Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs and real SEO

SEO has been an elusive subject for webmasters for 15+ years now but no one has really figured out how exactly search engines(mainly Google) work. The modern era of SEO began with the penguin and panda updates. These updates hit many webmasters hard and many never fully recovered. These updates penalized many of the "blackhat" SEO tactics and forced many people who where just farming low-priority links like link farms to re-examine their strategy. Google has done further updates to kill the (...)

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Chequamegon National Forest

Over the long weekend, I went north up to Chequamgon National Forest (...)

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Galena

I finally got myself to Galena, a quiet scenic town in Northern Illinois, home of president Grant. It is a lovely little place with a great park and river running through it. It has an old down feel. Check out the streets of downtown:

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Best custom web design companies

I know many of you here looking for photos are also looking for web design companies as well. Design and good photography go hand in hand. If you looking for well established web design companies, you should take a look at a list of Best Custom Web Design Companies as rated and reviewed. Have a good look and perhaps you may find what you need.

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Mississippi Palisades State Park

Took a trip to Mississippi Palisades State Park the other day as its one if the few scenic areas in the state of Illinois I've been wanting to see. You get great views of the river from the bluffs.

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Adding photos from other sources

Since I started this site more than three years ago, my focus has always been to provide people with the best photos possible from places all around the world. I have kept this site strictly to my own photos but now I realize that since I cannot be everywhere at once, I have to add photos from other sources if I want to have a full global album for designers and other webmasters to use. So starting now, I will start to add photos from other sources. Much of the content will still be my own (...)

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Horicon Marsh

Horicon Marsh is one of the best wildlife viewing places in Wisconsin. You will need a zoom lens to get good shots(or a really good optimal zoom point and click), to get a close shot. The sunset landscapes are, however, great.

 

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Anchour uses high-quality stock photos in branding

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Digital Zoom Explained and demonstrated, why you shouldn't pay for extra Digital Zoom on a Camera

Here we explain the Marketing Gimmick known as Digital Zoom and why you shouldn't pay more for the feature on a compact camera.

 

 

Flambeau River State Forest

I went to Flambeau River State Forest which is about 4 hours upstate. This is the first trip I made with my new Camera, the Awesome Nikon D750, which allowed me much better photo and for the first time, decent night sky photos. The Milky Way shines brights in the night at Flambeau:

 

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