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I read a blog post recently about types of traffic to blogs and which traffic is most likely to stick around. If I could find that post, I'd link it here, but I've lost it. It got me to thinking, though - which type of traffic should we be gunning for for our own sites - search, referral from bac...

Do you have a back yard clothesline? Do your neighbors? Did you, or you mom, or your grandmother have one whe you were growing up? I did, they did, my mom did, and my grandmother most certainly did. I'm not sure my grandmother even knew how to turn on her dryer - she was rather horrified the one ...

Do we all perceive beauty the same way? Do we want to? When I first got serious about photography, I photographed typical things: babies, kids, home decor, pretty flowers. Then, I got bored and started looking longer and harder for items that might be interesting to photograph. My family chides m...

Austin just hosted it's seconda annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour in April of 2011. 20 homes were on the tour, each with a backyard chicken coop. We dragged our kids to 6 of the homes, which took about 2 and a half hours. As the popularity of backyard chicken farming grows, so does the interest in h...

Do they even call them that anymore? Ink Shops? Tattoo Joints? Tattoo Shops? Body Art Spas? Whatever they are, Austin has a lot, probably more per capita than most other cities. That also means that Austinites sport a lot of tattoos, even in the professional set. (No, not me!) With that comes com...

If you've visited small towns in Texas, you've probably seen quite a few Texas Historical Markers, those plaques that are often found in front of old libraries, courthouses, town squares or even trees. If you're writing blog articles about some of these towns, snap a few pix of the markers, too, ...

So, you have a client with an old house, unfortunately updated in the 1970s, with a lot of original details missing. You've seen those, right? Maybe they want to sell it but want to update, first, or maybe they just bought it and want to bring it back to it's original glory. Either way, sometimes...

If you have a client with a small coutertop that looks like crap, you might want to consider sending them to a local granite yard for granite remnants. Some granite fabricators will sell you small pieces with out making you buy the whole slab. These can be used for bathroom counters, laundry room...

Live in Austin and want some cute, flirty clothes and earrings - some that can go from work to play? We browsed the racks at Maya Star, and found a ton of cute pieces mixed with suit seperates with trendier cuts and fabrics - lightweight ones that can handle the Texas summer heat. Although I pref...

Yeah, we know: blog about what you know. Blog a lot. Blog about local stuff. Do you know how to research the words or phrases that get search traffic in your area? In other words, do you know how to use Google's External Keyword Tool? Keywords are, of course, the words and/or phrases people use f...