#30DC - SEOC chart

Well it's 16 days into the 30 Day Challenge and I finally have found some winner micro-niche keyword phrases.

They all pass the traffic and competition criteria.

I just found these today and need to verify more of the SEOC charts on several of the phrases.

I believe this first phrase that I've examined with Market Samurai has good SEOC chart.

To my thinking the high DA will not matter because the URL is a deep link to a product page. This validates the presence of a market and indicates product availability for testing purposes.

If any Samurai masters out there have any thoughts I'd appreciate your comments.

Notice the uncensored section of the SEOC chart in the URL section.



Here's the Keyword research data, the chart above is for the main keyword phrase (orange row)



all the rest are also good related phrases. :)

Shootin' the MOON - photography

Warm Summer nights plus a full moon equal...

Take some shots!

Put down the Absynth - Not that kind of shot. (for the moment, anyway)

These kind of shots...

Photographs

The first is a crop of an image created using my trusty "poor man's Leica" (Lumix DMC-FZ30) with the Leica telephoto zoom lens cranked to full tilt boogie (12x / 420mm equivalent).

Camera was on a tri-pod with manual exposure settings of ISO 100, F11 aperture, at 1/100 sec.

How many "Man in the Moon" faces do you see?


The next picture is of the full moon rising over Lake Winnebago.

The same set-up was used to capture the image except the exposure settings. A program shift Auto exposure mode was used resulting in the following settings: ISO 100, F3.7, and 1.0 sec.

These settings yielded a "pretty HOT" moon (bright white, washed out)

I spent a bit of time tweaking it in photoshop to get this final image.


Whada ya think?

PHP - MySQL woes...

Okay I've been marketing my artistic photography (and other cool stuff) online for a while now. This involves linking to my items, usually through some long convoluted URL. like:

http://www.somename.com/dept/add2cart.cgi?product_number=1687564695&acc=more&onandon=ONandONweGO...etc

You get the picture.

Well Dan Raine (of IE & 30DC fame) gave out some cool goodies for xmas this year, including Redirection Rocket.

Redirection Rocket is a handy set of PHP scripts that shortens these long URLs into nice ciustom (whatever you want) URLs and stores them in a MySQL database.

Heres my problem:

The redirection only works when the destination URL is a short "clean" URL (no special characters: ? + = etc)

example: Let's say I want to send people to my zazzle gallery with this link:

http://snazland.net/recommends/FineArtPhotos

Using the Red'Rocket interface I set it all up so that the desired link will redirect/cloak the actual (long) URL. I get strange results... Depending on the destination URL structure

http://www.zazzle.com/ - works OK
http://www.zazzle.com/word1001 - works OK

http://www.zazzle.com/?rf=238571857448421591 - FAILS
http://any.url.with.special.characters.com/?here_we_go=not - FAILS

Failures are blank pages, 301 error pages, 404 error pages, etc...

I've tried \ un-escaping special characters. %3F hex encoding special characters...

I'm about out of options troubleshooting this. Any PHP wizards have an idea/suggestions???

Thanks

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Fine Art Photography Prints on Zazzle

I've been playing around with Zazzle again...

I still haven't learned all of the "quirks" of the create a product module. I screwed up the size choices for some posters / prints when I first created them.

Now too few sizes are available to any potential customers. Grrr...

I can't figure out how to correct this problem. more Grrr...

I could create a new version, selecting huge, BUT I would loose all of the comments & votes already there...

Not to mention any existing incoming links. (I'm sorta pissed...)
Guess I'll be posting in the zazzle support section.

Oh well. Sing it Dorris!

Here's a hip lil' gallery
Fine Art Photography Prints on Zazzle

Hiatus Interuptus

Well well, look what the cat dragged in...

Yeah I've been gone daddy gone for a while now.

A LOT has happened. A lot that kept me away...

Away from the camera.

Away from photography.

Away from blogging.

Away from the computer.

If you've been following my tweets you know I recently had cataract surgery.
(October 29th to be exact)

Everything is coming along nicely post surgery :)

It came on very slowly, the loss of vision...

This time, unlike the first time, It was so gradual that I constantly adapted. Never really knowing just how bad my vision was getting.

And then I failed the vision test to renew my drivers license... (oh f*k yeah!)


...

Things are much better now

(except for the $ bills - no insurance)

The Month From HELL...

Is almost over!

... and things are improving. The food photo shoot went well and the final product (electronic menu) looks quite slick. Josef (client) is very pleased. This may lead to a new business... :)

That sure as hell beats fixing the toilet, replacing the Daytona's fuel pump, and all the other shit that this month has entailed.

Good riddance to May I say!

Squidoo-do-do-di-da-da-da...

I love squidoo but sheeeeze!!

WARNING: THIS IS A RANT

I've been waiting F*ing forever now to launch a group... I can't edit the F*ing description/intro module, nothing "saves". All the other modules work dandy. Just the description, only the most important one, with all my cut-n-pasted notes and draft material haphazardly strewn about... un f*ing editable... grrr...

YES I've filed a f*ing Bug report. Asked for help in the forums and tweeted about it... See my request for help.

Note to self... (squidoo tip):

Add a new text module for drafting stuff. DON'T put notes and such in the description section.

Lesson learned. Never again...