If you’re in the market for a job (in a larger metropolis area) here’s a breakdown of the cities that you should and should not be searching for right now.
I knew Detroit was bad but I didn’t know it was almost double the next city on the list. On the other hand, there are jobs to be had in D.C., but not sure if those are the kind of jobs that require you to have 2 or 3 at the same time just to cover the cost of living.
This could become a trend.
Don’t have a clue what this is about but I’ll bet a dollar that you can’t keep from cracking a smile while watching.
I’ve started a folder in my bookmarks for random stuff I find across the interwebs. It’s a cross between probably some of the most useless stuff around and a mental drafts folder for me.
The following three images made it in the folder in the last couple of weeks.
I don’t drink Cokes anymore, but I can vividly remember wishing death upon any person who served me a diet drink when I used to be on the sauce. I can relate to this author.
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I’m a huge fan of people who do what they do with a passion. Whether it’s designing furniture or fixing a foundation, I enjoy finding out about your job and what you do especially when you really love to do it.
Rick Bishop almost makes me want to expand my garden. (~8 minutes)
(via Serious Eats)
In many ways, I view Search Engine Optimization and its “experts” as modern day snake oil and snake oil salesman, respectively. There are far too many people out there that express that they are experts that end up duping gullible clients into thinking that they will score the world for them.
Clients should know that there are practical steps that can be taken to potentially help their site rank better but there aren’t any guarantees and should never be signed up for if guarantees are offered. There are practical things that can be done to make your site look its best for search engines and users alike but they aren’t anything that a client couldn’t research and/or do themselves. I offer my clients the service of SEO but never at a price that many “experts” claim to get and never any guarantees of positioning.
My services include: helping to draft quality content, searching and targeting good keywords, educating the client on the positive aspects of quality inbound/outbound links and helping them to understand how to use social media for positive results and not just wasting time or spamming potential clients.
Other than that, there’s not too much more that Google or any other search engine cares to see. There as open about it as they can be without giving too much away for people to figure out ways to scam them into high rankings.
Which leads me to this, a nice little infographic from SEOmoz today portraying most of what I already thought and outlined above. This SEO oil is a cure all.
