Bing News Vs Google News for NBA Finals

Bing News Vs Google News for NBA Finals

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…

chiropracticmedia.com comes home to planet chiropractic

chiropracticmedia.com comes home to planet chiropractic

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…

Planet Chiropractic Crazy Search KeyPhrases for November

Planet Chiropractic Crazy Search KeyPhrases for November

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…

Quickfix Cloaking for Googlebot is High Risk Practice

Quickfix Cloaking for Googlebot is High Risk Practice

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…

Chiropractic Research For Cheerleaders

Chiropractic Research For Cheerleaders

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…

Search and Blogging Reporters Forum from Pubcon 2007

Search and Blogging Reporters Forum from Pubcon 2007

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)…

PubCon 2007 Craig Newmark of Craigslist Kickoff Keynote

PubCon 2007 Craig Newmark of Craigslist Kickoff Keynote

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I’m in Las Vegas at Pubcon 2007 with about 2000 others listening to the kickoff keynote speaker, Craig Newmark of Craigslist. If you don’t know what craigslist is, I don’t know where you’ve been. I’m just realizing this morning how much Craig’s creation has affected my life. I have hired at…

Avoiding Potential Website Optimization Disasters

Avoiding Potential Website Optimization Disasters

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…

Google News Begins Embedding YouTube Video

Google News Begins Embedding YouTube Video

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…

San Francisco Power Outage Darkens Colo Facility

San Francisco Power Outage Darkens Colo Facility

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…

Chiropractic Internet Directory Scams

Chiropractic Internet Directory Scams

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…