November WordPress MeetUp

I was fortunate enough to be able to moderate a panel of WordPress experts a week ago at OfficePort here in Kansas City. We were discussing security issues, fixes, and plugins and I’ve rounded up the presentation notes and links here for you! Add your own plugin suggestions in the comments! Baby...

SEO, Social Media and Real Estate Barcamp Kansas City

This week I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at the second Real Estate Barcamp in Kansas City. This was my first time at a Barcamp ever, a good initial experience I might add, so I thought I would recap the top tips that people received during the day. Twitter Persona – You don’t have to be...

Update Your Browser.

Value Your Comments. We Sure Do!

On the heels of my rant about spam, it occurred to me that I didn’t lay out any specific thoughts on how you can go about making valued comments on the blogs you read. We all have blogs we frequent or forums or newspapers. The really good ones get a lot of comments and, most of them, have a moderation...

Star Wars and Spam: Identifying Spam Clones in Three Steps

If you own a blog that you update more than never, then you have what amounts to a spam magnet. It’s generally innocuous, if entirely weird and unrelated, but that does not make it any less annoying. If you write three times a week about really popular topics, and if you’re remotely popular...

Patience is a Virtue, Even in Business

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a field that is constantly changing. Google is updating, competition is outranking you, and customers choose to search for something else. Every day is an exercise in adaptation. Today I’ve been thinking about the adaptive nature of SEM in relation to my level of...