Alphabet Soup

The SEO industry s full of confusing terms and acronyms to people not following it. i.e. PPC, CPC, ROI, SEM, drip systems, Link Popularity, optimization, Page Rank. These are also the tactics needed to succeed online. Most professioanls I speak with are to busy to work on their website let alone learn all the new technologies. We have blogs, Podcasts, MLS systems IDX. Some of the busiest professionals I know are real estate agents. They hire SEO companies to get traffic. Traffic that does not produce sales is useless. They need a website to capture this "traffic" and turn them into leads.This is a growing field, that needs constant training and research. This is what I do on a daily basis.

Search Engine Optimization

My job requires me to understand and keep up with the ever changing world of SEO. I'm a website marketing specialist who can identify keywords,analyze competition, and look at link structures.I can optimize meta tags, body, text, title and internal links to get more traffic.Building links with realated sites will help with ranking as well. Search engine submission. Tweeking of websites to ensure maximum exposure to the search engines. Web statistics have to be monitored and tactics changed based on trends in traffic.

Shuttle Debris

Listening to the radio this morning I heard the shuttle did a 180 so the astronauts could get some pictures of the underside of the shuttle to check for damage, foam fell off during launch.They are supposed to do a spacewalk later this morning. I do not want to see us lose another shuttle. I watched Challenger STS-51 blow up on live TV in grade school, it still haunts me to this day.

Widgets

When I was surfing the web the other day I came across Apple's Widgets, I wanted some for my PC so I searched and didnt find much, yesterday I came across http://widgets.yahoo.com

IT problems

I love IT at my work, our Exchange server is having problems, cant locate my contacts,and my calendar is out of sync and cant be shared,thank god for backups. Next my permissions are changed so that I cannot save to my desktop and I have this standard Orweillian desktop controlled by the man.

Wednesday Morning

Last night I played around with Whoppix, it's a security based Linux (Knoppix).Whoppix is made for penetration testing.I realy like this distribution because of the amount of tools around on the disk. It has tools for enumeration, scanning, wireless, and even a vulnerability DB.Some of the tools are Nessus, Nmap, also Nmap with a GUI. Netcat, Snort, Most open source databases and tons of other software.I was analyzing C code most of the night to learn more about control structures. After that I pretty much relaxed with my lovely lady.

Another day at work

The space shuttle launched today at 7:39am, so far so good.Space shuttle frequencies for rebroadcast in Southern California > 145.280 446.900 447.200 448.500 449.300
145.300 146.880 1241.250 1277.000 1283.250 1284.150 147.000 147.270 224.080 434.000
147.705 147.930 224.900 445.200 223.960 145.320 224.940 224.700 145.460 146.655 147.150 224.040
It made it to orbit, which is a good thing :)Today I realized I need more of an online prescence. I work for a real estate website design company, at night I research or do consulting work. My interest's are networking, network analysis, computer science, search engine optimization, programming, and open source solutions. I enjoy all flavors of Unix and Linux, but prefer OpenBSD and Gentoo. Computer forensics is a subject Im looking into.