So, its crazy. Everyone has spoken about Google’s new algorithm that is coming some time in the near future. Well, if you search without anything in the box, it shows the countdown in seconds so if you do the math it should be available January 1, 2010. Crazy, right? This means a whirlwind change to SEO.
This is an awesome story full of metaphors and great explanation.
Living in the Moment
The part of the interpretation that got me was
The two rats represent the passage of time. They are black and white in color for the simple reason that they symbolize day and night.
The rats gnaw on the vine, making it weaker and weaker. This represents how each cycle of day and night brings us a little closer to death. When the vine breaks, the man plummets toward certain doom. In the same way, when a sufficient number of days and nights have passed, the physical life we cling to will be broken, and it will be time for the ultimate finality of death. We will have no choice but to confront the tiger.
and also this part:
The story offers a clue. When the man saw the strawberry, he held onto the vine with one hand and reached out with the other. This action incorporates two essential elements: letting go and reaching out.
The man could not pluck the strawberry if he insisted on holding on with both hands. With both hands gripping the vine tightly, all he could do would be to stare at it. In order to get the prize, he needed to relax one hand and detach it from the vine.
It is exactly the same with life. The vine represents our physical existence on this material plane. Holding on to it tightly is equivalent to having strong attachments to material concerns. With such attachments, you cannot let go. This is a sure-fire way to prevent you from enjoying the present.
This is the most significant thing I believe we can work for in life. This site has been about ways to get ahead by unconventional thinking. It has been very goal orientated. The are a lot of very happy goal orientated people and a lot of very unhappy goal orientated people. The latter are individuals that most would consider to be very successful. However, if you are a billionaire that is unhappy you can’t be considered successful.
It is commonly stated that “they can’t enjoy what they already have”. This is definitely true but not for the reasons that implies. It implies that they are greedy and can’t get enough of what they already seem to have a lot of. The truth is that these people are seeking validation from whatever it is they are pursuing (money, power, women, etc). These people are dependent on the outcome of validation to feel good emotionally.
The main problem is that when people become outcome dependent, they do not live in the moment. There is too much significance placed upon whether or not the goal is achieved. When you care too much it makes you needy. Neediness = unhappiness. It is okay to want but not too much where you let it affect you emotions.
When you are not living in the moment, you are living in the future or past. You are agonizing over something that has happened that has made you sad or angry or are anxious or excited about something in the future. You are definitely missing what is going on in the moment. This has definitely been my case.
When you live in the moment and are outcome independent things that are positive and negative can happen all around you but your emotional state isn’t affected. It is only changed when you decide you want it to. You can’t control your environment but you can control how you react to it. When you are reacting really strongly to it, it means you really need it to be one way or the other. You can still enjoy and feel but not be overtaken by events in life.
I read a post last Friday that really gave me another angle on this. Not only is it important to be outcome independent to avoid the side effects of situations that go negatively but it is also critical to do so when things are going well. Over-celebration is also very outcome dependent. It would be inconsistent to only be outcome independent in response to negative events.
http://bigsendworld.com/blog/outcome-independence-neediness-and-our-mindset
Think of Buddhist monks, they always appear to be content. They experience life and seem to do it in a very even keel type of manner.
This post is for me to abstract what I am learning and to make others aware of how this is the most important thing in life. It is the cornerstone of happiness. I have had huge dependence on outcomes. When something hasn’t gone as I anticipated or in a way that I had worked toward, I felt like a failure and it would take awhile to get back to normal. I also have over-celebrated events in life and then that has set expectations really high for the future.
It all comes back to living in the moment. I think the first thing is recognizing when you are having outcome dependence. Next, it is figuring out how to remove it and how to live in the moment. I look forward to exploring these techniques in the near future as well as the benefits of living in the moment without expectations!
Comments, suggestions and techniques are welcomed!
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Example:
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A new site I am working on recently got hosed by google in its serp (search engine rank page). It took me a while to figure it out but I think it was due to one of two issues. Either affiliate links or links to web directories. I am leaning towards the latter. I removed both and rank jumped back. Any comments here?
There is some interesting work here. A lot of it is very graphic, some oil and acrylic produced by hand and with silkscreens. wish koos.
This is key, you are dumb not to do it. When a spider finally hits your site, it asks for the robots.txt file as we all know. This is where we can tell it to not look at certain pages, etc. Well we can also tell it the location of our sitemap file. Include a line like:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
This will help engines find more of your pages.
