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Shopautodotca Seocontest and Operation D.A.V.E.
2007-04-03 01:42:00
Yay! I had another idea today of something I can do to help my shopautodotca seocontest site. My past few ideas have been sheer SEO brilliance, so hopefully this will pan out in a big way too. My climb has been slow but steady, and that is kind of SEO I know how to do. My site did not shoot to the top really fast, but it has held its ground and kept climbing.So I am off to work on what I like to call Operation D.A.V.E. and though I cannot tell you anymore details about Operation D.A.V.E., it's really good. See I am so bad. I am one of those people that says I have a secret but then won't tell it. So mean!Selah! Shopautodotca Seocontest by Danielle begins Operation D.A.V.E.


Google plays April Fool's Day Joke, or Potty Humour
2007-04-02 23:27:00
So yesterday Google posted something about project "Dark Porcelain" whereby they were now developing a method by which the internet could be transmitted through the sewers and up through your toilet. They would even include a pair of rubber gloves to help with installation. Good one Google! I love a company that can poke fun of itself. Usually me and big business don't jive because capitalist I am not, but Google is a okay. Here are Google's positive qualities:They are good at sharingThey don't try to bamboozle you with flashinessThey are funnyThey are contemporary - the change with the timesThey are excited and passionate about what they do (look at how many Google employees have blogs about Google, I would not keep a blog about my work unless you paid me, which they did!) So anyways... just wanted to let those people in the shopautodotca seocontest know about the funny prank Google played. I wish I had seen it. I guess I was just too busy working on my website to notice.
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Your Mom and the shopautodotca seocontest
2007-04-02 22:55:00
I wish there was another girl in this seocontest. I tried to get one of my friends to do it too. She won't and she thinks that it sounds boring.I guess if this was not something you really loved to do it would not be that great. But since I love search engine optimization, I have no problem spending a bit of time on this darn thing each night. I would be doing it for other sites if not for this one.Hey just a side thought, as I know most of the contestants are in London Ontario, at the flower store we are having a mother's day contest and she wins 6 arrangements delivered throughout the year (it's an over $300 value). I was actually looking for places to post that contest when I came across the shopautodotca seocontest, and subsequently decided to join. But anyways, I know this totally sounds like a plug, but really I don't care if you enter or not. I just thought I would let the Londoners know about this contest. And while you do not have to live in London, your mother must live i


Living up to my potential - Or not another SHOPAUTOdotca SEOcontest post
2007-04-02 22:33:00
My big problem is my lack of ambition. Not to say that I do not find myself motivated. Only that I do not find myself dreaming of wealth, power or fame. Not to imply of course that I do not succeed at all I do either, and I though not famous, I could be referred to as infamous in the right circles. It is simply that though I am sure, and I have been told, that "I have all the potential in the world"... and then "so why don't you use it".Well you know what, to all those naysayers out there, it's my potential and I will do with it what I darn well please.I have hitchhiked across North America a bunch of times, I have lived in countless environments where I was forced to adapt, I am at once comfortable in a professional environment as well as on a farm. But still, since Danielle did not turn out to be a doctor or a lawyer, what a disappointment. There was some hope that I would stick to an academic career but my inability to tolerate pretentious people would make it very difficult for m
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UN-Marketable Skills by Seocontest Danielle
2007-04-02 22:26:00
It is really not often that I find myself in a position where I have a marketable skill. This SEO thing is kind of cool because who knows, maybe some day I will find myself in a position where I can do this for money (and guaranteed money as opposed to the tentative money that is being offered in the contest).Some of my most unmarketable skills are:I can weave baskets out of pine needlesI make really nice sculptures using polymer clayI am a very good essay writerI can crochet those hats that people wear over their dreadlocksI can tie a cherry stem with my tongueI can make cinnamon buns out of anything (seriously I once made cinnamon buns using four ingredients and cinnamon had to be one of them, well and the others are pretty easy to figure out if you just use process of elimination as to what MUST be in the bun)I can eat lots of cinnamon bunsThere are others, but like I am going to write them all?!
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Seocontest Poll: Hockey vs. Ringette
2007-04-02 08:54:00
Congrats on not losing your hockey game Jeremy! I played ringette when I was younger but that's actually kind of embarassing. Absolutely right, a tie is better than losing.See I kind of hope that everyone that is in the contest gets a chance at one prize. That would be cool. (I would like the top three prizes though, but I am pretty sure I am not the only one). There is no one that could not use some extra money (well except for Mr. Trump and Mr. Gates). I would pay off my loans and buy a new computer, and probably a too expensive handbag and a quarter chicken dinner with white meat and fries with an extra chalet dipping sauce and maybe perogies too with cajun seasoned sour cream. Yum!In case you have not noticed, there is no poll. Why make a poll for something you already know the results to. Don't worry men, hockey is way cooler than ringette and I would never try to dispute that.Later Gators!


