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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Normally, I do not discuss drugs on any of my blogs. However, this advertisement for legalizing and taxing marijuana to support the tax base makes sense to me.

Perhaps my change of heart has something to do with my son being arrested, again, for smoking marijuana. He is only 19 years old and is almost a junior in college, but he will be spending the rest of his college career in jail. Yes, he smokes marijuana. This is like the fourth time they have busted him. Yes, he is stupid.

Last time, DEA busted down his door with guns drawn. This time, the three big policemen from the narcotics division came. I believe the cops in San Marcos would rather bust a skinny, stupid, struggling teenager than tackle someone with a gun or a knife, maybe someone dangerous like a burglar or murderer, what about child abusers and other true criminals. Why my son?

Why My Son?
Why is he a felon because he smokes pot?

We elect politicians who have been caught with crack and cocaine while in an elective office. He forgive our officials who spend state money on flings to foreign countiries. We allow governors to rewrite humane laws, sue people who pissed them off, and turn down money from the federal government.

WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

Monday, July 6, 2009

We Are Idiots!

This was sent to me by a good friend who swears it is real and not photoshopped. I do not know if that is true, but it is funny. Syrian protesters asked the wrong man to write their signs in English. This is true in life, too. Know with whom you are dealing before you put up any money.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

What You Should Know About Blogger

Just this month, I have had the opportunity to help some folks with some Blogger template issues. These are questions I have had before, so I thought I would share them in a series of posts so that perhaps they will help someone else.

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Before Making Changes to Blog Template or Settings

Backup your template. You have read this before. From you DASHBOARD > SETTINGS > EDIT HTML > EXPAND WIDGET TEMPLATE (check it) > copy entire template to a plain text editor, like NotePad or WordPad. SAVE AS blogname_backup_6 digit date (CoolAdzine_backup_070109). Do this for all your blogs.

TIP: May I also suggest that you add another blog to your dashboard? Call it TEST or SAND BOX or whatever you wish. Copy your entire blog template to this test blog. Experiment with anything on this blog before changing your actual blog. Make sure you update your Google profile to NOT show this test blog.

One Way To Remove Navbar In Blogger

1. Open your Blogger dashboard.

2. Go to LAYOUT > EDIT HTML

3. Find this phrase.

/* Variable definitions
====================

4. Add the following phrase above the phrase found in step 3 :

#navbar-iframe { display: none !important; }

5. Save your settings and view your blog now. The navigation bar will be gone.

TIP: You may also want to read How to Remove and Hide Blogger NavBar (Top Navigation Bar) » My Digital Life that provides several ways as well for the different versions of Blogger.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Top Ten Cool Blogs for June

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to our top droppers on CoolAdzine for Marketers blog in June!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

SEO, Page Rank and PR Sculpting

First there was an insider's post by Barry Schwartz, who attended Search Marketing Expo - SMX Advanced.

June 3 : Barry Schwartz : Search Engine Roundtable : NoFollow To Cause Revolt: Wasted PageRank via Sculpting & JavaScript Links Require NoFollow

Next, we have Philipp's post, who basically passed on the information from Barry's post.

June 8 : Philipp Lenssen : Blogoscoped.com : Wasted PageRank Sculpting, and JavaScript Links Needing Nofollow

On the same day we have a summary post by ineedhits.com that adds some useful information.

June 8 : Rene LeMerle : ineedhits : Google’s Changes to Nofollow Management Undermine PageRank Sculpting

A week later, the official explanation appeared here J une 15 : Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO : PageRank sculpting. Rather than enlightening us, Matt gave us yet another SEO term to befuddle us: Page Rank Sculpting.

Now, I tried to read and understand this post, because I wanted to be able to pass on some useful information. However, when Matt wrote, "PageRank corresponds to the principal eigenvector of that normalized link matrix." What? AAUUUGGGHHHH!

Ten years ago, I first heard the term, search engine optimization (SEO) from a Yahoo! guru at a conference. The big thing back then was to do away with frames, add meaningful title and metatags.

Today, I am a "do follow" blogger and the only links I am not following are the ones above in this article. So what should you do? I am heading over to check the blog of my favorite SEO guru, Andy Beard.

Andy Beard : PageRank Sculpting Isn’t Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

As usual, Andy has covered the topic and has links to current information. If he can simplify the issue, he will. It is not his fault that I am still confused . . .