Internet

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Who does online news results better, Microsoft’s Bing or Google News? Of the two, who indexes more articles? Who’s delivering the most current and relevant content? Who’s providing the best user experience? Branded as a “decision engine”, Microsoft’s new Bing.com is seeking to grab market share from Google, in the battle…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. This is a non-chiropractor related post, so excuse me for a few moments while I cover something webmasters may be doing some searches on. I was checking the stats for planetchiropractic.com earlier today, and I noticed an HTML file (rpc_relay.html) appearing in the list of popular URLs for the site. I…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Add another project to the to do Whiteboard list, chiropracticmedia.com is now owned and operated by Planet Chiropractic. I’ve been thinking about a domain that would fit well for delivering chiropractic video’s, chiropractic audio, and chiropractic photos, and the term media popped up a few times. Turns out the previous owner…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Chiropractors are expected to keep tabs on how many new patients their offices get each week, how many total visits the office had for the week, what were over-the-counter cash collections, etc. Keeping logs is extremely important for any business, and paying attention to what’s going on with your chiropractic website,…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. To the search keyphrases for the month of November 2008, are the craziest I’ve seen on the planetchiropractic.com web site, in the past 10 years. It’s amazing how different search results can be from month-to-month. A month ago today the October results showed people were reaching the website primarily with searches…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. While attending SMX Advanced in Seattle last week I listened to a presentation by Hamlet Batista who suggested that White Hat methods of cloaking could be beneficial for my website (at least that’s how I interpreted it). I liked Hamlet, and I think he was well intended in his presentation. Listening…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Tonight, Google launched their new social application called Friend Connect. According to the information page (only launched within the past hour) “Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Taking a look at some of my notes here at the end of day one of Barcamp 3 in San Diego. We are in the Microsoft offices in La Jolla and the halls are full of sounds from people Wii bowling and playing Halo on Xbox 360 units. Rather odd being…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I received a notice today from a corporation listing service that was reminding me to renew my domain name (in this case it was rssware.com – forgot I even owned it). If you own a domain name you’ve probably received a letter similar to the one I received today. It looks…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Are NFL cheerleaders helping chiropractors raise money for research? I stumbled across an interesting eBay auction today (link below) for an Autographed Cheerleader Calendar (Washington Redskins) which is apparently listed in order to raise funds for the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER). The screenshot to the left shows a…

by Michael Dorausch Among my personally top-ranked sessions I attended at this past week’s Pubcon 2007 conference in Las Vegas was a Search and Blogging Reporters Forum that featured a panel of blog and media experts. The panel featured three big names in the industry of blogging and search (Andy Beal, Lee Odden, Rand Fishkin)…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. This is a quick post from the front row at PubCon 2007 in Las Vegas. Matt Cutts just took a question from a person in the audience who asked about directories being hit in the index back in September. When Matt is researching directories owned by an individual (or group) he…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Managing the day-to-day activities of your small business can be tough enough, without having to be worrying about what you’ll have to do to get your website online, and stressing over what steps you’ll need to take to ensure your business appears in search engine results, when people are seeking your…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I came across a web site today with a blog post by an Internet marketing specialist that was recently interviewed for an article which appeared in the Guardian newspaper. Andy Beard, the guy that was interviewed, didn’t get a link to his web site in the online version of the newspaper…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. There were several news reports earlier this week with findings that some presidential candidate web sites are receiving more user traffic than others. It’s easy to assume that the most popular candidates are going to naturally have the most popular web sites, that’s not necessarily the case. After reading a few…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Google News has began embedding YouTube video into news results appearing on the homepage. Just in time for the YouTube 10 second video advertising overlay announced earlier this week. See screenshots with news of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. There was news posted to Planet Chiropractic last week about an introduction of…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. If you own an Internet domain name, chances are you’ve received a letter like the one that came in my mail today. It was a domain name expiration notice sent by some company I’ve never done business with before. The letter appears official with pictures of the American flag, barcodes, and…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. On Sunday, I did a different kind of news article on Planet Chiropractic. It was the result of a bunch of friends asking me questions over the weekend about search traffic, keywords, and delivering timely content. I thought it would be a good idea to answer their questions by way of…

A power outage today in San Francisco has knocked out a number of highly popular websites, including craigslist.org, livejournal, typepad, Technorati, and others. That’s one major subluxation! Fortunately, Planet Chiropractic data servers are up! Upon noticing a spike in web searches for terms such as craigslist sandiego, livejournal down, craigslist raleigh, netflix down I did…

It’s Sunday afternoon at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco and I’ve been at my laptop an estimated combined 18 hours since booting up early Saturday morning. There are over 395 pressers (people using wordpress) in attendance and looking around the room it is rare to see someone not using their laptop. I have not gotten…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. They pop up like weeds, offers to chiropractors to get you “top” in search engines with magic search engine techniques and “soon to be” high traffic domain destinations. They use fear, your “territory” is still available but it will soon be gone, act now, send us your money, we are going…

A chiropractor e-mailed me today with the following… Some company (The National Internet Directory or something like that) has called me a few times stating that I’ve updated/upgraded my webpage/internet site and that I now owe $150/year. Are they legitimate? My chiropractic office was contacted by several different companies last year regarding Internet directories for…

Some people have been e-mailing me asking what RSS stands for, since they’ve been seeing buttons that say on planetc1.com news pages. In chiropractic, RSS stands for Really Subluxated Spine, but that’s probably not the definition you are seeking. If you do have a really subluxated spine leave your computer now and call your local…