Their client list is also so impressive with clients such as Godaddy, Netflix and Snapfish. Well I guess we all need a way to write our taxes off.

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In the past few years I have noticed how search engines have evolved into something completely different for users. Back in the late 90s up until around 2005 search engines were used for just what they were made for, “SEARCH”. But with new technology comes new direction, unfortunately directions that we take are not always good ones. The wheels of time are turning and we are looking at the downfall of our biggest search engine to date “Google”.

Why do I say this? Well lets take a look into the past, because if we don’t look at the past it is doomed to repeat itself. Which is exactly what it is going to do. The motions have already been set and the ball has already started to roll for a search engine that will destroy Google on every level.

Okay, so looking back in time, one of the main reasons that Google destroyed Yahoo! was that Google had a better search, was faster, sleeker and it had more to offer. There also was another underlying reason that many people didn’t notice, not even Yahoo! themselves. Yahoo! stopped paying attention to Search. They were going in too many directions at that point and not focusing on what was important “SEARCH”, thus it was very easy for Google to crush them.

Now lets fast forward in time a little bit to 2009. A search engine was launched that was supposed to be known as the Google Killer, that search engines official name was Cuil. With just a bit of advertising Cuil made it into the Alexa top 100 within 2 days.

Why did this happen? partially because people were curious and partially because people wanted to see if it could out perform Google in it’s SEARCH. Unfortunately Cuil did not do that and became the laughing stock of 2009. But while everyone else was laughing there were few who were plotting. They watched Cuil’s mistakes and seen how they could capitalize on where Cuil went wrong. One of those few people were myself.

So for some time now a team and I have been working on a search engine that would blow away anything Google had to offer along with completely annihilating them in the most important thing to all users, which is SEARCH.

So while our search engine is still under development, we will be launching on November 4th 2010. This search engine will pick up in all the places that other search engines fail. I will not go into details yet but in a short period of time I will give select few access to the working Beta so that they may see how much more efficient it is than other search engines BTW we already have a very cool domain name reserved Darect.US

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So lets look at some of the scenarios on what is wrong with this:

1) if Google does this (and includes Google analytics in this equation) then how will I know what keywords are profitable for me on Adwords. I would be blind to the fact of what searchers are making me money and which ones are not.

2) If Google does show keywords in analytics then where does that leave all the other web analytics programs. Can you say monopoly.

Now with this being said lets look at some of the reasons why Google would do this:

1) they want to keep THEIR data private (Yeah Right).

2) They want every webmaster to turn to them for search analytic (This is probably the better of the 2 theories).

Now ask yourself why would they want complete market share over a product they give away for FREE.

1) they are gonna charge for it (That would be a smart move but again very unlikely).

2) They wanna know every thing that is going on, on every single website in the world. Google will have complete knowledge of every websites moves and actions.

Now Google originally brought all this up because they say they want to protect your privacy. That is very true, they do wanna protect your privacy from everyone but Google.

This has to be one of the most underhanded and deceitful things that Google has ever done. I once had great respect for Google but slowly that respect dwindles with every underhanded and sneaky little thing they do. So in closing please take a stand against this abomination and abuse of power. Retweet this post, blog about this, do everything in your power to save these small anaytic companies who have spent years developing software, but most of all save yourself from being under the tyranny of Google.

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Now while I am on that note let me tell the person who wrote me that 700 word comment (that I didnt post because of all the nastiness and vulgarity). Please do not threaten to come down here to beat me up for not writing. I post tutorials on my time, I do not get paid for doing this and this blog makes pennies a day (literally) off of adverts. I do this because I like to write. I am not obligated to write nor do I get any kind of compensation. I am not intimidated by your little threats now will that get me writing again. What that will do is get your IP banned from my server so that the little bit that I have been coming out with, you will not see. Also I very much doubt that you will have a fighting chance in hell winning a fight on my territory.

For all my fans who don’t know what that last paragraph was about. To make a long story short some idiot wrote me a threatening comment saying that he was going to hit me with a sledgehammer and beat me up if I didn’t start writing more often. Well needless to say I found it more comical than scary, but if he would like to take a crack at it my address is pretty much out all over the net.

Again loyal fans I am sorry for the lack of writing but I will be writing again within the next week.

Thank you for your patience.

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Everyone knows that a major key to internet marketing is to keep that bouncerate down. Today I am gonna show all you people (Like Me) that like to install a million plugins on your blog but still keep it running somewhat fast. Some of these are probably tricks that you already know but for the Newb’s I must post them. Well here goes nothing:

Install WP Super Cache Plugin – This is a great plugin and it has done wonders for my blog. What it basically dos is takes a popular page/pages and caches them on you server so that every time someone comes to your site it is just pulling a cached page rather than going through all of the requests that are usually needed when someone visits a page.

Replace Dynamic Wordpress Code – There are a bunch of server side functions in the header that you can manually replace with static links i.e. can be replaced with http://www.example.com (Re place example with your site name).

