Bramblog

I swear, I’m not just using this blog to brag. I don’t have that much stuff to brag about. Nevertheless, I was really happy to check for and see that my buddy hit #1 for Austin welder. He’s getting business out of it, and there’s not a better Austin welder, or a nicer guy that deserves the biz. Regardless, it’s not that competitive of a term, but it’s definitely helping my boy stack the cheddar!

Google has recently acquired 25k sq ft of office space in downtown Austin’s Scarbrough Building.  They are expected to employ 125-150 engineers & other employees.  You know what this means….easier to meet one at a bar, drop ‘em a roofy, and get all the secrets!

Alright…I’m in not an affiliate of inmotionhosting, and I’m popping this logo in below because I’m a big believer in a photo on every blog. *edit* Now it’s an affiliate link for my buddy Terry, who turned me onto this.

Anyways….we’re now sitting on the bomb-diggity-proof server…guaranteed. We have 1gb of RAM bursting to 3gb, and can handle as many inquiries as can be thrown at us. It’s a VPS, but if we go over our allocated share of system resources, they automatically reallocate, and set up a call within 30 days to talk about possible upgrades.

Inmotion was the only hosting company I talked to that was familiar with the digg effect, and their customer support has been absolutely awesome thus far.

And there are problems….obviously.  I have someone working on it the next couple of days.  Should be back up soon.

Apparently, Google’s propagating a PR update right now.  I only checked a couple of pages, and didn’t see any movement on them, but it’s confirmed by good sources that it’s happening.  Always fun to whip ‘em out & measure!

I found this on digg, and thought it was hilarious. Check it out:

Over the weekend! We’re also popping for 200+ long-tails. BTW - this is my tanning lotion project, TanTans.com. Partnering w/ 2 friends from college - one owns a tanning salon, and one is a web/graphic designer.

One of my buddies is a welder & did a killer job for me on the custom rails in my house.  So…we got to talking, and it turns out Lane is a maritime master electrician - he’s rated to work on pretty much anything on the sea.  My girlfriend’s house was built in the early 50’s, and the electrical was jacked.  I had someone put together a website for Lane as a “thank you” for taking care of my rails (and doing it for a great price.)  We started talking about the electrical work we needed at Ali’s house, and bartered some SEO work on Lane’s site for him to take care of the electrical problems.  So…I’m going to get him ranked for terms like Austin welder & Austin welding.  I’ve never worked on anything this non-competitive before, so I’m really excited to see how easy it will be to get rankings.  Based on the competition, I think I should be able to do it with some minimal linking - the on-site is basic enough that I’m not really worried about it.  Regardless, I’ll blog later once we’ve hit top 5.

Sorry for the lack of activity over here.  I recently got a guest blogging spot on Bloodhoundrealty’s blog, so my last 2 posts have been over there.  More than anything, my home remodel & move has consumed all of my time.  We’re 95% finished, and have renters moving into my girlfriend’s house - so we had to move yesterday.  It’s been a huge pain in the a**.  I haven’t shot pics of the house in a while, but here’s a link to the last pics I took.  More will be up w/in a week or so.

Regardless…expect more activity here after the weekend.

I decided to start my 2nd blog in order to organize the topics I write about a little better.  I’m primarily a real estate broker, but I’m also very OCD & constantly have side projects in the works.  I was blogging about my side projects & SEO quite a bit on my real estate blog, and it began to work against reinforcing my “real estate brand.”  People who choose to use me or my company to help them buy or sell a home do not need to hear about my tanning lotion project, or about my SEO skillz (or complete lack thereof.)

Regardless, I will definitely be very active on this blog - and will be able to direct the subject matter on my real estate blog much more effectively.

Oh - this blog is also a do-follow - check out the rules & the LLL settings.