What do Nelly Furtado and Big Bird have in common?
2007-04-02 08:44:00
My eyes, my eyes they bleed!What is this? Why? No! Bird? Big Bird?!No Nelly ! Stop!
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Cars Cars and More Cars
2007-04-02 08:07:00
So this is supposed to be about used cars right?And used car classifieds?What would my dream car be?Well... It would probably be a truck. One of those older trucks you know that you see at car shows. They used to have a good one in Wortley Village but now they are moving that to the Western Fairgrounds. I used to call that hot dog night because they have hot dogs and now I will have to cook my own. So sad. Anyways my truck would probably be painted some god awful girly colour like pink or something just so as to deter men from wanting to drive it and because I love pink. Either that or chocolate brown. Yeah. Chocolate brown and pink interior. Beautiful. And it would have one of those really loud mufflers like a cherry bomb.Either that or a hovercraft but those are probably only for astronauts.So link to my shopautodotca seocontest site at http://shopautodotcaseo.tripod.comor add your links to http://shopautodotcaseo.tripod.com/links/index.htmlThanks for supporting my shopautodotca seoc


The Seat of Victory and Shopautodotca Seocontest
2007-04-02 07:29:00
The seat of victory - A good posture on a horse robs your opponent of his courage and your audience of their hearts - why do you need to attack? Sit like one who has conquered!Nietzsche from Human, All Too HumanClearly Nietzsche has never been in an seocontest. While being confident and keeping "good posture" is important, I don't think anyone is going lose courage. Not with a big cash prize hanging in the balance.I am kind of looking forward to seeing the contest end. I know a lot of people have gotten bored and are not really updating their sites that much. I am not doing that great, but I am going to keep trudging away. I trust that the search engines will eventually come to their senses. My domain name should not matter at all. MSN is just loving my site, indexing lots of my pages. Yahoo hates me and Google just can't make up its mind about me. Who knows. I don't care what they think anyways because I love my shopautodotca seocontest site.My link directory is pretty much up and
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On Being Funny for Seocontests (especially the shopautodotca)
2007-04-02 00:10:00
Well, I have sought some advice from being on Yahoo SERPs and they have advised me to be funny. That is what everyone (with different variations) told me to do. Make funny interesting posts? I can see what they mean - good post means people visiting, linking to your site, create a buzz.But be funny? I mean, I think I am a laugh riot but that does not mean anyone else does. Sure people laugh when I say stuff that is stupid but they are probably laughing at me most of the time. My mom laughs when I do the impersonation of the big huge bird on Rescuers Down Under from Disney. But how many people are really genuinely funny and interesting? And what does being funny have to do with SEO and my shopautodotca seocontest?A lot.Nobody wants to link to a site that is devoid of personality or content. With this type of contest, there is really not enough time to create good site that people will want to link to. So you need to catch their eye with your charming self. And even if you do want to fol
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Seocontest Unrest and All The Rest
2007-04-01 22:47:00
So I have been noticing that some of the contests in the shopautodotca seocontest have started wondering if this contest is a scam. Big ugly toenail man is getting really steamed too. He is getting downright belligerent in fact.So the new site in the contest was I belive experiencing a mysql problem, it was resolved however but now his site has been indexed as ERROR. That sucks.Did you know: Tripod does not even support mysql. Isn't that funny too! No mysql, php, asp. Just html, perl with a cgi-bin. That's okay. I don't know nearly enough about all this to really be able to use it all anyways. I am learning but I don't want to learn all the programming languages at once you know. Might overload. But eventually I will learn them all right. But I will know not to use Tripod, though I thank Tripod for being there for me throughout the shopautodotca seocontest


