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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 November, 2009

Problems with brand new affiliate sites

Monday, 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

Thursday, 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”

Sunday, 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?

Monday, 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 …

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