by Michael Dorausch, DC If you own an Internet domain name, chances are you’ve received a letter like the one that came in my mail today. It was a domain name expiration notice sent by some company I’ve never done business with before. The letter appears official with pictures of the American flag, barcodes, and credit card logos. I’m told I’m receiving this letter as a courtesy to notify me that domain name registration on a chiropractic domain is due to expire in the next few months. I am also told that when I switch to this domain registry service
by Michael Dorausch, DC On Sunday, I did a different kind of news article on Planet Chiropractic. It was the result of a bunch of friends asking me questions over the weekend about search traffic, keywords, and delivering timely content. I thought it would be a good idea to answer their questions by way of an article, so I posted the news article Sunday afternoon, not really expecting to hear any feedback. It’s funny how things sometimes happen when you are helping others and not expecting anything in return. Later Sunday afternoon I noticed the news post appearing in Google
A power outage today in San Francisco has knocked out a number of highly popular websites, including craigslist.org, livejournal, typepad, Technorati, and others. That’s one major subluxation! Fortunately, Planet Chiropractic data servers are up! Upon noticing a spike in web searches for terms such as craigslist sandiego, livejournal down, craigslist raleigh, netflix down I did some searching of my own. I checked out wordpress.com and the site was running smoothly. I was just in SF this past weekend at WordCamp and there was discussion about servers and server loads, but not power outages. Surprising to see such large web properties
It’s Sunday afternoon at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco and I’ve been at my laptop an estimated combined 18 hours since booting up early Saturday morning. There are over 395 pressers (people using wordpress) in attendance and looking around the room it is rare to see someone not using their laptop. I have not gotten a consensus as to how many here are receiving chiropractic care and I did not bring my portable xray unit or even my xray goggles to check cervical curves but looking around the room I can see alot of forward head carriage. This is something
by Michael Dorausch, DC They pop up like weeds, offers to chiropractors to get you “top” in search engines with magic search engine techniques and “soon to be” high traffic domain destinations. They use fear, your “territory” is still available but it will soon be gone, act now, send us your money, we are going to be at the top and you could be there too! Someday I may have a list together of companies I’ve seen appearing in emails (spamming me), and in online advertisements, that were here today and gone tomorrow. It appears that for every one I
A chiropractor e-mailed me today with the following… Some company (The National Internet Directory or something like that) has called me a few times stating that I’ve updated/upgraded my webpage/internet site and that I now owe $150/year. Are they legitimate? My chiropractic office was contacted by several different companies last year regarding Internet directories for chiropractors and “Yellow Pages” type directories. It is a common tactic for some of these companies to develop pages without the chiropractor’s knowledge or consent. They will typically design a single simple page that is based on a template which includes the doctors office address,
Some people have been e-mailing me asking what RSS stands for, since they’ve been seeing buttons that say on planetc1.com news pages. In chiropractic, RSS stands for Really Subluxated Spine, but that’s probably not the definition you are seeking. If you do have a really subluxated spine leave your computer now and call your local chiropractor. RSS, in relationship to computers and the Internet, stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a collection of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs (like this one), news feeds (planetC1.com news) or podcasts. Until just recently, most