My shopautodotcaseo.tripod.com Free Backlinks
2007-04-01 21:54:00
I am in #1 in Google for "seo danielle". Not really the point of all this, but it makes me happy nonetheless. So now try to get to #1 for Danielle too? Lots of porn stars up there at the top, and Danielle Steel and all. But I will try nonetheless.So my new link directory is up for the most part. I am still working on it so some pages are not yet up. But I was too eager to see it indexed so I put up what I have done so far. It is nothing fancy just xhtml with form mailer to submit links and I put them in the pages myself. I don't really know much about databases yet, and all the templates are php and I know nothing about php so I decided to build (from scratch) a link directory like the one they have on Yahoo!. I might even add search capabilities with one of those free site search widgets. We will see.You can find my new link directory at http://shopautodotcaseo.tripod.com/links/


Ramblin' in the shopautodotca-seocontest
2007-04-04 06:54:00
Maybe Yahoo! hates my seocontest site because I barely use my Yahoo! Blog? And I wonder why I never use my Yahoo! blog?... hmmm that's a tough one (see the sarcasm is lost when you try to write it in a blog). Because I don't see how Yahoo! can just love me then dump me. What did I do?shopautodotca seocontest on Yahoo!Whatever.That's Bertolt Brecht. He is one of my famous playwrights. I don't think he is that well known, but you think he would be since he designed his plays to speak to "THE COMMAN MAN", as opposed to say, theatre of the absurd dramatist Beckett who wrote a play called Waiting for Godot. ***sidebar - once sat through a freaky techno version of this play. not cool*** Anyways, Brecht was a big communist so he wanted his plays to speak to the working man and woman, which they do. He is known for his didactic plays: he teaches you lessons in every play and the messages unfold and reveal themselves rather than find themselves obscured by the hubris of the dramatist. My f


Search Engine Results - by shopautodotca seocontest
2007-04-04 06:05:00
You learn a lot about search engines by participating in a search engine optimization contest (or seocontest), that you might otherwise not. Having done this for the site at work (which boohoo lost all its PR points because stupid Rogers hosting was stupid and the site was down off and on for a few weeks), but that's neither here nor there, I find now that I must adapt my techniques much more to counteract the fact that there are other people competing against me. I was just as diligent about the seo for that site, and though I am sure many florists get seo companies to optimize their sites, there was not really any "competition". I did not know near what I know today, so that is why I think that. With the shopautodotca seocontest however is not just about what you are doing, it is about monitoring the growth of other sites in the contest.Not to mention everything moves at a much quicker pace.I found I have had to adjust my strategy so many times, and I have found that I can make up f
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Darn! shopautodotca seocontest
2007-04-04 04:04:00
Darn so I dropped to number 2 in Google.But a temporary setback, I assure you. (Okay not feeling so confident).


Shopautodotca Seocontest - What now?
2007-04-04 01:09:00
So I made it to the top in MSN and Google (and Yahoo.com) but what now? Now that I have made it to the top... I am going to have to think of something almost mythical to stay. What to do... What to do... ?You know, I have to stop thinking I can bull*!*$ my way out of this like I can do with an essay. Sure so far, yeah, but I have a feeling things are going to start heating up right about now.So check out our contest sponsors and please answer my question on the FORUM. Or want to check out what is new and exciting in the shopautodotca seocontest? Well the page is right in front of you silly!


Scooter
2007-04-03 03:35:00
That's it. I am giving up this darn seocontest and I am going to just ride my scooter now that it is spring. Yeah right. But there is a lot of scooter in my future let me tell you. I love my little Honda Jazz. And even though scooters are totally gay for men to ride (what you can't handle a bike?) I look super tough on it. I look like I am going faster than I am too because I make serious-face.I bought it four years ago when I was bartending at the "biker bar" and/or "exotic ballet". It made me feel so tough to park my little scooter that makes less noise than a sewing machine next to the Harleys. I once wiped out in the gravel making a no-slow-down-turn into the parking lot... I was so embarassed because there was a bunch of guys standing there so I stood up, raised my hands in the air with a grin and said "It's okay that's how I stop!". So I rubbed some dirt on my wounds and went the hell into the bar to hide. I was so embarassed.I got hit by a truck once too. Totally his fault.


