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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!

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

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JMBlog Archive for June, 2009

Nigerian Scam Moves Headquarters to United Nations

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Today I received a spam from the United Nations — well, at least it *says* it is from a Mr. Tim Peterson of the United Nations Department of International Fraud Surveillance and Control– claiming to have shut down the bank accounts of the unethical and fraudulent Nigerian scammers. But not to worry, my funds are safely being held in trust by the United Nations [obviously stolen UN logo inserted here].

un Nigerian Scam Moves Headquarters to United Nations

After laughing myself silly, I realized that Mr. Tim …

Kid’s view of psych drugs

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

This video from CCHR gives some perspective from both the parent’s view and the child’s view of the harmful effects of the psychiatric drugs he was forced to take. The parent was forced to drug his child by the court system (he says so) or he would lose parental rights to the child.

I believe what they were forced to experience is wrong on so many levels it is hard to know where to start.

Parents should be making the decisions about what drugs to give their children, not their schools …

SEO of big drug-rehab site

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

I’ve been working long hours on a large drug rehab site (over 200 pages), taking it out of a Content Management System (CMS) so we can actually optimize each individual page for its keywords; it’s a relatively large project as these things go. It has a ton of drug information to help educate people on the dangers of drugs.

Their CMS system was really getting in the way of doing things like adding a “canonical” meta tag to each page of the site.

Over the years I’ve optimized several smaller drug rehab sites; yesterday I …

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