Author Archives: Ken Shafer

iPhone Battery Draining Quickly and Feels Warm

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Ken Shafer

This might be a tad off-topic but I was having some battery issues with my iPhone 4 recently. With a little research I was able to resolve my issues…for now. Here’s how I fixed it. Adjust Time Zone Auto-Set The first thing we need to do is tell the iPhone to stop trying to determine what time zone we’re in … Continue reading →

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Let’s do a little link research

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ken Shafer

I’m going to put this link right here. This is part of some research I’m conducting. Just a little personal research about indexation through social media channels, along side another experiment about nofollow links.

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Using rel=”prev” and “next” and Canonical Tags for Pagination

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Ken Shafer

I’ve been thinking a lot about pagination and how to navigate the rel=”next/prev” and canonical tags. I wrote a fairly detailed article about how I think rel=next, rel=prev and canonical tags should be implemented over on the Ironworks blog. I wanted to re-iterate some of the basic points that article attempts to address here in my own blog. Do not … Continue reading →

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MyPad vs. Friendly

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Ken Shafer

So I’m trying out MyPad as my Facebook client instead of Friendly for a while. Anyone out there have any preferences?

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Site Redesign is Nearing Completion!

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Ken Shafer

I’ve done most of the work getting the website looking all fresh and new. I’ll be adding more functionality on a regular basis to hopefully tighten a few things down. I know stuff looks a little janky right now…but I’m working on it.

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Keyword Segmenting in Google Analytics

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Ken Shafer

Hi all! Here’s a quick video I did for Apartments.com. I’m discussing how view your website’s success at attracting traffic for entire groups of keywords or phrases. Enjoy and please let me know if there are any topics you’d like to see me tackle in the future.

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Be The Search Engine

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Ken Shafer

Often times the best way to diagnose an SEO-related problem with your site is view the site as a search engine would see it. Today I’m going give you a few tips that will help you do just that. Shall we? Step 1 – Download the Firefox browser, if you haven’t already I can’t begin to tell you all the … Continue reading →

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Pubcon 2011 Monday

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Ken Shafer

I’m gonna try to take event notes here and then expand later. Enjoy 8:24 – just finished stale bagel 8:29 – ok. So I’m in the Master Group Training, SEO Track. This is a big reason why I came. First slides I see in the booklet? Title and meta tags…uh oh. 8:40 – I am overdressed 8:54 – intro to … Continue reading →

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