Sat, 6 June 2015
I'm completely STOKED about this new format. Please help me welcome Bryan Baird to the Arthropodcast! Check out the 12th episode as we discuss the latest fruit fly study, an albino squirrel sighting, and which celebrities would make the best/worst exterminators. |
Sun, 31 May 2015
There’s been some question about Wikipedia usage for the Best Exterminator on Earth 30 day SEO challenge. I’m not saying you can’t use the site for backlinks, visibility, or whatever, I’m saying wikipedia pages will ignored in the Search Engine Results Page.
The reason for this wiki ban stems from last years"World's Coolest Exterminator" competition.
As you probably now Wikipedia is a site with tremendous authority, so it ranks well in Google for just about everything.
So, I wrote an article on the site explaining the origins and rules of the World’s coolest exterminator competition. That article was crawled by web spiders, indexed and given the top position of Google within 20 minutes of the time I hit publish! Within another 20 minutes, the moderators killed the article citing, "Contest was not of significance". The search results, however, continued to give the dead article the top position for several days. When you clicked on the link, it took you to a "Page Removed" notification.
When this happened, I knew the site could be abused to win the contest. Simply submit an article 20-30 minutes before the competition ended and have a top ranking position. Sure the moderators would take the new "Best Exterminator on Earth" article down, but it would probably be alive at the time of the deadline.
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Sun, 24 May 2015
This is a great way to let the customer know you really care about them. Thanks for the tip Northeastern Exterminating! |
Fri, 15 May 2015
True story. Studies in 1948 and 1995 were conducted to determine the effect drugs would have on a spider's ability to spin webs when exposed to these said drugs. Did I mention one of these studies was conducted by NASA? |
Sun, 10 May 2015
I was actually going to take a whole different direction for Episode 9, but decided to change things up the day of release. Hope you enjoy this one as much as I do. |
Sat, 2 May 2015
On episode 8 of the Arthropodcast, I review a movie and talk about a recent mosquito experiment by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. If you have question, comments, suggestion, or would like to be featured on the Arthropodcast, send me a message on Arthropodalley.com or shoot me a tweet on Twitter - @stevejacksonus. |
Sun, 26 April 2015
In Episode 7 of Arthropodcast, Steve Jackson discusses age limitations, urban coyotes, and what smokers and bees have in common. |
Sun, 19 April 2015
In this episode. I discuss three freebies that have helped me in my career as a pest control professional. |
Sun, 12 April 2015
The pest control industry grew 3.5% in 2014, but it appears bed bug control is not the biggest contributing factor. |
Thu, 9 April 2015
Vacuuming is a great cleanout method; but is there a better, less-expensive way? We'll take a look at an interesting option and the pros and cons that come along with it. |