Archive for March, 2007

Union chiropractor off to good start

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Dr. Jeanine Golden, DC (a NJ Union Chiropractor) of Union Spine & Rehabilitation Center is off to a good start with new chiropractic webpages appearing on several of the Planet Chiropractic properties that provide listing and geodata for chiropractors.

According to data found in a NearMe directory, Dr. Jeanine Golden is a fantastic chiropractor and her patients love her. Her chiropractic practice features the latest state-of-the-art equipment and she utilizes a number of effective and scientifically researched chiropractic techniques. Dr. Golden provides chiropractic care utilizing techniques that include: Diversified, Thompson Drop Table, Activator, SOT, and Low Force Adjusting.

What’s intersting about the New Jersey area that Dr. Golden is in is the number of smaller communities surrounding the Union NJ area. Some of the surrounding communities include (but no way a complete list): Roselle Park, Kenilworth, Hillside, Elizabeth, Springfield, Irvington, Newark, Cranford, Garwood, Westfield, Mountainside, Maplewood, South Orange, Union New Jersey.

All of the above cities are inside of Union County which could have an effect of search results when attempting to locate “union” as one may want to specify the city vs. the county.

I noticed a 404 page not found error on the Chiropractors_New-Jersey page but it still exists within the states directory. PC1 staff may want to update pages and run some scans to check for dead pages.

Crystal meth not good for babies and Adderall in the news

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Came across this “meth” article on the web computer at ADIOLA and noticed an Adderall article today posted to Planet Chiropractic so I thought I’d share this one here…

Crystal meth not good for babies
by Michael Dorausch, DC — planetc1.com staff writer

US scientists have recently published a report with findings that babies can be exposed to methamphetamine or “crystal meth” while in the womb.

The study, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, involved analysis of hair samples by researchers who determined that crystal meth is able to cross the placenta directly to the developing fetus.

While research authors suggest that though the precise effects of the drug on a fetus are not fully known, the evidence so far points to restricted fetal growth and developmental problems. Not good news for babies whose moms are using methamphetamines.

According to the study, crystal meth users were also more likely to use other drugs, with cocaine being the most predominant.

Methamphetamine, sometimes referred to as methylamphetamine or desoxyephedrine, is a psychostimulant used primarily for recreational drug purposes. It is sometimes prescribed for ADHD and narcolepsy under the brand name Desoxyn. Meth causes euphoria and excitement by acting directly on the brain’s reward mechanisms, causing a cascading release of norepinephrine and dopamine, thus making it highly addictive.

Chiropractor and KidsAt this point you may be thinking… do we really need scientific research to determine whether methamphetamines are safe for babies in the womb? It’s probably OK to suggest that we can add meth, crank, yaba, and other methamphetamine related substances to the list of things pregnant moms should not be smoking, injecting, ingesting, or consuming.

Remember, fetal development is also affected by exposure to nicotine, cigarette smoke, heroin, methadone, cocaine, alcohol, and many other substances.

Wanna feel euphoric naturally while pregnant? Try getting a chiropractic adjustment. Not only is chiropractic safe for both mom and baby, many moms have reported easier births, improved sleep, reduced sciatic pain, greater energy, as well as other benefits.

Here is the adderall article that I saw…
Adderall Drug Controversy Continues
Controversy surrounding the prescription stimulant medication Adderall has been in the press frequently this past week. Adderall, a prescription amphetamine, typically prescribed for children and adults with ADHD, is becoming more popular for its off label uses. Among the many side effects for those taking Adderall, a decrease in appetite, insomnia, increased anxiety and irritability are all potentials.

Adderall Drug Controversy Continues

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

by Michael Dorausch, DC

Controversy surrounding the prescription stimulant medication Adderall has been in the press frequently this past week.

Adderall, a prescription amphetamine, typically prescribed for children and adults with ADHD, is becoming more popular for its off label uses. Among the many side effects for those taking Adderall, a decrease in appetite, insomnia, increased anxiety and irritability are all potentials.

pills pills pillsMany college students in the United States are well aware of Adderall’s recreational use. The potent brain stimulant has become popular for exam taking with some college kids apparently believing the drug will help them better concentrate and prepare for tests. There has long been controversy around the stimulants “cocaine like” affects on the body and health-care officials have warned against its use in anything other than its prescribed category.