Huh?
2007-04-03 03:21:00
What's with these sites:www.shopautodotcaseocontest.cawww.shopautodotcaseocontestwinner.comThe .ca site has not been spidered since Mar 6?and again why www.autoswap.ca? I really do not see how Yahoo! can give any rank at all to this site. I am pretty sure there was another site up as there are lots of backlinks in Canadian directories and no way a human-edited directory would accept that.This seocontest has taught me a lot. And one of the things it has taught me is that search engines are so screwy.


Snowing in spring
2007-04-05 19:47:00
Wow! Esteban has a lot of sites. Though he may not know it from now on in the contest I will try to learn from what he does because he has been at this for longer than me. He can be sensai. Anways enough about the shopautodotca seocontest.Today it snowed. And yes, I realize it is spring, but apparently mother nature did not agree with me and the fact that the seasons should have changed and that it's easter weekend and the crocus have started to bloom.You know that was always get "itchy feet" as my dad called it then... when the crocus would bloom in the spring. And then by May or June I would go somewhere and nowhere at the same time. I loved being a teenager. No rules no consequences no holds barred.Anyways I have other things to do other than spend time on my silly-girl-blog shopautodotca seocontest. Later.But one more thing: Yahoo! Answers is so much fun and I think it's a good thing I am in the contest otherwise I would be a Yahoo! Answers addict. You get to give people advise a
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Shopautodotca Seocontest: Spam Box Filters
2007-04-05 17:56:00
When I started the shopautodotca seocontest, I set up a special seocontest email address of course. Well, what is nice about my seocontest mailbox is that, while typically I will open my email inbox and I will grumble at all the spam I get, but in this case, spam emails are usually still good. So when I check my shopautodotca seocontest emails, and I see that I have received spam, I will most certainly check them because more often than not they are emails I want to receive. What I find strange however, and what sort of confuses me about spam filters in email inboxes is that sometimes emails from the same email address will go into the spam box. But the emails are not like spam at all ! . ? I am sure I could change the spam filters or remove them. But it's sort of like when you get a scratch and win ticket and there is that extra bonus box that you get to scratch (except in this case you actually win). But it's still like a little surprise after you have checked your real emails (tha
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Chips & Dip, Blog Providers & My Seocontest by Shopautodotca
2007-04-05 01:36:00
I can't decide if I like Wordpress or Blogger better. I have heard that Wordpress is easier in terms of search engine optimization. Something about it not cutting off the end of your post title or something like that. And a bunch of other stuff. I should have paid attention.Anyways, the thing I like about Wordpress that really appeals to me and that Blogger does not have is the post traffic and feed traffic information about my shopautodotca seocontest blogs. It tells how many people have visited your post on what day and what they read. Which is nice to know, because with blogger I don't have that. I can check that now with my traffic reports from tripod, but they are not charted out all nicely like Wordpress. I know that there are traffic report things I can use but I don't really care that much. It's just nice to know, and it is easy to check because you just have to click the tab.But I am posting everything remotely know for the most part so I don't really actually "see" my bl
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What do you want be? by Seocontest Shopautodotca
2007-04-04 23:07:00
So sure I want to win the shopautodotca seocontest! But I do other things too you know besides this seocontest sponsored by shopautodotca.I had a job interview today, and I have never in my life felt so comfortable. It's all open concept and everyone is sitting at these big desks and staring at their computer screens and listening to their iPods. The computer screens were so big too, even bigger than the one I have, and mine is big. Think of how many windows I could open! And I bet you they have really good computers too (they have cables running up around the ceiling). It was like I had come home to my people. All the people I know are not interested in stuff like this (and for that matter a lot of them don't seem interested in much at all these days beyond the mundane). That's what I really like about myself - my youthful exuberance. Anyways this place is perfect for me. And nobody yelled at anybody else the whole time I was there. And it did not seem like they did that there, it


Shopautodotca Seocontest Types Mindlessly
2007-04-04 18:20:00
Oh I type, but there is nothing mindless about it, and frankly I take offense to that.Either way, my shopautodotca seocontest site rocks! It has a main site full of articles and resources about seo, a link directory and blogs. Each time I post, a new page of content appears for my site... How many pages do I have now? Anyways... check out my shopautodotca seocontest! Full of mindless blogging and much much more!Now that aside, so I am #2 in Google now. Esteban has #1. He has been doing this for a while and has lots of sites to link to his already, so I don't feel that bad about it. Sure I am #2 but I still know I must not totally suck at this to have made it here.I am going to keep up my same strategy, adding to it slowly as time goes on just to keep things interesting for me. I have been building backlinks in various ways, in the typical and not so typical ways. Soon will pay off I hope.


