SEO – Design – Flash – Development for the Web

Words at Play

eewwwww…Neato

When the site loads…form the words….”Words at Play” to enter the site,
then just explore away….it’s cool.

Word Count
Some People have a lot of time on thier hands.
This site, shown to the Empress by Art Chimes of Arlington, lists — horizontally in one lonnnnng line — 86,800 English words, from “the” to “conquistador,” including names, in order of the frequency in which they appear in a collection called the British National Corpus (which would explain why “London” pops up at No. 242, while “Washington” festers down at 2,932).

I wrote two poems that I submitted to a contest that wanted poems using consecutive words. check them out….

Words for first poem and the numbers they appear on the site.

yuck 46946
supergun 46954
skewers 46957
pairings 46958

“Ouch…Yuck and stunned,
I was felled by her Supergun.
Only to be pinned with Skewers of such nasty pairings,
Oh, for the love of god, I’m being flogged with stinky herrings.”

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Words for second poem…and the context which it was written.
Context: I used to work at METAGroup when Gartner bought us out…and started laying off everyone.

lashings 46965
unearned 46966
snared 46967
gartner 46968

“Blissful lashings unearned!
Snared by Gartner and discharged.”

Wow this is a great Masking Technique & Flash Page Turn

Check it out this “Macromedia Site of the Day” – try to make something like this and your on your way to great actionscripting and motion

Well, I was thrilled with the motion and the effects of this page turn. The masking technique used to show the skeletons of the characters was done with some real pizzaz!…pretty clean work. Great Job!

Hey…Neat MouseOver

This is a cool concept that we may be able to implement into the Hotel Sites. We may be able to use it instead of a new window for “More Info” or possibly for The interactive Map information.

Check it out!

Well, another few weeks have gone by. I have found our site moving up in the results again…thank GOD.
Google mostly…
when doing a search using our key phrase we have jumped everywhere. I’m pretty psyched.

Something that is helpful for all SEO’s-
It seems as though Google and Yahoo differ on one important ranking feature. SubDomains.
If you have them … Yahoo likes…really Likes.

Google on the other hand….doesn’t give you any credit for it. Oh well.

Good luck

Well, for starters I have multiple website that I’m working on for SEO. Roomrate.com is what I have been writing about and have mentioned AirportsandHotels.com. Well, I know we reached greatness in Yahoo with AirportsandHotels.com ….but, it doesn’t seem to mean crap to Google.

I just don’t get it. I’ve been cleaning up some of the site in case it is duplicate content…but still no results
I thought, maybe sandboxed….so we’ve asked for reinclusion….

and then – Bam! we have a PageRank of 3 – from no PageRank.
Go figure….we can’t get ranked but we still get a PageRank number. Any thoughts on that one…..NO…really…any thoughts?

As written on “GoogleBlogscoped”
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-01-n31.html AND
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ramping-up-on-international-webspam/

Seems as though, someone at BMW thought it would be a good idea to use a javascript redirect for a doorway page on BMW parent site. Google didn’t like it and damn…they got de-listed. If that wasn’t bad enough, they need to fill out the famous “http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py” form.

Well read it and learn….Content is key…try not to be sneaky.

Another version of Google’s new server addresses provided by WebProNews(Gotta Love this) Thanks, Guys! Just wanted to post it so I didn’t add another link somewhere….

Here is a list of the new datacenters that was posted at Webpro:
For those that follow Google’s data centers some changes have occurred

The OLD Google Datacenter IP’s

www-ab.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.51.100
www-cw.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.57.100
www-dc.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.39.100
www-ex.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.33.100
www-fi.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.41.100
www-gv.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.59.100
www-in.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.53.100
www-kr.google.com. 60 IN A 66.102.11.100
www-lm.google.com. 60 IN A 66.102.9.100
www-mc.google.com. 59 IN A 66.102.7.100
www-sj.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.35.100
www-va.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.37.100
www-zu.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.55.100

The NEW Google Datacenter IP’s

new centers follows the naming convention (the first three octets) of the old DC’s:

www-ab: 216.239.51.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25
new1-ab: http://216.239.51.99/ www.google.akadns.net
new2-ab: http://216.239.51.102/
new3-ab: http://216.239.51.103/
new4-ab: http://216.239.51.104/
new5-ab: http://216.239.51.105/
new6-ab: http://216.239.51.147/

www-cw: 216.239.57.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25
new1-cw: http://216.239.57.98/
new2-cw: http://216.239.57.99/
new3-cw: http://216.239.57.104/ www2.google.com www3.google.com
new4-cw: http://216.239.57.105/