Most of the news in the press lately has been around the actions of an Illinois medical doctor who reportedly has been prescribing Adderall to more than 800 overweight children and teenagers in order to get them to lose weight. According to news reports, the medical doctor has had great success with his patients losing weight while taking the drug, even though none were diagnosed with ADHD.

According to news reports, the effects of Adderall on non-ADHD patients have not been studied. Taking Adderall for weight loss seems like a rather radical and short-term solution to many critics. What about the long-term effects on the brain and neurotransmitters? Does popping pills provide one an easy out to changing nutritional habits and seeking a more healthy lifestyle? Are there other potentially life-threatening effects that have not surfaced yet?

According to various news and FDA reports, known side effects from Adderall can run from an increase in blood pressure and heart rate to slight risks of sudden death. Some critics feel it is morally and medically questionable to prescribe such a potent neurological stimulant for people trying to lose weight, especially young kids and children.

There is probably little argument that Adderall is effective in decreasing appetite just like marijuana is reportedly effective at increasing it. Maybe medical doctors will begin prescribing marijuana for kids who are too skinny and need to put on a few pounds. You may be thinking that’s crazy, marijuana is illegal and dangerous. However, if you’re living in my part of the world, you’d likely meet people thinking differently.

Here in Venice California, marijuana clinics are opening up at a greater rate than Starbucks (or at least that’s how it appears) thanks to California State marijuana legalization laws. According to current California state laws, no one can get medical marijuana without first seeing a medical doctor. Once you’ve seen your doctor and have your marijuana card, you’ll have access to marijuana cookies, pot brownies, THC lollipops, and all kinds of other creations containing the sweet leaf ganja bud.

On the topic of drugs that help people lose weight, cocaine is reportedly very effective in helping one lose weight and decreasing one’s appetite. Crystal methamphetamine is reportedly very effective in helping one lose weight as well. Certainly no medical doctor is going to suggest someone take cocaine or crystal methamphetamine for weight loss. The question is why. The obvious answer would be because the drugs are illegal in the United States. But what if they were not illegal (like the marijuana situation in California)?

Although I’ve said it a thousand times before, I’ll say it a thousand times again… drugs are drugs whether pushed or prescribed.

Here are some related articles found in the recent press…
ADHD drug use for youth obesity raises ethical questions
Adderall for overweight teens
Prescribing a problem: Part Two

Related Adderall Articles on Planet Chiropractic
Cocaine, Adderall, and Ritalin
Move Over Ritalin - Adderall is Twice as Potent
ADHD Drugs Outselling Antibiotics in Kids

Classifieds for Chiropractors

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Content translated from my native Russian language, please excuse my grammar :-)

Are you familiar with chiropractic classifieds? You must have seen classifieds in the Newspaper in many pages. This is one of the easiest, cheapest and most convenient ways of advertising. Web sites also do have a space for classifieds nowadays, and what we are going to look at is an ideal example for that. At the beginning of the page, the terms and conditions for classifieds have been stated. The payment methods and rates too are included. This service known as Planet Chiropractic Classified Ad service provide free advertising for certain categories such as chiropractic jobs and associate positions. But, charges us $ 5 per week for Practices For Sale. They also highlight that they have been able to maintain this site and give some adds free of charge with the help of the people who advertise here by paying. Payments here can be done through via Paypal or check.

Next important part is the neat search tool which works on keywords. You can use the option either to use all the keywords or any of keywords for the search. This is a very handy tool, which makes the user find what they want, with a lot of ease and efficiency. Before the classifieds, there is another header which allows you ad posting, ad maintenance, viewing your profile, viewing your quick links, turning on auto notifications, and also providing help about the system.

Post ads
First of all you must be a registered user if you are hoping to post an ad, and it is so simple. All you have to do is to provide your email address and a password for your account. If you are an already registered user you can fill in the above mentioned fields and login.

Ad maintenance
This is also a feature that can be used by the registered members. When you Login into the maintenance area, you can edit, delete, renew or modify photos attached to ads you have posted on Chiropractic Classifieds which would make your ad appear just the way you want it.

My profile
This is the place where user profiles can be created. To use this also, you must register.

My quick links
This is also a feature available for registered members, which houses a host of quick links for the user to obtain quick access.

Auto notify
This is another cool feature that is offered for the registered members. “The Auto Notify feature provides you a powerful tool to keep up to date on the newest ads posted to the Chiropractic Classifieds Classified Ads System. Using Auto Notify, you predefine specific search criteria for ads which may contain the information you have specified,” according to the help centre.

