Jon's In Waikiki (AKA The Waikiki Marketer)

I don’t know why, but I was surprised to receive an ad delivered to my mailbox. As part of some of the SE news digests I’ve subscribed to online, I also get occasional emails that are just an ad. It’s just part of the package. The info they provide in the digests is very good, […]

It is Christmas time once more here in Hawaii, as it is everywhere else. Those outside the Islands often make remarks about how celebrating here must be difficult; after all, it’s warm year ’round. Wrong. I can say that the absence of cold and snow might put up a hurdle, but Islanders figured out how […]

The past few days have brought some very interesting news for anyone in the search engine world – and it applies to everyone; search engine optimizers/marketers, businesses who are advertising online, site owners. That’s everybody. The first developments were the findings of 2 studies that had just been completed. One, done by the American Advertising […]

This actually isn’t a brand new development. If it is actually happening, it’s been going on now for at least 2 months. What surprises me is that, from reading different SE forums,  there seems to be confirmation that Google is not indexing new sites; however, it’s not a hot topic. Considering the importance of Google […]

One of the things about Hawaii that I like is that trends and fads from the mainland often never make it here. This is surprising especially today in our age of global technology and communication. The geographical isolation was felt even more when I was small. We got tv episodes here a week or two […]

My blog was hacked over the weekend, bringing the server down – which includes my web site, of course. Apparently somewhere, on some file, the permissions were set to 777, making it possible for somebody to get in and do their worst. You might want to look over your own site and/or blog for this […]