NSW Fiery Functions was mentioned by SD in a cruising pt weddings recent article and I must say, their Wedding Fire Trucks look really cool. I’ve seen fire trucks used in weddings, on tv, like in movies and stuff, but this is the first time I’ve seen a company give soon to be married couples the chance to use one. I think it’s a marvelous service and worth noting.

So i’m known to blog about random things at random times, today, it’s STD Symptoms, yeah I heard about it over at WS them talking about STD’s and STD Symptoms and all that. First off, no, i don’t have any, for all the funny people out there about to comment or email me with that remark, but thousands of people do every year, and it’s not a pleasant thing to deal with, obviously. The sex is usually great, which sometimes results in some form of STD if you’re not careful, but yeah, I doubt it’s much fun at all. I personally don’t know much about this subject, but if you head on over to STDHelp.org i’m sure you’ll have a better idea of what I’m talking about. Check our their STD forum while you’re there.

I did actually learn something useful, like how herpes can be the genitals worst nightmare, and how 1 out of 5 dudes have genital herpes, holly shit. Oh and get this, herpes can leave you prone to HIV which for all you uneducated few (me included, i just read all this, where the hell have i been living) can cause AIDS. Yes, AIDS, that stuff we only thought existed in Africa, or in the Bronx and the ghetto and shit. Crazy, so if you don’t want to get no AIDS, or herpes and you want healthy genital, then get on over to stdhelp and learn a thing or two. Seriously could save your life, or at least your healthy, normal sex life :P

The Slovenian Designer has ignited a low burning flame under Hostmonster, or has he? He just posted a Hostmonster Review on his site that pretty much has many of his readers wondering what is up? Beyond the fact that web hosting reviews are usually the last thing I read, do I really care about how good hostmonster is?

Here’s the catch though, he goes on to telling you how bad they are. That’s right, it’s one of those reviews, or is it?

See, after he complains he goes on to announcing he actually uses hostmonsters web hosting service? I have no idea what this is all about, I don’t think anyone gets it either, he even states it’s not trying to help hostmonster, he doesn’t even have affiliate links on that entire site, or plugs of any kind, just a random act of madness from this young designer.

Hostmonster, thank your lucky starts this guy was drinking when he posted this, or it could have ended up a post minus that last paragraph, which would have just been another bad rep for HM. I’m glad he didn’t all out flame them, I use Hostmonster too, and ive been a happy customer for a couple years now. Fan bo, guilty as charged.

SD mentioned custom trailers in his latest blog post that caught my interest. How they’re suitable for almost any person with a slight budget. These custom trailers are pretty cool because they really do come in all shapes and sizes. So if you’re looking for a trailer then check our Slovenian designers custom trailer post and im sure you’ll learn a lot about what you need to get to make your trailer life a better one!

Or not…the GNC Web Creations blog post by Duane over at the blackhat blog got me thinking today, it’s all great to be able to nab traffic from competitors, or just nab traffic, but how do you prevent it from happening to you?

Pretty easy, but I bet you’re reading this now and thinking, YES! I can stop so and so for ranking for my keywords. It’s all about being creative, and no, it has nothing to do with being a gay nigerian canadian…ugh I don’t know where Duane comes up with that crap!

I’ll shoot stroke an email, have him blog about a few ways to prevent someone ‘leeching’ YOUR traffic, it’s not the same as preventing someone from ranking for a certain keyword, but just as effective when it comes to not being a victim.

I’ll also start blogging there but i’ll focus mainly on Internet Marketing, maybe a little about running a community, generating money from your high traffic to low traffic blogs and how to get traffic to actually convert!

It’s about time I get back in the game.

Kim Hughes (www.kimhughes.com) a Real Estate Virtual Assistant has recently been accused of scamming business owners. There’s a lot more detail about this virtual assistant scam over at watshit.com scam reports, but this caught our attention for several reasons.

This is not good news for the Online Real Estate Virtual Assistant community, because up until now they have held a clean record as being honest hard working individuals/companies. Never have we heard of such complaint.

How do you tell if someone is planning on scamming you? How do you tell if someone is a well known scammer? Easy, you run a search, ask for signed contracts and always remember to grab as much information from the service providers in case you need to sue their asses.

A simple search like Kim Hughes Scam now returns the warning sign results.

Be careful who you do business with!

