need advice on creating quality link baitingcontent.

Google Page Rank is a scaling system ranking sites on a scale of 1-10 based on their web authority. The higher page Rank a website has, the more it is viewed as an authority page. There are many factors that go into determining page rank, such as the age of the domain, topics of the site, incoming links, and other factors.

Many sites on the web use the Google Page rank to determine the worth of a site. Sites like ReviewMe and TextLink Ads use the Google Page Rank of a site in factoring advertising costs. The Google Page Rank algorithm is always changing on a daily basis, however updates are only released to the public periodically.

I believe the Google Page Rank should be made more public. I would like to know what Google thinks of a page, if it is well respected, before I visit it and take in that information. If I visit a site that has a page rank of 2, then I know that the site is most likely not going to be beneficial.

Props goes out to Dean Hunt for coming up with a link scheme to try and rank for the terms Google PageRank though. I am always looking to take part in link building schemes.

Here is the list of websites that are on the "SAY NO TO PAGE RANK" bandwagon.

*** SAY NO TO PAGE RANK, YES TO LIFE WEBMASTERS LIST***

Buzz Marketing Blog
Young Entrepreneurs Blog
No Nonsense Business Advice
Sell your blog
CS Developer
Aplliance Journal
Madkane Humor Blog
Find New Leads
PHPied
UK SEO Directory
Bikinifigur: Abnehmen ohne Hunger
Bob Meets World
BlueJar Webmasters Guide
All Sux Dot Com
CodingPad
The Next Post
Tech Blog
Reality Wired

So, lets analyze Ebay's site and how it works. Ebay is filled with auction listings of products. Each listing has a dedicated page, and the page life itself exists for the duration of the auction period, 7 days. What use is it for Google to index Ebay product pages if they only last 7 days, and then are not useful anymore?

Ebay has just come out with the Ebay Product Review sub-site. This Review subsite hosts landing pages for particular products with: links to auction listings, reviews for that product, and an Ebay product description. Google searchers often search for a particular product, and having this useful page with multiple sources of relevant content streaming in on products should boost Ebay's placement in search results. The content on this page is always changing, due to product reviews, and auction listings always changing, giving the page new relevant content. In doing this, Ebay is creating very useful permanent product pages for Google to index and return in it's SERP's.

One question... Ebay, where are you in the Google Product Search(formerly Froogle)? This is a free service offered by Google that you aren't taking advantage. When searching for an exact product in Google, if that product is in the Google Base, your product will show up to be #1 since most of your products are priced very low. This is all free too, no more spending $25 million. The Google Base also feeds of reviews of everything, now with Ebay's Product Review site, Ebay could submit their massive database of product reviews and generate a whole new stream of free traffic.

For the future, I see reviews dominating the search engines. I believe search engines will be returning relevant useful information, and when searching for a product, searchers want to find a product, cheaply, and have a wealth of information on that product from descriptions to user reviews and opinions. Ebay is setting itself up to be a major contender in the search engine results to Amazon with it's new Product Reviews and Details service, so it will be interesting to see how Ebay's strategy will play out in the end.

Pretty ingenious if you ask me, one of my partners who I am working on a project with has used Fat Fingers exclusively, and ended up winning a laptop value at $2600 for $800. Ebay usually doesn't sell products for top value, but that is an incredible savings. Obviously, this is going to work better for items that have more listings, since you will have a better probability of finding a typo item. During the grabd rush for Xbox 360's and Playstation 3's, Fat Fingers could deliver some finger licking good prices on overpriced items.

Have you had any experience, good or bad, with Fat Fingers? Let me know! Or if you find any other innovative sites such as Fat Fingers, be sure to let me know!

One affiliate John Chow rants and raves about is TextLinkAds, a company that sells targeted ads on a site, for the purpose of ranking well in search engines. As posted on Pronet Advertising, Why John Chow gets owned by Google, John Chow has evidently asked bloggers to link to his blog with the phrase, "make money online", a ploy to manipulate search results. However, in Google's algorithm, it checks the text of every link to make sure that it was naturally made, and not posted by a spammer. Google's algorithm must have mistaken John Chow's ploy to rank for the term "make money online" as a way to manipulate Google's algorithm, and thus getting banned from Google Search results, even if you search the exact domain name, Google Search [John Chow], it still doesn't show up.

When coming up with ideas for sites, I always take into perspective how search engines will play into the site. Look at the tremendous success wikipedia is having, due to it's high traffic from it's Google search results. One of the main benefits of having a blog, and using blogging software is that it is optimized for search engines right out of the box. I wonder how long it will take John Chow to reclaim and get his site unblocked from the Google bots. Any how, good luck with your blog John Chow, we are all rooting for you to fail!

