
Joe Rinehart, SEO
Joe Rinehart, SEO
Joe Rinehart, SEO by the config.com company sign
This picture of me was taken in the Spring of 2007 after we purchased our Portage County office at 124 East Spruce Avenue, in Ravenna, OH after years of renting or leasing.
Joe Rinehart, SEO surfing the web on a lunch break in Ravenna, Ohio
We hooked Dee's restaurant in Ravenna, Ohio with broadband wireless in 2007. Unfortunately, the Restaurant went out of business the following Summer.
Joe working in his office.at 124 East Spruce Avenue in Ravenna Ohio
Joe working at the office in his Chinese new year shirt.
Joe in his favoriote bamboo shirt
Joe working at the office in his favorite Chinese bamboo shirt.
2008 Photo of Joe working at the office
A fresh haircut in 2008
Joe at the orffice wearing his Chinese shirt
Joe working hard in the office.
On the phone again!
On the phone again, oh Joe can't wait to get on the phone again... Willie Nelson should haven't written a song for Joe on the phone again.
Joe at work in the old Sycamore Street office
Joe's office was a fun place to work at 124 South Sycamore.
Joe at work in front of the network operations center
Joe in the Winter of 2005
Joe working in his old Sycamore Street office
Joe loved working in this office with a view from Dec 2001, through Nov. 2006.
Written by Joe Rinehart Monday, 28 June 2010 16:36
Yahoo never ceases to amaze me! They have a programming bug that when people hit their back button to go into their email, after they have logged out, it sends them to my company config.com website.
Today's jump in visitors so far at this writing represents a rise of 17,566.67% and still rising fast according to our Piwik stats and I sure wish they'd spend some money - LOL
This has been going on periodically for about a decade. Of course, we have to deal with the incoming telephone calls and email from people that don't understand why and how they end up on our site. All we can do it tell everyone that we are not in control of the Yahoo search engine site to fix the programming error causing this problem!
While I like to think I'm great at Search Engine Optimization (SEO), this is really pushing the envelope, well beyond my desire! It artificially inflates my visitors numbers and bounce rate goes through the roof!
Humm, maybe I should add some yahoo ads on my site or call an attorney to see what I can do about the harm this is causing. Yea, I know I should be happy... but frankly it is costing more server resources, telephone and email response time, and the dang bounce rate is killing us SEO wise!
Joe Rinehart, Founder and President
config.com, Inc.
Written by Joe Rinehart Sunday, 27 June 2010 13:38
The other day I received one of the best search engine optimization (SEO) questions ever! It came as no surprise that the question came from a traditional print magazine media publisher client, so I asked him if he'd mind if I used the question and answer for an article on my website.
Kevin Ireland, Publisher of http://www.InsiteGainesville.com and http://www.GainesvilleBizReport.com (both sites of which are using the Joomla content management system) which represent his Gainesville, Florida print media, asked:
Hey Joe, I'm trying to figure a way that I can make the online PDFs of my
magazines searchable by Google. By that I mean if someone plugs "inventor
John Smith" into Google, the PDF of my magazine that includes an article
with inventor John Smith will come up high in the returned results. We've
already saved all PDFs in searchable form, so someone who opens the
magazine can search for specific words but we can't figure a way to get
Google to drill down into the pages to identify specific key words. Do you
know of a method?
My emailed response which I reserve the right to edit for the benefit of everyone down the road:
PDF's are searchable by default these days and Google has got really good at it. However, if the PDF is created in Photshop as opposed to Adobe Pagemaker or MS Word, it'll be one big image and Google can't index the text within images. So Adobe. MS Word, or any text processor editor that'll convert to PDF is the only way to go. FYI, all the articles within Joomla have the ability to be converted to PDF, assuming your development company didn't turn the feature off.
The example you gave regarding a John Smith, is well, not the best example because, the last name Smith is one of the most common ;) However I'd suggest if someone typed John Smith in Gainesville, you'd have a shot.
The fastest method of getting Google to index your PDF's is to first have a sitemap and in Joomla I'd recommend Xmap. Then you'd go to webmaster tools using your Google account or one you have established for all the Google goodies and your site(s) and make sure it's registered.
Another thing to be aware of is that Google doesn't actually index every single word! There are what's known as stop words and here's a URL of the most common:
http://www.link-assistant.com/seo-stop-words.html
Written by Joe Rinehart Saturday, 26 June 2010 18:41
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