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JMBlog Archive for March, 2007

From an SEO point of view, this kind of site re-design is cause for extreme concern.

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

A large candy site which I’ve been optimizing for the last 3 or 4 years has had top natural placement in the search results for the keywords “bulk candy” and “candy warehouse” for most of that time, at Google and elsewhere. This client now has great rankings for hundreds of individual candies.

The site is undergoing an extensive re-design to handle back end problems, which re-design is scheduled to go live today.

We have moved the site from Windows IIS hosting, where the pages all ended in .asp or .aspx, over to a Linux Apache mySQL PHP (LAMP) platform, where …

Thank you, Narconon… I never expected to be this happy….

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Emily’s Story:

“I didn’t know where my life was headed, and I didn’t care. I was doing as many cocktails of different drugs as I could. I was 18 and had been using drugs for four years. It started by using only on the weekends, using with friends at parties, wherever. It quickly escalated to using methamphetamines along with other drugs daily and before I knew it I was shooting up as much as a could whenever I could. The whole time I was doing it, I thought I was alone.

You would think that after getting arrested for possession …

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