Cut Back On Server Requests – Everytime you upload a picture or video to a blog it adds another request that your server must make. The easiest way to get rid of this problem would be to upload videos and pictures to places like Flickr and Youtube.

Sweep Up You Database – There is a really nifty plugin for cleaning up your database it is called “WordPress Clean Options Plugin”. What it basically does is take unused/orphaned code that were left behind from old plugins and draft posts and empties them out of your database.

Delete Old Unwanted Plugins – Or you can disable them but I believe in deleting them altogether to get rid of the possible code that it installed on your server and if your not using it your just wasting server space.

Supercharge Apache – Read the following post and it will teach you plenty on speeding Apache up http://www.howtoforge.com/configuring_apache_for_maximum_performance

Well I guess there are a couple that I can’t think of right now but I am sure you can get plenty more info from the following posts on this topic:

4 Simple Ways To Speed Up WordPress

4+1 Ways To Speed Up WordPress With Caching

38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog

The 3 Easiest Ways to Speed Up WordPress

18 Useful Tricks To Speed Up WordPress & Boost Performance

A lot of these are redundant but they all include thee own little twerps.  Have a good day everyone and if anyone else has any tips please dont hesitate to comment on them

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To say the least this is probably one of the best snippets of code Google has released yet. I ran a comparison on load speed and the pages on the test site that I put this code on is now running 13.2% faster that it was originally running.

Unfortunately a lot of people don’t even know what Google Asynchronous Analytics Tracking is, so let me give you a brief run down. Google Asynchronous Analytics Tracking is the new analytics code that Google has come out with, it is still in Beta (Along With Everything Else From Google) but available to the general public. Some of the features of Google Asynchronous Analytics Tracking are the following:

Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution
Enhanced data collection & accuracy
Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn’t fully loaded

One thing that is very cool about Google Asynchronous Analytics Tracking is the fact that you can pretty much out it anywhere on you page. I put mine in the <HEAD>

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(ga);
  })();

</script>

The one thing that has me baffled though is the fact that google hasn’t pushed this product harder, it is a major upgrade from GA.JS. Oh well, at least I got the word out to my readers. If you want more information on Google Asynchronous Analytics Tracking here are some pretty good resources:

Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking

Asynchronous Migration Examples

Asynchronous Tracking Install

Asynchronous Tracking Usage Guide

Make Google Analytics Load Faster With Asynchronous Tracking - by Patrick Altoft

Creating Virtual Pageviews with Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking -by Lorrin

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Okay so I lied I really hate spammers but to be quite honest I find it very comical when people leave spam messages on my blog like this one:

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I mean come on who in their right mind is actually gonna let this through as a comment on their blog? And for the people who auto approve comments they will surely see an eye sore like this one and instantly delete it.

A message for all of the spammers who are doing this “Get A Real Job” you guys suck. You are the people who help to bring down our industry and I wish I could find out who half of you people our so I can tie you down and tattoo douchebag across your heads. If you are going to spam at least make the comments useful. Ihave a couple of spammers who have hit my blog with meaningful comments and guess what, I let it through. I said to myself, at least they had the decency to write a good comment.

I am seriously gonna start trying to find out the companies that do this and one by one I am gonna start posting on how they are bad scam companies. I get like 50 spam messages a day and I have to go through everyone of them because unfortunately an innocent persons comment get caught in the filter every once in a while. Do you know what a pain in the ass that is. But most of the time while going through these comments I laugh to myself thinking what brainless idiots write these comments like the one I posted.

Well enough of my ramblings, What are your thoughts on this?

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I felt that I would share a cool little secret that a lot of e commerce advertisers have yet to utilize. Have you noticed lately that there are picture popping up next to products in Adwords? Well today I am gonna share how to do that with all my e-commerce readers. It is just a tiny bit complex but I feel that anyone can do it.

Here are the steps to take:

1) Go into your Google merchant center and click on the tab that says settings than click on the tab that says Adwords.

2) Enter in your Adwords account number (that is the number that you see in the top right hand corner of the screen when you are in your Adwords account)

3) Create a product specific Google Adwords account. Meaning a campaign that goes to product landing pages.

4) Go to your campaign settings for your product specific campaign and scroll down to Networks, devices, and extensions. Underneath that you will see an option to modify Ad Extensions.

5) Click on edit and then click on save. Thats it, you are all done.

I hope this helped out some e-commerce users who didn’t know that this option was available. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or contact me through the contact us form. Thanks

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Hey guys I am reaching out to all of my readers and people who stumble across this site, pleas make a donation to the people in Haiti. This is a disaster what has happened to them and just imagine if the shoe was on the other foot, we would want help. The website address is:

https://hopeforhaitinow.org/Default.asp

All ways you can donate:

Website: https://hopeforhaitinow.org/Default.asp
Text: Text Give to 50555
Call: 1-877-99-HAITI

They are taking donations and have been working very had to raise money for the people who have been injured in Haiti. This issue has really touched me and only we can make a difference. So if you have the money please donate, if you don’t please keep the folks of Haiti in your prayers. Thank you.

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