Brian LaFrance

I Hate Writing, so Why Do I Have a Blog?

by Brian November 30, 2007

I have had several friends ask me why I even have a site/blog if I hate writing so much. There are 5 main reasons:
1. Someday, I hope to stop hating writing and actually put some useful information on here that will help other people. Blogging about SEO and bitching about Google is way [...]

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My Amazon Wish List

by Brian November 24, 2007

For those people who keep asking what I want for Christmas…
My Wish List

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Reasonable Theory or Bad Math?

by Brian November 6, 2007

I had a little “discussion” with a friend of mine earlier tonight on our way home from a local SEO meetup. We were discussing the scalability of a product’s sales relative to how much of the search market share a site or sites can get for a given term. I’ll use “buy red [...]

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It’s becoming a Mac world

by Brian October 31, 2007

I’m sitting here at the airport in Colorado Springs waiting for my flight back to Phoenix. Looking around, no less than half of the laptops in use in this area near gate 3 are MacBook Pros. Many of the users are older, and most likely business travelers. It’s nice to see so [...]

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Firefox 2.0.0.8 Add-Ons Problem

by Brian October 20, 2007

I made the mistake this morning of letting Firefox upgrade itself on my desktop without doing any digging around to see if people were having problems with it. Normally I do that, but I had stopped worrying about it for Firefox. Stupid me.
Upon restarting Firefox, it appeared that the theme I use was [...]

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I’m an SEO Dark Lord…

by Brian September 20, 2007

From the SEOMoz SEO Quiz…wasn’t really *that* hard…
SEO Dark Lord – 99%
Are you an SEO Expert?

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Transmit Rules

by Brian September 3, 2007

I really enjoy some of the Mac-only software that I use on my laptop. For some reason,Transmit has been fun to use since the first time I downloaded it. I know that it’s *just* an FTP program for most people, but it’s probably the best $30 I’ve ever spent on software. [...]

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