As this video compilation of newscasts in Florida shows, prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs for children are down 75% in Florida after a review process was put in place a year ago. In order for a psychiatrist to prescribe powerful and dangers anti-psychotic drugs to children, they must first get approval do so from a review […]
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Teen Screen = More Psych Drugs Paid for with Tax Dollars
This is an interesting video from CCHR on Teen Screen, the insidious effort by the P$ych industry to get guaranteed funding for mandatory screening of all children from zero to 18, all pregnant mothers-to-be and all new mothers. My take on this is very easy to state: Don’t let this happen. When an industry as […]
Content Management System (CMS) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
I’m working to optimize a website for the search engines (primarily Google, of course) using as a guideline an SEO audit I did of this site a month or so ago. The site is built using a content management system (CMS) and uses various templates for different sections of the site. There are some good […]
What I learned at SearchFest 09 (SEMpdx)
This is a summary of the new SEO tricks that this particular old SEO dog learned about SEO from SEMpdx SearchFest 2009, held at the Portland Zoo conference facility in Portland, Oregon, on March 10, 2009. It is in no particular order: What is EVERY visitor to your site worth to you? If you don’t […]
Notes on Logging – and a surprise
Today I took my camera and dogs on a walk up the hill from our ranch house to where we are doing some logging — about 20 acres of mixed alder and fir trees. It’s March 3rd, which is very early to start logging. There’s mud everywhere because it has rained about 6 inches in […]
Scientific proof that Narconon drug education works to prevent drug use
A recent drug education study published in a science journal by a well known behavioral scientist, Richard D. Lennox, and Marie A Cecchini, proves conclusively that the Narconon Drug Education program for high school students drastically reduces drug use among those students. Congrats to Narconon (one of my clients) for this milestone. The Narconon program […]
Carri Bugbee of BigDealPR wins Shorty Award
My friend and colleague Carri Bugbee of Big Deal PR in Portland has just won an award at the first annual Twitter awards, winning a “Shorty” award for her many tweets as fictional character @peggyolson (a character from the TV show MadMen). She’s got about 12,000 followers on Twitter, who have followed her many thousands […]
Google AdWords Conversion Tracking – More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
We manage the Google AdWords accounts for many of our clients. Tracking the results of a Google Adwords campaign is, most of the time, pretty easy. Put the conversion tracking code on their sites and let Google Analytics take care of it. Some clients want their website to sell things, and we set up shopping […]
Rolling Stone Article: Marketing a Phony “Miracle” Drug
There’s a great article in Rolling Stone about Eli Lilly marketing their phony miracle drug, Zyprexa[link is behind a paywall now]. It does a good job documenting how Lilly misled doctors and the public in order to rake in billions of dollars. It fails, however, in ascribing their misdeeds to oversight and wishful thinking. The […]
Questions re naming of domains and pages for SEO
Jimmy asked: Would you say its better to have your domain name relevant to the sites content or actual highly searched for keyword that will be optimized on the site? Content — Do you recommend hiring someone to write content if we cant do on our own? how exactly does this work? I’ve been told […]