Orange County Web Design By Dave Keys Dave Keys 888-216-1231

I'm telling you the folks smell blood. They're suspicious and they're not banking on any good news yet. You can always tell by what people do and don't do, just what they really believe.

2012 must be ready to rock the planet just like the blockbuster movie depicts.

The folks, they're going to see it in droves. Something resonates.

The King of Pop is dead.

Elvis has left the building and he's not coming back.

The world is ending in 2012. Why else would people act like this?

I live in a new development. I lost my shirt on this house and sold the one with equity in 2007 just to get under something I could maybe, just maybe still keep.

So far, so good. Hanging on by a thread but I'm still standing- today.

I know it wouldn't take much for my situation to get uglier and have to move on to apartment land. Nevertheless, I keep my place as nice as I can. I live here and I want to enjoy my time off and be a good neighbor too.

My House- yes it's enormous, yes it's underwater. Yes I ended up here by necessity- living in my investment. But I like it here and keep it up. I could be here for a while. A long while.

My neighbors who never mow their yard are moving.

My neighbors who stopped mowing their yard moved. Even though it's "mostly dead", I mowed it today. I got tired of looking at the scraggly un-mowed mess.

My other neighbors who stopped mowing their yard moved. (yes I mowed that one a few months back too- same reason)

My neighbors who moved in stopped mowing their yard. (and the green side is mine)

I'm convinced. People believe the world is ending by 2012 - both the people who live here, and the people who are selling the houses around me. Why else would they behave like this?

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I mentioned in a recent comment that I had friends from Berlin who visit the US and us every year, still celebrating their new freedom. Most of a younger generation have no memory of a time when the city of Berlin was divided. Only their parents do.

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Checkpoint Charlie

I finally did it. I placed my primary domain on Wordpress. It's simply been my experience that Wordpress handles SEO better than anything else other than the most carefully crafted and SEO tuned website, and then some. Why? Because, let's face it. Google loves Wordpress- really loves it. Sittin' in a tree, k i s s i n g loves it. Ultimately I think, because Wordpress is a platform that is usually associated with fresh content and your static page is not. If you need your static page to be on the web (like if you have integrated custom IDX into it) then supplement it with a Wordpress site or subdomain. No, not Wordpress.com oh no, you need plugins like Google XML sitemaps and All In One SEO Pack and other handy features that you can't get on free Wordpress.com.

So if you don't have it, then get it. Find any hosting company (I recommend and receive a referral fee from Bluehost which is excellent) that includes Wordpress and buy a $10 domain (Bluehost gives you a free domain on signup) and set up a Wordpress blog and see if it doesn't actually give your static site a big boost.

So my new DaveKeys.com website doesn't look nearly as nice as my old Dave Keys site but it's already been indexed and updated by Google (in about 2 hours from launch) and I expect it will perform better as I contribute to it. I also followed my own advice (and Bart's) and removed the social network links. They'll end up on another page. My site should end up back on first page.

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I built a website on the Wordpress for a client but then, I didn't remember to "enable" a plugin, All In One SEO Pack, in its settings. Usually, you simply Activate a plugin in Wordpress and away you go... Not so with All-in-one-SEO-pack. It has its own secondary switch in its settings panel. If you don't click to "enable" this plugin here, it has the same result as creating a "noindex" order for Google. If you don't know what that is, it means when the Google Bot comes along and reads your site, it reads a file (sometimes virtually created by software like Wordpress and the All In One SEO Pack) called robots.txt which contains the instructions for what Google should index and what it should ignore (like a contact form page).

Of course, having made the new site ready, I went straight to Google's Webmaster Tools, verified the site and submitted its sitemaps. Google was nice enough to go to the site within a very short time and then recorded the result in my Webmaster Tools panel, "Restricted by Robots.txt."

I'm still waiting for the damage to be undone. Google reports the last sweep where it picked up the noindex order that it's still following like a new cult inductee, was November 5.

Dear Google, I'm still waiting for you to re-read and index!

Sigh... Don't make this mistake, folks. If you use Wordpress and choose to use All in One SEO Pack (which works very well, btw) be sure to select "enabled" in the settings before you get visited by the ever fickle Googlebot!

Yorba Linda Homes (yep that's my client site)

Many people know that there is no better SEO friendly blogging platform than Wordpress but No matter how good a new Wordpress blog is, it won't likely get indexed if the sitemap is restricted by robots.txt! I meandered by Google Webmaster Tools to check on a client's indexing progress, then decided to check the status of the sitemap where I saw a dreaded red X! and the message "restricted by robots.txt" meaning Google wasn't allowed to look at my sitemap, and perhaps not the entire website. Robots.txt is a file that asks that some content such as contact forms or other pages intended to serve as modules on main pages not be indexed by Google. It is also a choice in Wordpress to block the entire site. It's important to use this feature when building a new site so that Google doesn't come along before you're ready and index "Hello World!" as the primary keywords of your site.

I'm not saying when or who but I once knew of a website that got indexed during the build phase and for a month, the phone number was displayed in Google search results as 000-000-0000! Not good, so keeping Google at bay is a good option under certain circumstances.

On the other hand, it doesn't pay to be asleep at the switch like I was, waiting for Google to finally do it's thing while I hadn't done mine.

For those who use Wordpress.

In the Dashboard:

1. Choose Privace under the Settings menu tab.

2. Choose your option. This sets up robots.txt to open or close the gateway to search engines.