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Portable Autonomous Sentry Demonstration

Brilliant!

I spotted this question over at the Linked In Q/A boards. The entire question is as follows:

 
How do I select a web designer that also understands SEO?

I own a service company and I need my web sited resigned. What things should I be looking for? Some of my many questions are: 

Of the many technologies –Java, Flash, etc. what is most appealing to the eye and the search engines? How do most web designers handle web site updates? What price range should I expect for a basic brochure? How important is video and audio advertising? How do I select a web designer that also understands SEO?

- Chuck Rylant, MBA, CRTP

Aesthetic appeal is subjective, but the message you are sending with your website should be a fully conscious, coordinated effort.

In terms of building for search, think of your website as two parts of a whole. The first part is for the search user. What are they looking for? What makes sense for them to find? How will the rest of your website contribute to what a search user sees first? How can you impact them most effectively if given only a few moments of their time?

The second part is for the customer. What will they see? Where will they go? What are they supposed to do now that they’ve found your website?

Clean coding and strait forward presentation are always a best bet. Revolutionary effects in bleeding edge technologies have their place but guess what, simple carts and predictable navigation convert!

As with any contract work, qualify an agency by comparing their proposal with the proposals of their peers. Ask for examples of their rankings in competitive queries and ask for their expectations of your placement. Chances are they will have a pretty good idea right off the bat. Be wary of automated SEO software or ‘first place’ guarantees as they are the unicorns of our industry.

iiiiiiiiiiiinteresting, something chic, flirty, and makes you feel like you aren’t being talked down to are solid elements for viral gold. NICE ForD!

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So I’ve been working on some pretty exciting projects and as a result have neglected the blog a bit. My apologies! I’m afraid I can’t go into the details here but in any event, expect more…..AND SOON!

Richard Baraniuk is founder of Connexions, a free, open-source, global clearinghouse of course materials. People in some 200 countries tap into its vast store of texts on everything from engineering to ornithology to music, adapting the content as they see fit.

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A controversial case study mapping the response to a faux sexual advertisement on Craigslist indicates a largely one sided response from men. What is interesting about this trend, besides that the data suggests a nationwide similarity in the male expectation of casual solicitation requests, is the utter disregard for common sense exercised regarding private information. Demographic lesson: if you dangle a carrot, the rabbit comes out of its hole.

Premise: I was surfing through the job listings at Craigslist, and inevitably wandered my way into the personals section, and became instantly fascinated with all the posts. I eventually made my way into the “Sex with no strings attached” section, and immediately wondered: Could this be real? Is it really this easy to get laid by simply logging in and making a post, when so many other people out there have to struggle to get laid the normal way? It didn’t take long to realize that for every female who posted, there were anywhere from ten to twenty males posting, and several of the posts mentioned that half the girls who posted were just spammers, which led me to believe that the ratio was even greater than that. So with this curiosity in mind, I set out to find out how hard it was to get laid using Craigslist, or rather, how many people actually responded to the “No strings attached” ads.

Methods of experimentation: I picked three cities: New York, Chicago, and Houston, and posted ads to each city, using different email addresses for each ad. For each city I posted four ads: One pretending to be a straight female looking for sex with a male, another one as a straight male looking for sex with a female, another as a bicurious male looking for sex with another male, and one as a bisexual female looking for sex with another female. I said basically the same thing in each ad and didn’t include a pic or much personal information, except that I had just moved into the city. I then sat back and let the emails build up in the inbox, and then went through every single one to assess the results, which are as follows.

Results: Here are the stats on how many people responded to each person.

New York:

Straight female looking to have sex with a male: 165 responses

Straight male looking to have sex with a female: 0 responses

Bi-curious male looking to have sex with a male: 9 responses

Bisexual female looking to have sex with a female: 2 responses

Chicago:

Straight female looking to have sex with a male: 200 responses

Straight male looking to have sex with a female: 0 responses

Bi-curious male looking to have sex with a male: 6 responses

Bisexual female looking to have sex with a female: 2 responses

Houston:

Straight female looking to have sex with a male: 54 responses

Straight male looking to have sex with a female: 1 response

Bi-curious male looking to have sex with a male: 10 responses

Bisexual female looking to have sex with a female: 1 response

Your chances of getting laid through Craigslist: A Bloggasm case study