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The way a lot of people talk, I would think SEO should be called GSO, for Google Search Optimization.  Most people consider it the be-all, end-all of search engines. Which I can understand, as they the biggest internet company around right now.  But looking at my analytics (and you can see it for yourself on [...]

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Direct Ad Sales on Your Blog (Lost Art Of Blogging) - Great article about selling ads on your blog directly, instead of using affiliate deals [...]

When I mention to people that I work in web development/design, A common conversation comes up. People tell me they have a cool idea for a website, and it becomes apparent that they really have no idea what it takes to start a website. This is the way people think websites work:

In this post, I mentioned that I knew their were a lot of flaws with Athens Bar Hopper, mainly that I had no freakin’ clue what I was doing when I started.  So I wanted to take an honest look at what went wrong, what went right, and talk a bit about my plans for [...]

The world of Search Engine Optimization is about to change, hopefully for the better. Google is working on making a lot of changes to how it ranks web sites, and will be making more open annoucements in the coming months. So, here is what you need to be focusing on, and you need to [...]

The main thing that made me want to move my site over to Wordpress was all the different plug-ins you can install. I’ve got a number of them running now, and I wanted to give you all a little insight into the ones I’m using, how they work, and what they do.

(Originally Posted January 11, 2008)
I’ve just started a 2nd job, and the new semester of school just started, so my blog posts here aren’t going to be as frequent as they once were. hopefully I’ll be able to still make a few posts a week. SO here is what’s been going on lately.

(posted January 1, 2008)
First off, Happy New Year everybody! I am having some weird issues with the main site, but this place should actually have a real URL (www.glennstovall.com) by tomorrrow. While I’m waiting on that to process, I’ve been playing around with a few other things:

(Originally Posted on December 28, 2007)
Welcome to the new blog! This one will probably be only temporary, as I want everything on my homepage to be things I’ve coded from scratch. I’m having a little trouble with mySQL at the moment, so I’m just going to do my blogging here for now. This is the [...]

(Originally Posted September 26, 2007)
Athensbarhopper.com so far makes up all of my adsense revenue, because I’ve put more work into it that my other sites so far. It still is not quite getting the traffic it could though, and that’s what I wanted to talk about today.
Since this is a locally based website about [...]