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Fun Illustrator Fun

Author kimberlyh | 05.08.2008 | Category Designs

I have a habit of trying a new thing concerning graphics, and doing it over and over again for a little while - and then forget that it completely exists and do other things instead.

Lately it’s been Illustrator blends. I’ve found that it’s so much fun to create two vector curves with the pen tool, then go to object -> blend -> make and make it into a ton of really pretty lines. And today, I experimented and went to blend options -> specific steps, and added 300 lines, with one line a dark color and the other line a lighter color. This makes it look like a gradient - it’s definitely a really cool trick!

Everyone’s trying to take everyone over

Author kimberlyh | 05.08.2008 | Category SEO

So, I’m sure many people have read or at least heard about Microsoft trying to take over Yahoo!, but now even more interesting is that MS and Yahoo! are attempting to now take over AOL.

According to Ars Technica, Yahoo! it seems wants the internet portal; so, basically, we’d have a Yahoo! internet service, from what I gather - not just email, but more places for users to place ads. Microsoft, on the other hand, wants a search function. Right now AOL uses Google for its search, but of course if it mergers into either of these companies, that would be dropped for either Live Search (Microsoft) or Yahoo!’s search engine.

The major difference between these two offers seems to be that Microsoft wants to buy it outright, while Yahoo! just wants to combine (thus giving Time Warner a share in the combined company). At least, that’s what I gather about it.

I don’t think that this will really affect SEO in any kind of way unlike what a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! would, but it is kind of interesting to watch the big guys duke it out.

Content Writing

Author kimberlyh | 05.08.2008 | Category SEO

There are times when I wonder how a person can sit and write all day. Now, I love to write; writing introduced me to art, which got me into design in the first place (and led to my general computer geekry). However, right now I am writing content for a online affiliate opportunity website and am finding it very difficult. As creative as I try to be, it is very difficult to not be redundant with 47 keywords and approximately 18 pages of content to write up (darn you, content calculator!)

Either way, it’s coming along. I am approximately halfway done. Nonetheless… This is one part of SEO that I admittedly find the least enjoyable. The rest of it is fine with me, but it can be difficult at times to make words appear about how people can make great money all from the comfort of their living room sofa.

Ah, well. What must be done must be done; the paragraphs are slowly flying by as I chip away at this rather large amount of keywords.

I hate pink

Author kimberlyh | 05.08.2008 | Category SEO

And right now I’m hating the large stack of pink folders.

GoDaddy’s whois is showing 3 of them being on Dreamhost. The issue with that is that so many people could be on Dreamhost that there could be the possibility the domain name is taken, and hosted on Dreamhost. Le sigh. Another one doesn’t show any registry information at all under Whois, yet is taken. Joy.

I think so far I have gotten one licensed <a href=”http://hugeincomeinweeks.com”>home based business</a> site done - the first one I worked on. Waiting for another to propagate from Dreamhost. Either way, the stack of null domains is slowly growing.

An Excellent Article on Content Writing

Author samram | 05.08.2008 | Category SEO

One of our own guys, the big DC, found a very good article on SEO writing.  I was already using a lot of these techniques without even realizing it, and I’ve been producing some excellent rankings and results from doing the very same things this article suggests.

Check it out.  You might learn something new, or just reacquire lost knowledge.