This is the adwords tool I use. It is designed for advertisers in mind, but what I do is do a search for "Madison", then Choose data to display: => "Cost and Ad Position Estimate", put in a high value like $15, and then it shows how much advertisers are willing to pay for that certain keyword.

I think the best way to go is to target places by city. This could play heavily into what sections we have go into the site, ect if we really want to make some cash.

In order to get those ads to show up, we have to place keywords all over the site, a good percentage would be around 5%, so we should have "Madison WI", or a variation to get high paying Madison keywords.

Adsense Tips and Tricks Mike Cheney's Adsense Videos <= This guy makes his own videos on how to make alot of money from adsense, he gives one short preview lesson, but the video set is $97, this might be something to look into as far as a business expense.

Localize It

Right now I am getting around 10-20 cents a click, but if we target our areas towards specific cities, i think we can raise that even higher. 10% of the time someone views a page in my blog they click on it. So if were getting anywhere close to wiscolinks pageviews, which we should easy surpass, this means alot of cash, and this means that we could possibly bypass the venture capitalists and do this site on our own.

Ad Positioning and Color

Also another thing that improves click through rates, the rate of people who click on the ads per page view dramatically increases depending on where you position the ad. Such as on the template Steve printed off for me, he had the google ad on the bottom left corner, this is pretty much useless since a user almost always tunes those ads out. What I would suggest is having the google ajax search bar at the stop, with a horizontal leaderboard ad under that, and then the ajax webportal that houses all the information. This way the ad is inbetween two key things, the search bar, and the relevant content that we will have.

The huge benefit of using this tool comes with the huge database of keyword information that google houses. Here is a list of all the different search options the Google Keyword tool lets you hone in on.

• Keyword Search Volume
• Cost and Ad Position Estimates
• Search Volume Trends
• Possible Negative Keywords

From an adsense publishers point of view (selling google ads on a website to make money), I like to see how much advertisers are paying for their ad to show up for a specific keyword. Just click the Cost and Ad Position Estimates option and type in a your keyword, and a high price, such as $15. You can then sort each specific keyword by search volume, advertiser competition, and how much an advertiser pays to have their ad displayed in one of the top 3 positions. Are you thinking about starting a blog and want to make money from it? Use this exact example to target specific high paying keywords, and start generating content to that specific keyword and display Google Adsense ads, and in no time, you will be bringing home large checks, and you might even start to pay the rent by blogging.

This is Google's suggestion on what the tool is used for..

Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. Pick one of the tabs below and enter keywords or URLs that are relevant to your business. Keyword Tool Tips Important note: We cannot guarantee that these keywords will improve your campaign performance. We reserve the right to disapprove any keywords you add. You are responsible for the keywords you select and for ensuring that your use of the keywords does not violate any applicable laws.

Upon that, the owner of the website would like most of the stuff hosted on the front page, and also to make is so there is no page refreshing to get new content. So this will let me put my new book I just bought, php and ajax, to good use, and will also let me implement some cool mini ajax applications, such as a drink special catalog for bars around Madison, and possibly a menu viewer that shows menus from restaurants around campus. There are many features that can be packed into the site, and I have only started to program them, but hopefully within the near future, you shall see a sweet Wiscolinks website.

UPDATE:
Well things didn't seem to work out too well with Wiscolinks. To be quite frank, the owner has no knowledge of how to run an online website. One of his ideas to make money was to gather people's information, and then sell it. As a web developer that considers himself to have "web standards" this was not looked upon as a good idea. After spending my entire spring break working on the site, and repeatedly asking for help and information from the owner, he was unresponsive, and plain out disrespectful. So, I've decided to part ways and will not be working on Wiscolinks any longer. The website is a great idea, but the owner is a complete douche bag that shows no respect for Web Developers, which is no surprise considering he made the site using Front Page and frame, hello? Please step outside of 1990 and come join us in 2007.

My prediction for the future is that computing will be straight through a browser. As web browsing and scripting languages such as PHP and AJAX are getting more powerful by the day, and browsers are being more standard compliant, it is ever more clear that applications that were once only available as a desktop application, will be moved to the browser. For example, check out key moves by Google, Google Gmail, an ajax application that mimics Microsofts Outlook, Google Docs, the equivalent of Microsoft Word and Excel.

Even though these applications are not as powerful as much the desktop applications, they are being equipped with more functionality each day. As web technology increases, and the internet starts becoming more reliable, there will be a shift from operating systems to the browser. The key advantage to this is, one can use Linux which is free, and cut out Windows or Mac OS, thus saving alot of money. Also the huge benefit would be your computer can travel anywhere with the rise of mobile technology all your files are within reach of a server. With the combination of better internet connetivity and the development of new and better web applications, the browser will soon take over as the primary users tool, leaving Microsoft in the dust.