Help
This category provides with the help topics on browsing and finding ads, posting ads, ad maintenance, user registration, other system information and ad payment information. You can either type a keyword or find it using the given topics. This feature is available to anyone who visits this website. According to the help menu, you also can send these for your friend to view.

Classifieds
By clicking ‘Home’ in the header you can view the page where you can see the classifieds. These classifieds are categorised under certain topics and the number of classifieds in each topic is mentioned adjacent to it. Fairly enough, the relevant charges have been stated at the bottom of the details of the topic. So, if anyone wants to post an ad in a particular category, he is aware how much exactly he has to pay. From the description given under the topic, you can easily find what exactly you will be able to find in that category. Loaded with all this information, it’s just a matter of clicking the mouse to get hold of what you want.

All: Chiropractor Practices for Sale
By clicking this topic, you’ll be able to find the ads posted from all over the world. There are 149 ads posted under this topic, and the majority is from the US. Other than the given topic, there are ads for other Real Estate Properties, Practice wanted as well. When you click those, you get to see all the ads posted here, similar to the newspaper classifieds, but in a more attractive and informative manner. Some of the ads have contact information as well, enabling anyone who requires contacting and getting the information. Though they provide space to have a photograph most of them doesn’t have that feature given to the customer.

There are around 14 categories displayed here. All these contain various ads in various subjects. Anyone who visits this website would have a great probability of getting what they are looking for, because of the number of classifieds available.

What to improve
Although this website provides a very helpful service, its appearance is not very attractive. Users have been motivated to use this site primarily due to its service, but not because of its look and feel. It would have been better if the page would be more structured, so that people can find what they want more easily without getting the feeling of going through a maze. Apart from these few issues, the website’s service is up to the mark.

Planet Chiropractic - Serving Chiropractic Worldwide

However, it is noteworthy to mention that this would be a great area for classifieds for you to find whatever you need. It’s just a click away, fast and easy.

Sciatica Home Treatment SEO Results

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

A Comparative Study On Search Result For The Keyword “Sciatica Home Treatment”

This article is part of several looking at the results for search related information in relationship to the term “Sciatica”

A Manhattan based informative website is occupying the first place for the keyword Sciatica Home Treatment. This website is aimed to help common people suffering from various types of back pain. It is totally employed in researching on several aspects of sciatica and provides effective homely treatment to sciatica patients. This website is indeed a reliable source of information, working for public interest. Reputed physicians are associated with it to serve people in order to make a painless life.

And, interestingly the second place for the given keyword is occupied by another informative site on different aspects of Sciatica. Aim of both websites seems to be same. This website is actually holding the top two positions for the keyword “Sciatica”. It provides a through overview on sciatica and other back pains. This website is an abode of free information regarding Sciatica. All types of conventional therapies are described here that is very helpful for people suffering from sciatica & other back pains.

The next position that is third rank is strongly occupied by a website that offers natural remedies to reduce Sciatica pain. This website is offering various natural remedies to get rid of sever Sciatica pain at a reasonable cost. All of these natural remedies are herbal in nature & considered to be very effective. A clinical psychologist has been offering these herbal medicines since last 15 years. So, it can be said that this website is selling their products directly to customers at an affordable rate. Interested customers can buy their desired medicine online from this website. So, the website holding the third position is an ideal example of a B2C (Business To Customer) category Internet business.

The website occupying the fourth position for the keyword Sciatica Home Treatment seems to be an informative website. This website is trying to provide everything under one roof. Visitors can collect useful information regarding Sciatica here as well as they can select eligible physician staying at their locality from this website. Plenty of useful information such as various types of surgeries, latest research results are described here. This website is also allows doctors to find patients according to their specializations. So, this website can be termed as a helpful community website for the people suffering from Sciatica & other types of pains.

Coming down one can get a website slightly different in nature comparing to others. This website is also an information kiosk, offering information in a “Wikipedia” manner. This website also can be very helpful to gather essential information on Sciatica. It is a complete guide to learn overview of sciatica. One can get A to Z medical glossaries in this website. But, it is not proving any home made sciatica treatment procedure. This may be the reason for this website to be in 5th position for the particular keyword Sciatica Home Treatment.

After discussing the first five natural positioned websites, now it is the time to look at the paid placements at the right hand side of the search page.

