Sunday, April 26, 2009

Online Marketing Conference in Chicago

We are planning our next trip and it will be to attend an Online Marketing Summit at the Hilton in Chicago on the 27th of May. Adam has never been to Chicago and I haven't been there in years. One of my best friends is from and still lives in Chicago with her husband and two dogs.

The conference is only one day, so I'm hoping to have some time to take Adam to see all the sights of Chicago. We'll be spending the rest of our time working with my girlfriends' husband to do more training for search and online marketing.

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Lanzarote Spain - Lanzarote Holiday

The new Travel Directory Blog just published an un-compensated guest post about Lanzarote Spain, which is the eastern most Canary Island that is about 80 miles off of the coast of West Africa and has some amazing volcanic scenery.
Photo by James Mitchell Lanzarote Photography


The guest post has made me add Lanzarote onto the list of places that Lizzie and I must absolutely visit in our future travels.
Be sure to check out the post and to visit the site of the guest author if you are searching for information on hotels in Lanzarote.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Back From SES NY


Last week, Lizzie my wife and I, attended the NY SES for the Thursday March 26th sessions. SES or Search Engine Strategies, is the the conference that all the top SEO’s attend. Lizzie and I split up and attended different sessions. My wife attended the Issues and Answers Track and I attended the Social Media...read more about our SES NY Trip

Friday, March 20, 2009

All Travel Sites- Niche Travel Directory

All-Travel-Sites.com, a niche travel directory was just started to support the travel related aspects of our growing SEO business. As it turns out we have multiple clients in the travel business, so a travel directory will be a valuable part of those marketing endeavors.



The travel directory was set up using the PHPlinkdirectory 3.4 script. We have multiple directories, but this is the first directory using the 3.4 version. The user interface is very easy to use, as it does compare to the earlier versions that we have used. But it also has a lot of improvements.


The biggest improvement that I love is the use of blogging features, such as an integrated article directory and the ability to add comments to individual listings. I have been a fan of directories that use these commenting features for sometime, but this is the first one I have owned with this feature...All I have to say is...sweet.


Do You Have a Travel Site?


If you have a travel site I recommend that you head on over to the travel directory and add your site. For a limited time, free listings will be added with the "Nofollow tag" disabled for the first year. After a year the listing owners will have the option of upgrading or having the "Nofollow enabled".

Please feel free to add any travel related articles as well.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Penn State for Youth Hockey

Last weekend, Lizzie and I had an overnight trip to Penn State to watch my son play in several youth hockey games. Sadly his team did not do to well, having lost both games that we where there to watch.
We did however get to do a little cruising around the State College campus to include a visit to the Penn State Creamery, which actually sells ice cream that is made on the campus as part of their dairy educations program. Individuals and organizations from all over the globe come to Penn State to take the Ice Cream Short Course, to learn how to make fantastic ice cream. And I must say, the Chocolate chip ice cream was delicious.

We also had the pleasure to eat at the Mad Mex restaurant for our evening dining on Saturday night. I had the most delicious Thai Curry Burito which had rice, curry of course and lots of pineapple.

We stayed at the Hampton Inn, and were very please with the hospitality we received. The brown bag breakfast was un-expected but very welcomed.
All in all, I would say we had a very relaxing little trip to State College, and I am sure that we will be back in the future, as my son will with out a doubt, play hockey there again.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Park City Double Diamond


It was a sweet day of skiing on this Park City Double Diamond. The view was sweet, and the powder was so light.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Park City Action Cam

In preparation for the Park City ski trip, Lizzie got me an action cam..I can't wait to get some sweet action videos of me falling down the mountain.