www-dc: 216.239.39.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25
new-dc1: http://216.239.39.98/
new-dc2: http://216.239.39.99/ www.google.akadns.net
new-dc3: http://216.239.39.102/
new-dc4: http://216.239.39.103/
new-dc5: http://216.239.39.104/
new-dc6: http://216.239.39.105/
new-dc7: http://216.239.39.147/

www-ex: http://216.239.33.100 OK 2004-01-25
new1-ex: http://216.239.33.98/
new2-ex: http://216.239.33.99/
new3-ex: http://216.239.33.101/
new4-ex: http://216.239.33.102/
new5-ex: http://216.239.33.103/
new6-ex: http://216.239.33.104/
new7-ex: http://216.239.33.105/

www-fi: 216.239.41.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25
new1-fi: http://216.239.41.98/
new2-fi: http://216.239.41.99/ www.google.akadns.net
new3-fi: http://216.239.41.102/
new4-fi: http://216.239.41.103/
new5-fi: http://216.239.41.104/
new6-fi: http://216.239.41.105/

www-gv: 216.239.59.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25 (New: 2003-08-01)
new1-gv: http://216.239.59.98/
new2-gv: http://216.239.59.99/
new3-gv: http://216.239.59.102/
new4-gv: http://216.239.59.103/
new5-gv: http://216.239.59.104/
new6-gv: http://216.239.59.105/

www-in: 216.239.53.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25
new1-in: http://216.239.53.98/
new2-in: http://216.239.53.99/
new3-in: http://216.239.53.104/
new4-in: http://216.239.53.105/

www-kr: 66.102.11.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25 (New: 2003-09-01)
new1-kr: http://66.102.11.99/
new2-kr: http://66.102.11.99/
new3-kr: http://66.102.11.104/

www-lm: http://66.102.9.100 OK 2004-01-25 (New: 2003-10-23)
new1-lm: http://66.102.9.99/
new2-lm: http://66.102.9.101/
new3-lm: http://66.102.9.104/

www-mc: 66.102.7.100 DEFUNCT (2004-10-20)
new1-mc: http://66.102.7.98/
new2-mc: http://66.102.7.99/
new3-mc: http://66.102.7.99/
new4-mc: http://66.102.7.102/
new5-mc: http://66.102.7.104/
new6-mc: http://66.102.7.105/
new7-mc: http://66.102.7.147/

www-sj: 216.239.35.100 DEFUNCT (2003-10-17)
new-sj: no new-sj

www-va: 216.239.37.100 DEFUNCT 2004-01-25
new1-va: http://216.239.37.98/
new2-va: http://216.239.37.99/ www.google.akadns.net
new3-va: http://216.239.37.102/
new4-va: http://216.239.37.103/
new5-va: http://216.239.37.104/ www.google.akadns.net
new6-va: http://216.239.37.105/
new7-va: http://216.239.37.147/ www.google.akadns.net

www-zu: 216.239.55.100 DEFUNCT (2004-10-20)
new1-zu: http://216.239.55.104/

Note: The www.google.akadns.net notes where google frontends (www.google.com) have been observed recently – www2 and www3 are IP’s for those DCs.

The NEW Google Directory IP’s

The naming convention is the same as for the Data Centers:

directory-ab1: http://216.239.51.106/
directory-ab2: http://216.239.51.107/
directory-cw1: http://216.239.57.106/
directory-cw2: http://216.239.57.107/
directory-dc1: http://216.239.39.106/
directory-dc2: http://216.239.39.107/
directory-ex1: http://216.239.33.106/
directory-ex2: http://216.239.33.107/
directory-in1: http://216.239.53.106/
directory-in2: http://216.239.53.107/
directory-va1: http://216.239.37.106/
directory-va2: http://216.239.37.107/

I finally got a number #1 for something I wanted.
“Dallas Aiport Hotels” + “Yahoo” = “Dallas.AirportandHotels.com” which is us.

So some things do work I guess. Although, we are having some issues with Google, I at least got a very cool “#1″ spot in Yahoo. Still trying new things with some of my other sites, but I will rethink a couple of decisions.

1. To stop using SubDomains?
2. To use KeyPhrases- as mentioned below.

http://www.michaelklouda.com

A quote from a new friend has stimulated some new thoughts.

“I think you will be much more successful if you try to target 5 really focused keyword phrases that you know users search on instead of a large set of really broad single words”

I really like this line of thought, it seems simple and logical .. so, why wouldn’t we try it out.
I have just redone my approach to focus on some other keywords and it has improved the rankings…but, I’m still not satisfied. So, I plan on giving it a shot.

Thanks Michael….BTW-nice website!