Patrick Coombe

SEO email marketing gone HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY wrong!

This poor, poor uninformed "SEO content writer" (a word I despise on a cellular level) blasted a scraped list of 500 (probably more)emails and openly included everyone's email. So it went something like this:   About an hour later, the shitstorm began taking form. (they are still coming in) -----------begin facepalm----------- Spamming fellow marketers with this tactic is almost [...]

By |August 29, 2014|Blog, Rants, SEO|Comments Off on SEO email marketing gone HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY wrong!

Installing Android on an x86 (PC) via Virtualbox

I've been hearing a lot of chatter in the PC world lately about Android coming up as a viable desktop platform. Supposedly Android 4.4 has made some great strides and will one day give Linux, Windows and Mac a run for its money. Either way, here is the installation process of Android Kitkat 4.4 rc1 on a PC using [...]

By |August 17, 2014|Blog, How Tos, Network Admin|Comments Off on Installing Android on an x86 (PC) via Virtualbox

Home Office Remodel: an SEO’s Paradise

I've been working on getting my home office juuuuuuust right for the last month, about 10 minutes ago I think I finally finished. The best part about all of this is the huge amount of desktop space I have. It is about 7 feet wide and 3 feet deep. (2) 27" monitors sit a top of it with very [...]

By |August 15, 2014|Blog, Personal|Comments Off on Home Office Remodel: an SEO’s Paradise

The more I learn about SEO the less “SEO tools” I use

I will always be a student of SEO. The day I start calling myself an expert is the day I stop getting good at SEO. I have so much to learn from so many different people. The great thing about SEO is that it encompasses so many different disciplines, I could literally spend my entire life learning about SEO [...]

By |August 6, 2014|Blog, Rants, SEO|Comments Off on The more I learn about SEO the less “SEO tools” I use

Rant: CTA bar plugins PR leak, traffic leak and link scheme

Hello my friends. I'd like to ask you a very short and simple question: Would you install a website addon, extension, or plugin that embeds an image and do-follow link to someone else's website at the top of your website contained within a call to action? My official answer: hell-to-the-no! Anytime I see a plugin that attempts to add [...]

By |July 17, 2014|Blog, Rants|Comments Off on Rant: CTA bar plugins PR leak, traffic leak and link scheme

Getting started as a Wikipedia editor for complete and total newbs

Twas' just a few months ago and I was a Wikipedia newb. Sure, I've used Wikipedia as a means of learning and reference for years, but I've never taken that step to become an editor. Becoming a Wikipedia editor is not only a great way to give back to a community you most likely have taken from for years, [...]

By |July 6, 2014|Blog, How Tos|Comments Off on Getting started as a Wikipedia editor for complete and total newbs

Google’s Parking Directions: Still a Ways Off

Was perusing the interwebs on my mobile devices just now and noticed something new on Google Now. Google has now started showing me where I parked. Now this might be cool if I have 5 cars and I'm out of town and need to know roughly what part of the world I parked in, but I have only 1 [...]

By |June 29, 2014|Blog, Reviews|Comments Off on Google’s Parking Directions: Still a Ways Off

The hedgehog powered Twitter bot and the man behind it

Was passively poking around Hackernews this evening reading a really cool thread titled: "What projects are you working on?" when I stumbled upon an answer that piqued my interest. Apparently a Chilean programmer named Jose Luis Honorato took it upon himself to connect his hedgehog "Antu" to Twitter. photo credit: Jose Luis Honorato Basically the bot works like this: [...]

By |June 28, 2014|Blog, Social Media|Comments Off on The hedgehog powered Twitter bot and the man behind it

My emotional health is competely dictated by my analytics

Raise your hand if you relate: You wake up in the morning and before you brush your teeth, have your coffee or even wipe the crust off of your eyes, you are checking your analytics, statistics, and earnings. AMIRIGHT? If you are like me, you have 100's of sites that you are watching at any given time: your "money [...]

By |June 24, 2014|Blog, Personal, SEO|Comments Off on My emotional health is competely dictated by my analytics

SEO: Things to do when your internet goes down

Our internet went down last week which put our operations to a grinding halt. Ah, first world problems. Rarely does this happen because we have a neighbor with a WiFi we can borrow or tether to 4G but we had a huge outage in the area for several hours. This led me to come up with a plan of [...]

By |May 27, 2014|Blog, SEO|Comments Off on SEO: Things to do when your internet goes down