Edward Rosenthal

Edward worked at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the hills of Berkeley Ca in the 70's, where and when the internet backbone was being developed (DARPA). He worked in operations and then as a consultant with scientists and researchers in the consulting office. He debugged their programs and jobs. He also worked in the business department for several years programming in Fortran, Cobol, Real CICS, pascal, C, C++ and Oracle and Informix 4gl's and all the Unix shell languages and the lab's Vaxen and Unices and the connection to the Cray. He worked at various corporations in San Francisco as a freelancer for 12 years. Higher Source Web Sites started developing web sites in 2001, while in the real estate business. He started blogging and developing sites for his colleagues and his company, then other Real Estate companies. His background in business programming, database administration, & software development made staying within the soft technologies more appealing than other choices. He lives in Corvallis Oregon with his wife Pam and several doggies.

Business Citation Strategy for Localization in SEO

Lately I have been incorporating more localization into my efforts for clients. What are some of the best practices for that and what exactly is localization anyway and why bother? What are the benefits of localization and who wants or needs the effort involved? And what does it cost? I will try to answer some […]

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11 Reasons why your web site isn’t getting traffic

Overachieving graphics – By this I mean you want the pretty pictures but are not willing to write text to go along with it. Yes they will look at the picture, but unless you are cousin to a google engineer, the graphic alone won’t bring in visitors. Unless of course you are images.google.com Poor copy

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Depersonalize Search – a quicker way

My last post about how to depersonalize search might have been too hard for the weary computer user, so here is a much quicker ( and efficient ) method. If you are using Firefox there is a plugin that you can install that does a great job – just point your browser to http://yoast.com/tools/seo/disable-personalized-search-plugin/ and

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Maintenance Agreements & SEO

After you create your design and implement your web site construction either with or without designers and art directors, what then? Do you expect people will come because you build it? Remember that movie (Field of Dreams) was categorized as a fantasy? Lately I have been thinking of a good way to continually work for

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