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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

Still here? If you have something to say, post a comment or send me an email.

By the way, if you feel like taking offense at something posted on this site, go right ahead, it won't bother me a bit. Kingsley Amis has a nice quote about that, in which I take solace and some pride when the flames arrive:

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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How one determined drug addict spearheaded effective drug rehabilitation around the world

January 8th, 2010

The good folks over at Narconon recently put together this video about the early days of Narconon, which has now been saving lives for over 40 years.

Although I found out about the Narconon drug rehabilitation program in 1972 when I was working in Los Angeles, and I visited their drug rehab center, I never met Willie Benitez. But I heard the story; as an addict and prisoner at Arizona State Prison in the mid-1960’s, Willie figured out how to apply some of the information developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology …

New Neal Fox video – “Ask Your Doctor” is a hoot

January 5th, 2010

Love this new video from Neal Fox called “Ask your Doctor”. Turn up the sound and enjoy!

Be sure to read the text at the end: 100,000 people die from “correct” prescription drugs in the USA every year. Neal posits that the purpose of the FDA is no longer to “protect the public”, but that the FDA’s purpose now is to “protect the drug companies.” I think he’s on to something there….

Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon — has no clue

January 4th, 2010

I recently faxed Senator Jeff Merkley my reasons for opposing the massive Obamacare health plan that will put one sixth of the US economy under the Federal Government, at a cost of trillions of dollars.

His reply came a few days ago in the mail. It’s an obvious form letter he sent to answer all those annoying faxes that mysteriously piled up in his office from the thousands of people like me who faxed him our objections and asked him, as our senator, not to vote for Obamacare, which he did anyway.

The gist of his message to me is …

Tell the FDA to keep dangerous ECT machines listed as dangerous devices…

January 4th, 2010

The FDA is considering reclassifying ECT machines (Electro Convulsive Therapy or shock machines) as Class 2 devices instead of Class 3 devices (which are dangerous). This would allow more widespread use of these barbaric instruments by psychiatrists.

Note that ECT Machines have never been tested for “safety” — they can’t pass any such safety inspections or tests because they cause irrevocable harm to patients who are, for the most part, forcibly administered electro shock. Sending hundreds of volts of electricity through the brain is not something that should be condoned by the FDA.

Give the FDA a piece of your …

How to Get Links To Your Site

December 24th, 2009

I routinely check all the outbound links from my site using a program from www.xpelo.com to look for sites I link to that Google has banned, and using www.linktiger.com to find any broken links. If your site has a ton of broken outbound links, or if you link to a website Google has banned, you can bet that Google will penalize your site.

I found one such banned link today on my site, on a page I hadn’t updated in a a while; I updated it with all the info I have on how to effectively get links to your …

Problems with brand new affiliate sites

November 30th, 2009

Michael H asked:

I have recently obtained a domain name. Under my domain are products sold through Amazon.com sure you are well aware of associate marketing. I guess i need somebody to be honest about forthcoming costs in relation to registering on search engines and how to go about it successfully with minimum cost, maximum effect. Can you help ?

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My reply: You are in for a long uphill battle if you want to compete against Amazon itself for the sale of the products you are selling as one of their affiliates.

Google doesn’t like affiliate sites and …

Overwhelming evidence that psych drugs cause suicide, murder, mayhem

November 26th, 2009

This little database of about 1000 stories that have been carried by the media in the last ten years shows the overwhelming evidence of psych drugs (and trying to withdraw from them) being the CAUSE of extremely violent behavior.

It’s hard to read down through this summary and not feel outraged. Here are some random highlights from the long, long list:

  • 6 Year Old Dies on Psych Cocktail
  • 7 Year Old In Foster Care Dies From Poweful Antidepressant
  • 10 Year Old Girl Dies in Mother’s Arms From Toxicity of Antidepressant
  • 11 Year Old

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Using .htaccess to make search engine-friendly URLs – “There is no spoon”

November 15th, 2009

User Jan wrote me with the following query about optimizing database driven websites.


Hi there,

I have a question about search engine friendly sites in regard to your article here about SEO of Database-driven Websites. I’m trying to make a website search engine friendly, using descriptive urls. Currently every link to a subpage looks like this: www.dom.ain/?visit=cat

So I only have 1 index file that provides information the user wants. Is there any way to improve this without creating a new php for every page on the site?

I thought about creating a *.htm that will …

Does My Website Need a Static, Dedicated IP Address? Really?

November 9th, 2009

Chuck of Chuck St. John Photography asked me the following question by email:

“I don’t seem to have a static IP. When I did your test, and used the IP # given, It did not take me to my web page but the to hosting
companies’ web page :-(

My answer was:

“Yeah, that happens a lot. It means your website has a ‘dynamic, shared IP address’ which saves the web hosting company a ton of money.”

Chuck is talking about the …

What’s wrong with psychiatry? Let a psychiatrist explain….

October 25th, 2009

This two-minute video from CCHR explains what’s wrong with psychiatry. It’s from Dr. Niall McLaren, who’s been a practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, and is the former head of the Dept of Psychiatry at Repatriation Hospital in Australia.

Bluntly, he says that psychiatry is pseudo-science and that all their bunk hangs from one skyhook, “that mental disorder is brain disorder”. And that there is no proof whatever to that premise.

As he says, “bugger the money” that’s being wasted on psychiatry and psych medicine. It’s the inability of psychiatry to actually help people, and the actual harm that it …

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