Shopautodotca Seocontest Types Mindlessly
2007-04-04 18:20:00
Oh I type, but there is nothing mindless about it, and frankly I take offense to that.Either way, my shopautodotca seocontest site rocks! It has a main site full of articles and resources about seo, a link directory and blogs. Each time I post, a new page of content appears for my site... How many pages do I have now? Anyways... check out my shopautodotca seocontest! Full of mindless blogging and much much more!Now that aside, so I am #2 in Google now. Esteban has #1. He has been doing this for a while and has lots of sites to link to his already, so I don't feel that bad about it. Sure I am #2 but I still know I must not totally suck at this to have made it here.I am going to keep up my same strategy, adding to it slowly as time goes on just to keep things interesting for me. I have been building backlinks in various ways, in the typical and not so typical ways. Soon will pay off I hope.


Shopautodotca Seocontest
2007-02-04 17:55:00
Visit the shopautodotca seocontest!


On doing stuff
2007-04-06 21:06:00
I don't feel like doing anything this weekend. I don't want to go out. I don't want to get dressed up. I don't want to pretend I am having fun. I want to stay home and do nothing and snack! I know that is not what will end up happening because my arm will get twisted. Why do people always have to do stuff ? Like oh yeah... if I go to the bar I am sure something exciting will happen and I am sure I will meet cool people and have a great time... yeah right!? My friend called me last night she wanted me to go see her friend Bob play at Norma Jean's... yeah and fer sure I wanted to go. No way! You know what, they are just all too cool for me I think. I value substance over form, and the opposite seems to be the case for most other people. Well not everybody, I guess I am just all moody today.


Tranferring your blogger blog to another host
2007-04-06 19:35:00
So as you know I have transferred my seocontest blogger blog to my own host. I needed this done and though there were some moments that I thought: "what was I thinking?". Now in retrospect it was a lot of work but totally worth it.But I was having some trouble finding out the best way to do this without screwing up my chances by doing something like this so late in the game (as the the blogger blog would now be my main shopautodotca seocontest blog and the Tripod blog would not matter).I was not sure if I should leave all my posts up or do meta refresh or delete the blog entirely or delete some of my posts in the blog.I left the posts up at first, leaving the blog as is with my last post saying that it had moved. But Yahoo! I believe was viewing this as duplicate content and was ranking my blogspot blog higher than the one that now had more posts that was hosted own my own server. So my official site was not doing well in Yahoo! because of the other blogspot blog. So I knew leaving up


Making my blog pretty
2007-04-06 10:09:00
To hell with winning this contest. I am going to waste all my time making my blog pretty!


Wordpress vs. Blogger
2007-04-06 08:37:00
So I spent half the night playing around on Wordpress , getting to know it as I am used to using Blogger now. Wordpress is so much better! I wish I had used to Wordpress for my shopautodotca seocontest.When you add hyperlink you can add title tag.The template designs are so much nicer.The blog stats and the feed stats.Uploading is a lot faster. There is more flexibility with the templates. It's a lot more community driven.There were a bunch of other reasons that I thought of when I was using it.Anyways, when the shopautodotca seocontest is done I am going to start a blog, and it will be on Wordpress. Sorry Google I love everything else you do!


.COM and .NET domain name price increase
2007-04-06 05:04:00
So I just read that the price of .com and .net domain names are going up. .com names will go up by 7% and .net domains will increase by 10%. To deal with an increasing need for greater infrastructure do deal with demand, as well as threats from hackers, they are increasing the prices of these domains. Though Verisign runs the computers that dole out 266 other domain suffixes, they are only increasing the price of these two as this will generate enough revenue to meet their requirements. The price change is set to occur on October 15, so I imagine there will be lot of domain names purchased over the next few months.


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