YouTube is user-generated content at its best…and worst. Everyone in the world with a video camera — or just a Web cam and microphone — can be part of the nebulous social monster that is YouTube. So what’s that mean for educators and marketers?

How does one go about getting a job in search, or enhancing their career as a search professional? A partial answer to this question is to use a social networking tool like LinkedIn, where professionals link to one another’s resume-like profiles.

Developing proficiency for identifying and refining your keywords crosses many disciplines. It’s important to think about a strategy for your campaign and what goals you wish to accomplish before you begin.

Our keyword discovery quest continues, with a focus on analyzing and refining your initial keyword list. We’ll also look at some of the keyword tools on the Internet, some of which might help you with this process.

When you search, you’re actually searching a database of information that has been collected and stored by search engine spiders. Making friends with these crawlers is a vital part of SEO.

We began our discussion of site structure last week by looking at meta tags. This week, we continue exploring the SEO impact of site structure, including title tags, URL structure, and other on-page elements.

When using Web analytics, it’s easy to get caught up in all the numbers and lose sight of the overall goal of increasing your site’s ROI. It doesn’t do any good to use Web analytics to produce cool charts and reports, but then fail to act.

Web marketers who ignore analytics are like doctors who start writing prescriptions before bothering to examine or diagnose the patient. Without looking under the hood to see how your Web site is performing, and learning more about the people visiting your site, you’re throwing away a huge opportunity.

Revelation isn’t so complicated if you know history. Respected theologians have been creating non-sense from what they read in this book for centuries. History has always validated the bible but clearly Revelation isn’t something they teach when pastors get their degrees. Unfortunately, people will run with whatever they hear. I have been studying this book, and the entire end times topic for years. One topic. More years in fact, than it takes for a pastor to get a degree. It is my hope that you will consider this view point when you decide for yourself what you think the truth is.

Before you can understand my comments on this book, you need to start with the posts on Josephus. You can read both his actual writings and my notes about them. The  notes are shorter and in better English. Read those first and then come back.

Book of Revelation Explained – This is the final act from a very long story of the Jews that began with Adam and Eve and then Abraham. A story that repeatedly had God making conditional promises to the Jews, only to see them not be able to live up to their end of the agreement, then suffer because of it. Each time, God withdrew his protection and the Jews were killed and enslaved. Revelation is part of that cycle.  This book is the promised punishment described in the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi written 400 years BC:

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Book of Revelation Chapter 1

Be sure to look for the footnote markers and hover over them for additional comments. Words have been changed (the same thing any translated book would do.) to help the reader understand.

The Prologue
1:1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must happen very soon. He made it clear by sending his angel to his servant John, 1:2 who then testified to everything that he saw concerning the word of God and the testimony about Jesus Christ. 1:3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

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