(Note: This diet only works for men, because I’m told that men lose weight so unfairly easily. I have no idea what it takes for a woman to lose weight. Sorry!)
The problem was the smaller belt. I’d bought it about a year ago after losing 30 pounds, and was happy to have a 34″ instead of a 36″ belt. In my new “skinny” waist size, the end of the belt tucked nicely into the belt loop to the left of the buckle and all was well.
Then I started eating like in the old days. And before I knew it, some pants seemed to require me to use the next “larger” (i.e. “fatter”) belt hole. This caused the end of the belt to no longer quite reach the belt loop, so it flapped around like a constant reminder that Fried Food Makes You Fat. The straw that broke this camel’s back was when my scale had a highly offensive number on it one morning after eating way too much the night before.
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There are thousands of people who were really impacted by the Joplin tornadoes. I’m not one of them. To help them, the Red Cross is a great option. They like cash and blood and we all have more of both than we really need!
Cousin Dave warned us we might run into weather.
Ben (10) and Elizabeth (7) were sitting in the back of the ol’ minivan, headed home from Granny’s house in Oklahoma. They were occupied with tormenting each other, playing Minecraft, reading books, all that stuff. As we drove along I-44 into Missouri, it was clear we’d have some serious rain ahead, so I took a peek on the i-Phone. Indeed it was quite a storm system.
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This is an update to my previous article about LDA Optimization. The process is now a lot easier with an update to the optimizer tool! Many thanks to Virante and SEOmoz for ideas, support, and inspiration!
Step 1: Identify your Keyword
First up, figure out what keyword you want to improve your page’s rank for. For this test, I’m using the phrase “basketball drills”. I just chose this at random and hoped I’d be able to find a good example site in it. See how that worked out below!
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(There’s an updated version of this article as of 12/19/2010.)
If you have a page about “basketball drills”, shouldn’t it include these words?
What if it didn’t? How would you find that out quickly?
SEOmoz recently announced (and then corrected the stats for) a new tool in their labs called the “LDA Tool“. The tool basically takes a search phrase and a page and tells you how much they relate topically.
Unfortunately, it’s not very clear from that report what topics it identifies or what you can do to improve your page’s score. In this post I’ll show you how to just that, and and give you a new LDA Optimization Tool I wrote to make it easy.
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Most of the sites I work on these days are on the small end of the scale, but a few are large news portals. One of them went through a site redesign a few months ago (before I got involved), and they’ve seen a large dropoff in traffic. I’m starting to look into why that happened, and wanted to share some ideas about how to fix the problem.
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The fine folks over at SEOmoz provide Pro members with the ability do neat link analysis of web sites and download a CSV of the raw data. Will Critchlow posted over there recently about Advanced Link Analysis Charts to analyze SEOmoz data through their API and a bunch of spiffy Excel graphs. I’m more of a PHP guy, so I put together some very raw beginning code to read in the Linkscape CSV and show pretty pictures using Google Chart.
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I’ve been emailing with some new coaches, and thought this info might be helpful for planning. I’ve included last year’s and this year’s budgets, and some ideas for how to get the best sets of equipment the cheapest.
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Hey, just checking in with my fellow JrFLL coaches! Our team is starting practice next week, and we have a second 3rd grade team starting at Valley Park Elementary. We’re using WeDo components this year, and planning to move up to NXT and FLL next year.
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I’ve got a client with a large number of SVG images of products. The format works really well in a lot of ways, because the images are scalable and look great at any resolution. As usual, Internet Explorer is a thorn in our sides. Today, it’s because IE doesn’t support PNG. Sheesh.
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Google announced a new Tab for the AdWords interface entering beta for some U.S. English customers soon. They’re calling it the “Opportunities” tab, but in Google-speak, that means, “Ways you can give Google more money.” Let’s take a look at the available details and ideas that would truly benefit advertisers:
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