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Re: The Alois and Marie Goldmann Scholarship

PunctuatingR — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:44:40 -0000

Very interesting! I'll pass the word along to my homeschool contacts ...

Heidi

Re: Review: David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual

PunctuatingR — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:37:55 -0000

All righty. I'm trying to stay away from too much design / graphic work, being as it's not my forte, but I will definitely keep that in mind if I end up with any thorny problems!

Re: Review: David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual

PunctuatingR — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:25:01 -0000

Hi, James! I like your post. I have never been much of a photographer since I was about 14 and had one of those first little digital cameras that probably cost my parents an arm and a leg (or at least a few fingers) and didn't have a decent view-finder or any flash at all. I was disappointed with it, and eventually discarded the notion of all photography. However, my mother is enthusiastically amateur.

While working on a couple of websites recently, I needed a graphics program, and stumbled on GIMP. I have to say, I really like it. I know it gets some flack for not being Photoshop, but I can do everything I need to (my needs are a bit limited) and it seems to have all the proper functionality. The only thing that bothered me for a while was the inability to open .psds, but I got that figured out with a ghostscript hack, so it's all good now.

Re: 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community

PunctuatingR — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:57:14 -0000

Awesome tips, thanks!

(Here from Shannon Paul's Very Official Blog.)

Re: Writing a book before the end of the year.

PunctuatingR — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:34:04 -0000

Sounds good. You know where to reach me. :-D

Re: Writing a book before the end of the year.

PunctuatingR — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:20:09 -0000

Hey, Tac! Did you still want to get together and chat about that book sometime? Lemme know ...

Heidi

Re: I’m following you!

PunctuatingR — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:29:55 -0000

Cool idea, Jim. I think I've seen about three or four people in the last week giving away free link love. I wonder if it's going to become a new trend. It'll be interesting to see how it progresses. Thanks for the opportunity to develop my page ranking, I do appreciate it!

Re: Marketing Guru’s, equality and attraction

PunctuatingR — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:59:44 -0000

Hello, Jim.

I just came over here from Twitter -- I thought you said this was about SEO? I see what you're talking about with network marketing, but you really haven't addressed SEO at all.

If input is what you're looking for (as seems possible from the comments), then as a copywriter I'd have to say that well-written static content, good keyword density, and regular and effective blogging are what you need for good SEO standings. Clean URLs are also important -- it looks like you've got that going for you already. Outside links, as well, which are generated pretty effectively by commenting on other people's blogs, and, if they are so generous, getting linked to in the body of their posts.

I've been directly working with three different sites on SEO for the last two months, and I'm happy to say they're doing spectacularly well. One is an established URL whose site just got completely updated; they saw more traffic in the one week after updating all the text than in the previous year. The other is brand new, and was just officially announced yesterday. I'm excited to see what will happen there.

Heidi

Re: A Community to Drive Visitors to Great Content With Few Readers

PunctuatingR — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:55:14 -0000

Hey, James.

Thanks for the comment. Writing I can do, and have done for a long time -- internet marketing I'm still trying to get the hang of. I think your articles are valuable, and I look forward to gleaning a lot of good tips and information from them!

Thanks for the ideas on future posts, too. I'm always collecting possible topics.