Now that I have my website in place, and pretty much finned tuned to be a search engine optimized machine, I can start focusing my time on other things. I recently joined the UPL WebSig group, and we are working on making a game called CampusWars which is a risk type game that is based on the UW-Madison campus using Google maps to implement the game play. It's currently under major development, but you can check out the development at UW-CampusWars

I am also planning on joining the UW-disc golf club, and their website was in a sorry state, but I have taken some responsibility duties, and am taking over the web design duties for the club. I am not sure of all the features that are going to go into this site, but I thought it would be nice to have a tool that records your disc golf scores, and shows you improvement throughout the season. It would be a helpful tool, and give me some experience building a cool web application.

Capital Language Group has also asked me to build them a website for their translation company. It is preceding into the final stages of development and hopefully will be released very soon.

I am also looking for new projects and ideas, if you have a project that you need help with, shoot me an e-mail or feel free to contact me! Thanks for tunin in!

You can find out all the rules at poker.seoblackhat.com

completed

• Full div table-less layout - search engine optimized
• Content Management Through Administration Panel Allowing
• MySQL data storage of articles, images, videos, and code
• Easy
• Google Adsense integration to start making money
• Calendar System that tracks when Posts are made
• XML sitemap that automatically updates when a post is made or edited
• RSS content feeds for each directory
• Insanely sweet layout
• Music Player

In Progress

• Multiple Images Per Post
• Possibly some flash games, and a link farm to free tv shows

Recently I wrote an article on Alluc, and how it provides it's users with links to pirated content. I used some of my SEO knowledge and came up with a title, "Alluc org-asmic pirated content" So now whenever anyone searches for alluc.org, which a fair amount of people do, my result shows up in 3rd place, lending to a huge surge in traffic for my website.

Before this article got ranked in google search, I was averaging about 20 visits a day, now I am in the range of averaging 375. This has led to a positive result in my adsense account since the more people that visit my site, the more chances there are to click on an ad, thus making me some cash.

In order for you to cash out money in an adsense account, you must reach over $100. With my meager 20 visitors a day average, this was seeming impossible and I was on track of meeting the $100 mark in about 3 months, but with the surge of traffic from being able to post articles on the fly and manipulating the title so that my article would show up for a specific search term, "alluc.org" has paid off.

I am not allowed to disclose exactly how much I am making from adsense, but I can greatfully say that I am over the $100 hump, and have surpassed it with grace. Thank you alluc.org for lending me a topic to write an article on, as well as providing us all with pirated content!

My first task was to come up with a solid layout that I could base everything off of. This is what took the most time because I wanted to create a layout based on div's and css code. This is harder than it seems since different web browsers display css code differently, and Internet Explorer is a real hassle to deal with. I decided on going with a basic blog type layout with fixed widths. This way I will know everything will render in the correct spot on different screen sizes and in different browsers.

Once I got the layout done, it was time to start the hardcore php programming. I created a layout class which controls the header, navigation bar, content area, sidebar and the footer. My main goal was to create something that I could build upon in the future, and something that I could easily update whenever I feel like it. There are six main directories that most of the content is held in with four of the directories being main content ones. Pretty neat eh? Overall, I just wanted to test my design and php abilities to try and create something that is powerful and sleek. Let me know what you think!

I will mostly be doing php programming and creating web applications that interact with mysql databases using ajax. I'm new to ajax, but have always wanted to learn how to use it, since it is hyped up to be the next best technology to take over the browser. It allows you to interact with a database and fetch and display data without having to refresh a page, which creates web pages that are very user friendly and elegant.

I am also going to start doing contract work for my old job at the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives, still doing web design work for the updates that they might need to their website. This means that I'll have to open up a bank account under a business name, and it will be pretty much like I am running my own business. So, if you are in need of a website or any programming working, you can hire my services, and it will be tax deductible.

Thats about it for now, keep it real..

I have been doing some re-organizing and such to my entire site and had some broken links that could be the cause of the degrade.

From what I've read, there are many other factors that are taken into account when calculating rank in search results, such as title, keywords, incoming links.

I've been working on trying to get my site to be run through php and mysql databases so it will be alot easier to update, and keep content fresh, thus being more serach engine friendly. I'm still devising a way to get more incoming links which I have very few of.

This upcoming weekend I will be taking part in a Undergraduate Progamming Leauge (UPL) Hack, which is where you program for 24 hours straight and try and get one project done in a group or individually. I'm going to try and do something with php and ajax and hopefully post it on here. I am thinking about making a tool that will be usefull to everyone, possibly something with the facebook API, we shall see.

Hope everyone got out to vote today!