Archive for October, 2007

Benefit of running an online business #32

Good Magazine has a spread on world retailers who operate the most square footage across their stores. Some of the companies that made the list (like Walmart and McDonalds) are not suprising to see at all. Here’s the image (click to enlarge): A few things I DID find suprising: Some of the others on the [...]


Top 10 ways to create a 301 redirect

Tonight I redirected a new domain my brother-in-law purchased back to his main site. He and his wife are chiropractors in Ottawa (just setup, may 401 till it’s propogated!) and the new domain is a little shorter and easier to type in than their full domain name (PrestonFamilyChiropractic.ca). So I thought I would take the [...]


Thought of the day

Hello everyone!
I’ve been out of town a lot recently (with the day job) as well as launching a new blog (MichaelValiant.com – warning, not food related at all!) so I apologize for not being around here much.
Thanks for the comments (that took me forever to moderate)!
I will re-kick things off with a thought for the [...]


The Ultimate WordPress Plugin List

While I’ve always believed in working hard once I’ve set my mind to something, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year or two trying to teach myself how to work SMARTER as well. One of the ways I try to do this is by automating my daily life as much as possible. [...]


Future of the Press Release

My mini-holiday is quickly coming to an end (will be back in the office on monday) and I’m trying to get my brain back in the game tonight by catching up on some RSS reading (shhh. Don’t tell my wife!) Unfortunately, typical to my partially type-A personality, my light reading quickly became heavy research on [...]


Blogging / SEO tip of the day…

I have a quick Blogging/SEO tip for today: I finally figured out what went wrong with my template. Thanks for all the suggestions, but it looks like it was my own error in the end (not that I thought it was going to be anything else!) A snippet of code I put in to prevent [...]