UPDATE: You have to find your DNS settings from the Belkin router and manually put them into the settings on your MacBook airport advanced settings. See here for more. http://kl.am/snowbelkin A few weeks ago, I noticed that I wasn't able to fully access some sites from home. Mainly MailChimp and Twitter. I could get to them, but I couldn't fully load them. Oddly enough, when connected to other networks, things loaded just fine. So I turned to ...

You answer "They work on the Internet ..." when asked what your child does. Since that narrows it down. You ask them for help with your computer when it breaks. As if we know what is wrong with your computer at all times. You send all of your friends to your child when their computer breaks. See #2. We just problem solve. You think they can design anyone a website. Repeat after me. Web designers aren't SEOs, and SEOs aren't web ...

Working in search engine marketing, we see all sorts of articles that seem like they will give you the answers to all of your online marketing issues. I've written some, and the titles do sound awesome, but if you read them they will always say (or should) "every company is different." We can tout different site maps and plans all day, but in the end the point is there is no road map to success. Online or in life generally. If you read any ...

I have been noticing a trend on my twitter account @katemorris. I get new followers on a fairly regular basis, but most are spam, so I don't pay the emails any mind. So why not turn off the notification emails you ask? Do I just like to see my follower number go up? Nope. (No really!) There are sometimes that people/businesses follow me that I know and want to follow when I see their names. Just the other day, someone I thought I was ...

It has been a goal of mine for a long time to be a published author. Poetry, business, fiction, something. So imagine my surprise when I come across search results for my name with a new book. The Seven Year Itch is by Kate Morris, but another wonderful lady that lives in England. She has a blog hosted on blogspot, and her book is available through Amazon UK only (sigh, I'll have to bug someone to get it for me). I have not read it yet, but ...

Picture this. I'm in New York at SMX East 2008, my first speaking gig. I'm at dinner with some awesome people (including Brandy Eddings, Manda Otto, Scott Polk, Tony Adam, Carol Adam, Todd Friesen, Brent Payne, and Jonathan Dingman), and I look around when we are waiting for a table. Lo and behold, I am the only one without an iPhone. Seriously. That was a year ago and the time has come to get one. I have been a loyal AT&T customer for ...

I am a Texas girl. Born and raised. I am a liberal for the most part. I vote fairly regularly. But I really don't get into the depths of politics. That is until it meets the SEO world. And today it did. I got a call from the Austin American Statesman wanting to know my opinion on a site supposedly put up by the Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson campaign called http://www.standbykay.com My first reaction? No redirect from non-www to www ...

Got this text last night: ------------------------------------- FRM:sterling MSG: Sterling Alert. Unusual Activity - Call now at 1-(800) 283-7197 From Number: 1010100025 -------------------------------------- Yep, same as the email from years ago. I know it's spam because I don't bank with Sterling. And when I called out of curiosity, they asked for bank number and credit card number in their entirety. So pass, share, let ...

Here is a good way to start a Monday. I have recently been acquiring some childhood books that I thought I would never find again. But thanks to the power of the web, I have located them and found that I really still enjoy the stories. I am even contemplating buying some other series from the authors. Now these are old, and written for middle school aged children, but awesome none-the-less. (Full disclosure, these are affiliate ...

This is going to be a short entry, but to follow up a tweet: He did order them, and in fact got me one too. (He mentioned where he got them here.) And here is the evidence. Needless to say, there will be much fun with this stamp when doing thesis research. ...