This site talks about submitting to google, yahoo, msn/live and ask. It has some backdoors outlined as well. http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Submit-Your-Site-Map-to-Google,-Yahoo!-and-MSN&id=660037
My buddy is a system engineer and I did tech support during college. Here are a few new ones that he actually received:
Problem 1: Everytime I move my mouse and want to choose something, I have to click the button. Is there anything we can do to make sure I don’t have to click my mouse when choosing stuff? Sometimes I click the wrong things and if the mouse would just click it automatically that would be great.
Problem 2: WHEN WE MISDIAL THE VERIFICATION NUMBER ie 9-8XX-XXXX….. SHE RECIEVES THE CALL BECAUSE THE STORES AREN”T DAILING 9-1 8XX-XXX-XXX. IS THERE ANY THING WE CAN DO TO FIX THIS PROBLEM BESIDES MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE DAILS 9 1 8XX ETC. THANKS
It is hard to miss tech support!
As a part of my new SEO Addiction, I am working on a database site in php. I do not want the pages to show up like http://www.somewebsite.org/index.php?parameter=7. I want them to show up like http://www.somewebsite.org/meaning_full_name.html. This makes them look static and is better for search engine ranking.
It took me forever to get this working and it is a relatively easy task. There are tons of tutorials on the web to figure out how to get the right regular expression going for your site design but there is one piece that was buried!
First, the normal part is that you have to have mod_rewrite enabled/installed and make sure it is not commented out in httpd.conf. Next you create a .htaccess file in the folder of the site you are working like:
*******************************************************************
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^books/([0-9]+)\.html$ index.php?parameter=$1
******************************************************************
The secret for me to get this to work was to also modify a line in httpd.conf and restart apache. This line is:
AllowOverride All
I am the only one on this server so I put it under the <Directory></Directory> but it can be under virtual hosts as well. Restart apache after this. If you get stuck, this may be the trick you need!
I was working on some templates tonight and while testing and messing with keywords, I discovered that AdSense is meta tags to determine ad content. Initially for a site I had the ads were totally unrelated but with time they got better. Well, it turns out this was due to more and better keywords. FYI for your future SEO.
SEO Addiction - You (and I) want to build a site that has lots of traffic so we can make money off of ads in one way or another or sell our stuff or? One way to do this is to get a high search engine ranking (serp) for a set of keywords related to our content. What are keywords? They are are words inside of your web page that describe the content of your site, they are meta data because they are data that describes data. The keywords for this post include “what are keywords”, “keyword tool” and “meta tags”. You want to score high in the search engines for terms that people are searching for. Well, you know what your content is about, generally, so you need help finding exact terms. Look for long tail keywords (keywords with 3 or more words) that people are searching for using a tool. The best I have found so far is tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook.
Now that I am a full blown SEO addict. I perpetually check my search engine ranking page or SERP. The definition of serp is the ranking in a search engine that your site receives for a particular keyword. I have tried about 50 different ones and the best I have found so far is called Serp Checker and can be found here.
I am breaking in and trying keyword sniping to see if I can make some money
with affiliate marketing and/or adsense. I have some ideas on this now
and I have a friend running a business that is local in nature but he wants
to grab some Internet traffic. Here is the initial strategy I gave him. He
is interested in selling wine cellars.
Get 10 articles written of 300-500 words from one of the online guru sites,
I am using ODESK currently. First, find keywords that will
draw in the people that would want your product.
Use http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ for keyword ideas and
make sure that the wordtracker score for the keyword is greater than 200.
Also, try and choose long tail keywords that have 3-5 words in them. Ex
“California Organic Farm” as opposed to “Organic Farm”.
Now take the keywords you have found and search google and put the the
full keyword in double quotes “California Organic Farm”. You want google
to have less than 10,000 results. Find 10 keywords that pass this
test.
Next have your person that you interviewed, reviewed past work and hire
them to write the articles. Give them an outline for the articles. Maybe
7-8 ideas to throw in it and have them throw your keyword into it about
3-5 times. So 10 keywords = 10 articles. They can use the net for
research but no direct copying!
Pay them $3-5 per article. Do this as a one shot deal, not per hour.
This will put you back $50. Now take another $50 and put it towards
submission services. This part is more vague. These 10 articles needs to
be submitted to article directories and your site needs to be submitted to
website directories. I am happy to help you do all of this as I have an
interest in understanding what works and what doesn’t.
Start by finding your 10 keywords.
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