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Eclectic links worth visiting:

Words in a Row Search Engine Optimization Explained - My business website. Get tons of great, practical advice about how to design a website to help market your products online.

Heifer.org - This site does wonderful things about world hunger. Stop in and give a hungry family a milk goat or a bee hive! It will take you five minutes, $25.00, and do your morale a world of good.

The Way to Happiness - a non-religious moral code based on common sense. As Thomas Jefferson said, "Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts ... in which all religions agree." For a limited time you can download a free ebook version of The Way To Happiness.

Sleep Release - Having trouble sleeping? Get some "Sleep Release", a Chinese herbal concoction that helps me get to sleep faster and sleep longer. Highly recommended.

The Federalist - an email newsletter published three times a week by Mark Alexander, throwing the light of reason on political matters. This is not Rush Limbaugh or Ollie North blowing hard, this is another look at matters as reported by left-leaning media, after stripping away the varnish of socialism and multi-culturalism. They find the most interesting quotes of the week and publish them. You won't find most of them anywhere else.

A Few of my Clients

In alphabetical order...

  • Art and Sports - the front end of this site doesn't look like much, but it is the back end that is important in this case -- it enables its owner to run his entire ticket sales business through a web-based database, from anywhere.
  • Candy Favorites is the oldest candy distributor in the US, and has 2600 different kinds of candy for sale on its website, which we optimized.
  • Chandler's Natural Soaps - the best place for natural soaps for dry skin. We oversee the ongoing optimization of this site.
  • Christmas Gifts - the best directory of Christmas Gifts available online. We've been through two major redesigns with this site over the last 9 years, and kept it on page 1 at Google for its main search phrases.
  • Drug Rehab.us -- a drug counselling service that can help you get and keep yourself or a loved one off of drugs.
  • For Soapmakers, a site selling supplies to the handcrafted soapmaking community. We oversaw the SEO of this site.
  • Front Sight Firearms Training Institute out in the desert near Las Vegas, is the largest firearms training facility in the US, training more people in how to safely use firearms than all the other schools in the US put together.
  • Gilleard Market Research -- a site that will research from your customers and prospects exactly what you need to say to sell your products.
  • Gloves in a Bottle, the dry skin lotion that works to help heal dry, cracked skin. Recommended by hundreds of dermatologists. Great stuff - even helps protect my skin against poison oak!
  • Harmony Cedar Furniture including hope chests and cedar chests. We have been through several rounds of optimization with this client as his site has grown over the years.
  • Miami Condos -- my client has one of the most helpful and informative websites about the hundreds of condo buildings and thousands of condo units for sale in Miami at any given time. We recently cloned his site into a Spanish version. All database driven and all doing very well for its search terms.
  • Narconon Arrowhead drug rehab - helps get people off drugs without getting them addicted to new drugs. They have an amazing complete recovery ratio; after two years, about 70% of their graduates have not gone back on drugs of any kind. They deliver the miracle-making technology of the Purification Rundown developed by L. Ron Hubbard to get and keep people off drugs by getting rid of the physiological cravings.
  • Narconon - Drug Rehab - this is the international headquarters of Narconon. They have been responsible for getting tens of thousands of people off drugs, and run the international network of Narconon drug rehab centers.
  • On Target Market Research -- this clients publishes a great newsletter and has been doing market research for about 30 years.

Other Blogs

Scientology Section

Scientology Index - Thirty-three years ago it was the Scientologists who rolled up their sleeves and helped me overcome my dependence on drugs, and I've been clean ever since. I know first-hand that Scientology offers practical solutions for "unsolvable" problems like drug addiction, the inability to communicate, depression and other emotional problems, abusive family situations--you name it. In fact, there is a whole directory of life-changing help to choose from. Whatever the situation, something CAN be done about it. And without drugs! "May you never be the same."

Review of Gordon Melton's recent book on Scientology.

All Experts on Scientology. Ask an expert any question you like about Scientology. (Or you can just ask me - I've been a Scientology minister for 25 years.)

Center for Studies on New Religions - CESNUR gives a mostly unbiased look at what's happening with Scientology in Germany, Spain, Italy, etc.

Dianetics & Scientology - an article from an Indian Perspective. Interesting to see someone piece together the connection between Scientology and ancient Indian philosophy, from the Indian viewpoint.

Scientology in a nutshell - a very condensed explanation of the belief system of Scientology. If you like Readers Digest, you'd like this.

ReligiousTolerance.org - I had some discussions with the editor of this independent site about his pages on Scientology. He was very hard-headed, but something must have soaked through, because the resultant changes he made in the article make it a lot more representative of the truth about Scientology.

Yahoo Group About Scientology - membership is not restricted to members of the Church of Scientology. If you have questions, this is a good place to get straight info.

What is Scientology - a good overview of the subject. Why does it need an overview? Because it has so many pieces - drug education and rehabilitation, promotion of literacy through specific tools, handling of spiritual trauma, self-improvement, etc.

The Scientology Handbook - well, it's way too big to be a "hand"-book, but it does have all the basic information in it. Worth reading and applying - when I review it I see many tools that have changed my life for the better.

Theology.Scientology.org - You one can download a PDF of the theology and practice of the Church of Scientology.

CCHR Section

CCHR is the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz. I've been a member since 1971 when I first found out about it. It is a citizens watchdog group -- apparently the only one that oversees and exposes the human rights abuses of the psychiatric profession. If you've ever seen a banner at an APA convention that said "PSYCHIATRY KILLS" -- that's CCHR at work!

CCHR Oregon - a new website put up by my friends at CCHR Oregon.

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