Kyle Ritter

So I’m testing this intrinsic design theory that I have been working on. Curious to see the time it takes. Boring ass post, I know. It’s just damn experiment.

The interior design and decoration community ss sorely lacking in web presence and marketing, yet “Portland Interior Designer” is a much sought after service according to overture search suggestion tool. I realized this after looking around for some of the various talented local designers I had heard of. To this end, I am building a site dedicated to helping potential clients find interior designers in Portland.

My wonderful friend Carla just published a bunch of articles about each of the neighborhoods in the Portland Metro region. These are designed to help buyers relocating to the Portland area find the right area, whether it be in town in Laurelhurst, or in one of the Beaverton neighborhoods such as Cedar Hills. The mistake that so many real estate agents make with their web presence is not providing expert information on the area, thus further branding their names in the mind of the potential buyer. Always be closin’ damnit!

I’ve been heavily into the review type sites lately, especially after having run BarFly for the past year. So I’ve adde a few new ones to my quiver, and made a very topical change to BarFly.
Vineyard Reviews
Real Estate Agent Reviews
BarFly Bar Supply Store

It’s amazing what happens when you find orphaned pages. I had clean forgot about this page I made for a custom pentagon gable vent I made on TheBuilderStore.com

I was originally adding a landing page for an ad campaign I am running with ContractorTalk.com, and next thing you know, I find this old page. Sweet.

I’ve been looking at my friend’s site at NW Custom Creations. For some reason, certain pages are not getting crawled. These pages include his

• Rectangle Gable Vent
• Triangle Gable Vent
• Five sided Gable Vent
• and Right Triangle Gable Vent

At first I thought it was simply that spiders weren’t deep crawling, but then I discovered it was a 302 redirection problem…IE it was being totally ignored. So hopefully I have fixed that.

Remember the long-running e-mail hoax from the early days of the Web, the one that had Bill Gates testing an “e-mail tracing program” and offering to pay recipients big bucks if they passed his test e-mail along to all their friends?

Well, the offer is true, sort of. Microsoft Corp. wants you to use its MSN search engine, and it’s got $1 million worth of prizes up for grabs for those who nibble at the offer.

Full article here

Myself, I pretty much still use Google, and if that fails, Yahoo, then if that fails, MSN. Old habits are hard to break. Switching to Firefox as my main browser instead of IE was a trying task, I had to break myself of the habit of clicking on the IE icon.

Then again, you can surf all three at once.

I have been using Digital Point’s the co-op ad network for the past few monthes. I am readily impressed, it has helped exposure to my various websites in many different ways, and has greatly improved some of my search engine positioning.

So when I saw an ad appear on BarFly that simply said “McDonalds” I wondered who in the hell would be using such a generic brand name for an ad.

Maybe it’s time to digress for a moment and explain how Digital Point works. Basically, it creates static text links on member’s sites, and displays them at random across everypage through out the entire network of sites. The number of pages indexed by google factors into how much weight you are given. More weight=more displays= more chances for a search engine spider to find your link. And since search engine really really like anchor text, it makes it look like your site is really really about whatever phrase you are using in your anchor text.
One click told me all I needed to know. It took me to the Super Size Me website. So then I went to google and typed “McDonalds” which pulled up McDonalds corporate site in first place, and Super Size Me in second.
“Aha”, shouted inspector Kyle, “I am on to them. Following that old miserable failure technique.”

My good friend Carla Muss Jacobs recently started a real estate blog. I’ve worked with Carla for over a year now, and can verfiably say that she is one kick ass lady who knows the real estate biz.

She stands out amongst the hordes of real estate agents by declaring herself as “an exclusive buyer’s agent“. What this means is she will never represent sellers, only buyer’s of the property.

Additionally, she has been most helpful in helping people who are moving to Portland find homes. It is most certainly a scary proposition to be moving from a far away place, and placing your trust in an agent who you may only meet once or twice through the whole process. Carla has it dialed.

When it comes time for me to purchase some real estate here in Portland, you can guarantee that I’ll be trusting Carla’s expertise.

After a fruitful holiday season, I’m back into to overdrive work mode. I’ve been working on quite a few new little projects, including two for Flying Rhinoceros and I helped a friend do some optimization work for this Portland Condominium website.

The BarFly Directory has essentially been put on hold, I’ve been dealing with preventing comment spam on my BarFly Blog