#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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