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SEO Advice – The Horse Pill Posted on Sep 28, 08 at 3:57 pm.

The other night I had a lady ask me how to solve a tricky SEO problem she was having with a competitor and she asked me because a friend of mine told her I am an SEO Consultant. She told me her SEO problems and I gave her a solution that was a bit outside of the box and she didn’t understand that it was the solution to her SEO problem. She kept on saying here is the problem, here it is and I told her just to remove it. Sometimes you have to let go. But above all, sometimes you have to listen, then you understand. When you know your competitor is your superior at SEO or worse yet is a SEO Consultant with far superior SEO knowledge, SEO Experience and link energy than you possess. It is time for you to get your own SEO Consultant and then LISTEN to him. Sometimes the answer is going to be a horse pill you aren’t willing to swallow, but like a rip tide, if you fight it the wrong way you are always going to lose. So if your way clearly isn’t working and you have wasted two years doing it your way. Listen to good SEO advice when you ask for it and try it another way for six months. What do you have to lose when you have already lost? Nothing, right?

Quick Tip – How To Change an Image into a Web Format Posted on Sep 26, 08 at 4:00 pm.

Do you need to change an image format? Maybe you need to convert a PNG to a GIF? Or, do you need an EPS file converted to a JPG? SnipShot.com is a very easy to use, web-based image editor that allow you to change image formats. We've put together this screencast video to help you with this process.

MDA: Model-Driven Ambiguity Posted on Sep 26, 08 at 3:27 am.

I've collected a few bounded contexts on the usage of being "model-driven": Model-Driven Design: being driven by the need to capture a model of the problem space in the structure and elements of a software system (see: Domain-Driven Design) Model-Driven Development: allowing the process (activities/workflows) of forming software structures to be largely driven by a model (i.e. a Use Case Model) of the desired deliverable (see: Unified Process, Rational Unified Process) Model-Driven Architecture: allowing the platform-specific implementation (i.e. c#, .NET) to be driven (or generated) off a Platform Independent Model (PIM) captured in UML (see: Model-Driven Architecture or Model-Driven Software Engineering) With the big push for Oslo, we will have another major "model-driven" initiative in play. I'll be interested to see which of these definitions (if any) align with Oslo's goals.