Posts from — April 2008

Well I decided to take my shot at hacking up a WordPress theme … I am familiar with developing in ColdFusion but I figured, what the hell … I’ll take a shot a PHP too …

A buddy of mine gave me access to this monstrous archive of PHP tutorials so I had might as well start to learn something more exciting than how to format content for SEO purposes …

I may do SEO for a living but I have to tell you the truth … doing SEO all day … is really boring. To me, it seems like there is always something challenging and exciting about code. But SEO? Not really.

So I created this theme as a complete Frankenstein Job of the Connections 1.0 Styling and the Neo Classical Engineering … It took me quite a bit of hackery to make it all work out the way I wanted … and I’ll probably still be hackin’ it some more as soon as I discover the bugs … but, I think it looks pretty cool … if you’re not too shy … let me know what you think.

I am so damned busy building out sites for clients and working on projects for others that I haven’t had any time to take care of my blogs and sites … That brings me to an important topic. How important is managing others business when it effects that possible growth and development of your business?

I see it as a fairly difficult decision to deal with. On one hand, the clients pay the bills … on the other, if I don’t take care of my business, then no one is going to do it for me …

When I first started doing SEO independently, not like it is has been that long since I went out on my own … I had a real good plan to devote half of my time to marketing and the other half fulfilling assignments for clients … Now that I have a ton of work coming in, I have been slacking at the marketing side of my business … You’ve got to love it … a search engine marketing “expert” … slacking off at marketing for himself … Though this may seem like the last thing that an SEO would do, I am sure that I am not the first SEO to get piled up with work …

Realistically, it is very hard for me to dedicate my time to anything other than fulfilling client orders right now … as it stands … I am only getting about 4-5 hours of sleep … every other night … (No Joke .. )

So, I guess this is my way of getting a break if you want to call it that … my five minutes away from solving the problems of others … so that I can solve one of my own … If that is what I just did ….