Ok so I picked a site (spotlocal.net - they state that - “Spot Local helps you target consumers who are actively searching for your service or product” -we’ll see about that) at random online to check different webmaster SEO skills out. Spot Local is the site, and what a site it is. They claim to increase traffic to advertisers and what not, at least that’s what I got from this site. It’s rather simple really, they have some major no-no’s and I’m going to exploit them by ranking higher than them, or at least rank high enough for their keywords to bug them! Funny, they have a slogan that says “Spot the difference, with Spot Local” haha well let me spot your bloopers then so you can better satisfy your users!

No navigation - Learn from their mistake, the closest thing to your body tag and one of the first thing the search engines absorb are the navigation text based links. They help a great deal and also help spread the PR juice through your site to other important pages you want to have rank higher. Their navigation is crap, sorry to say it like that, but who on earth uses a nav like that anymore? If they were thinking creativity? Originality? Then someone please slap them with a couple pound of ‘reality check’ because it’s tacky, old fashioned, confusing, retarded and crap.

Validation/Code Compliant -  Spot Local’s home page has over 40 errors. With so little content (which poses another issue) that’s way too many errors, Java, Flash, just wrongness all round.

Meta Tags - No meta description or meta keywords, which just makes me want to slap their web developers. Yes it’s not a life or death issue but any web developer knows better.

MAIL TO??? now come on, why not create a simple contact form to make users lives simpler. Fill in a couple fields and hit send, Done!

Page URL’s : They have the strangest url structure I’ve seen in a long time, numbering their pages? That’s a red light right there.

Among other things, their blog for one is not even optimized to rank at all which is sad.

Just goes to show you the sort of mistakes other webmasters are making, learn from these sites i’ll post at random here guys, don’t make the same mistakes!

So, we’re re-designing a home page for Shouting Zone, and not only that but we’ll also be setting up a personal blog for the site. The forum will get a face lift and we’ll give all our members (my friends) a friendly nudge to let them know we’re back, and for good this time.

Just to answer a couple peoples questions, I was recently asked, why bring SZ back to life, well, because it’s always been a place I could go to joke around and have some fun, I missed it.

Some asked what was going to be different this time, I personally hope not a lot, because it was great fun! There will be Design/Coding/SEO sections implemented nicely, and it wont look out of place I promise, but this is to help a lot of website owners, web developers, and regular web page designers, or users with profiles to spice things up a bit and rank higher in the search engines for more online exposure!

There will be a couple extra features, like a Shouting Zone  directory for all your favorite sites and such, also, SZ members will be able to create their own fully customized WordPress themed blogs for free and so on.

I’ve always believed in freedom of speech and self expression, if by creating a forum for people to join and freely commute in I aid in giving more people a voice to shout out and be heard, then i’ll do just that! A lot of people create forums these days and sensor a lot of peoples opinion in fear of being whip lashed by search engines, law and what not, as long as my members can be civil about it, I don’t see why I should stop anyone from saying what they have to say! ShoutingZone.com - Go check it out.

How many people out there love Yahoo!? The Yahoo search engine, in my honest opinion, is the ONLY search engine for me! Why? Well I go on and on about why Yahoo Search Engine is the best search engine in the world over at iheartyahoo where i talk about pretty much everything Yahoo related. How much I love yahoo and how I am probably the biggest Yahoo fan alive.

I hope you guys can go check it out, it’s a few days old and I’m really trying to do something new with it. Some say I’m on this one man crusade to convert all none yahoo believers, others say I’m just a Yahoo fan boy, one thing is for sure, on iheartyahoo.com I post crap worth reading, crap worth noticing. Crap you probably wont read anywhere else, so check it out. :)

Amanda is one of the few people I respect as an armature SEO. She really does think outside the box. It all started when a friend came and talked to me about giving him a hand in ranking high for a keyword, related to some seocontest2008 contest. Prize for ranking first (if all the rules were followed) would be $1,000. With a prize as small as that you would be right in thinking, what a waste of time, but for some, it’s all about Ego.

Anyway Amanda has been experimenting for the past year or so and she overheard me talking about helping this friend out. Next thing I know, she enters the contest with a unique blog post already late in the game, long after several hundred people had started over 2-3weeks before her. It was her unique post, and some of her enginuity that has now got her ranking higher than that friend that first asked for my help, having started weeks after him, she has skyrocketed from not being indexed, to ranking on the fifth page for that keyword, with only 1 real backlink to her site.

So Amanda, congrats, and show those link buying, spamming fools that it’s really not about all that, it’s about what the rest don’t really know ;)