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5 Useful Excel Tips for SEO Noobs
When it comes to using Excel for SEO, whether you’re modifying a large list of URLs or updating a few thousand Title Tags there are a few essential Excel shortcuts that can dramatically increase your workflow. Mr. Miyagi once said, “You trust the quality of what you know, not quantity.” I like to apply this [...]
I’d Turn That! Configuring Your iPhone App To Accept Multiple UIInterfaceOrientations
When developing an iPhone or iPad app, the developer has quite a lot to think about: How will this app benefit my audience? How can I make it pretty enough to keep them interested? How can I write this app with the least amount of code possible? Does it need to be able to show [...]
How New Change to Google Adwords Keyword Match Type Effects Your PPC Campaigns
According to Google, 7% of the internet can’t spell. To cater to them, Google has decided to include an option in Adwords for advertisers to “Include plurals, misspellings, and other close variants” for exact and phrase match keywords. The other option being “Do not include close variants.“ Here’s where the option is in your account [...]
My Progress with Objective-C thus far
So here’s the deal. I’ve published one blog post about things I’ve learned about Objective-C but in reality, I wrote that post about two to three weeks ago. I would go on pretending that this next week’s post is actually what I learned in one week after that last post, but let’s face it – [...]
Quick iPhone Tip: Flash for Text Messages
When I am at work, I usually lay my iPhone on the desk, on top of a stack of papers. Getting messages used to be problematic, because with my headphones in, and me jamming to the best tunes on the planet, I would not hear the phone vibrate. iOS 5 has a cool little feature [...]
How to Set Up Directory Specific Bash (or other Shell) Environments
As I am an avid *nix (mostly Ubuntu and OSX) user, I’m constantly trying to improve my workflow in the terminal (I use the Bash shell) and my dotfiles. One recent development has been the use of directory specific environments. Before getting into that, let’s talk about what happens when your terminal fires up. Loading [...]
Leather and Lace
Sometimes when two, equally good things come together, the product sounds better in theory. Ketchup? Good. Ice cream? Good. Ice Ketchup Cream? Not so much. But other times, when two very different things come together, it’s beautiful. Granola and yogurt, for instance. Ozzy and Miss Piggy performing together on the Muppet Show, Sir Paul McCartney [...]
5 Tips For Launching A Quick PPC Promotion
Looking to launch a quick promotion using pay per click? Here are 5 tips that could make your PPC promotion more successful: 1. Have a well-structured account with organized campaigns and ad groups Want to create ads on the fly for a quick promotion? Having a well-structured campaign and ad group nomenclature will help immensely [...]
7 Things You Should Know Before Launching A Retargeting Campaign
First let’s start by explaining what exactly is retargeting. If you run an ecommerce, lead generation or any other type of website that requires some sort of conversion you most likely track every single visitor and metrics through your Analytics tool. By now you must have notice that the majority of people that visit your [...]
Where Apple Went Wrong With iOS
It seems that as I become more familiar with and gain a higher understanding of iOS I manage to find more and more parts of the Cocoa Touch framework that I disagree with the architecture of. As I realize these things I can’t help but find myself wanting to rewrite parts of Apple’s own framework. [...]