Only four websites are listed there in paid placement zone. The first place is captured by a website that sells natural medicine to reduce sciatica pain. This website claims to provide very effective medicines that can reduce severe Sciatica pain with in half an hour. This website seems to be a popular one as it is taking the first position.

The second placer is occupied by another website that deals in same field like the previous one. This website is totally trying to beat the former by offering some free bonus along with every single purchase. Products offered by this website is also herbal in nature.

Third place is captured by a website similar to first two. This website is also offering their products with a special bonus offer. It is also offering natural type of medicine, which is very popular these days.

The website holding the fourth place in paid placement category is different from the top three websites. It is a review type-site to search common topics according to the requirement of a visitor. One can get complete idea about sciatica & back pain from this website. It is a typical contextual kind of website using Google adsense. Information is the main key of this website. No purchasing is done here.

From the above discussion, it is clear that top 5 websites in natural positions are galore of useful information. And as far as paid placements are concerned, top three of them are competitor websites trying to beat each other by selling sciatica medicines. Only the fourth one is a search type website that provides useful information on sciatica and other back pain.
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Seeking a chiropractor in the USA that has experience with sciatica and sciatic nerve pain? Visit the Chiropractic Directory on Planet Chiropractic.

Getting this to work took some adjusting

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I wanted to put together a site that was on a subdomain of this chiropractic website and I thought it would be an easy task.

The www prefix was already in use by the primary allchiro.com site so I thought what else could be used? I decided to create a subdirectory called “chiropractic” since that was what I planned on discussing in this space. I logged into my cPanel setup on my server and set some settings for subdomains.

Here is what cPanel wrote…

SubDomain Creation
Bind reloading on vps using rndc zone: [allchiro.com]
The subdomain, chiropractic.allchiro.com has been added.

I figured it may take some time for DNS to propagate so I did not get impatient. I moved on to the next step…

SubDomain Creation
The zone for the root domain chiropractic.allchiro.com is missing, or could not be read. The ip address will be read from the webserver configuration and a new zone will be created for this subdomain. Bind reconfiguring on vps using rndc

Created DNS entry for 1895.chiropractic.allchiro.com
The subdomain, 1895.chiropractic.allchiro.com has been added.

I’m glad the DNS entry was created and the subdomain was added but wondered if the “root domain” missing was going to be an issue. Turns out it wasn’t but something else was not functioning properly.

I installed this web blog with no errors but the pages would not appear online. Darn! I figured I’d try it again somewhere else and it worked on another server I own. Back to the server this site lives on it worked again on another domain. Looks like it was turning out to be an isolated issue affecting the specific IP address this site is using.

I ticket to NOC resolved the issue (after about 2 hours) and it turns out my httpd.conf file did not have ‘NameVirtualHost myipaddress’ before all the VirtualHost entries for the IP.

Once that was set all was just peachy! Now let’s see what we can do here besides just make our domains really annoying to type.

Top West LA Chiropractor

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Below are some results of some research on which chiropractors appear in the West Los Angeles area listings (both paid and natural) when searching “chiropractic” related topics via major search engine.

A search for chiropractic LA brings up a page from the website Planet Chiropractic, featuring an interesting article about chiropractic practice in Los Angeles.

That may not be the result people are searching for so let’s look at what else is listed. Searching chiropractic in Los Angeles you can expect to find information about Cleveland Chiropractic College, since the campus is located in Los Angeles. Looks like all LA related searches bring up at least one result for CCCLA (the school) and one for a page on Planet Chiropractic.

High on the search results for chiropractic LA is the Los Angeles Chiropractic page which is also on the planetc1.com website. The page features information for doctors of chiropractic in North Hollywood, Marina del Rey, Universal City, Thousand Oaks, Malibu and other Metro LA areas.

An interesting thing to note about CCCLA or the Cleveland Chiropractic College campus in Los Angeles is that pages from the site frequently rank for terms related to the “Cleveland” area of Ohio. While there are no chiropractic schools in the Cleveland area, Cleveland is the family name (the owners of the school system).

Search engines are getting smarter and are begining to recognize the difference between location and things. We’ll post more info about that later.

As far as paid results go, there are several listings appearing for chiropractic offices advertising services in the LA area as well as surrounding areas. I am seeing more technique related advertising which is interesting since I don’t know how well the general community knows about techniques such as DNFT, Torque Release, Grostic, and others appearing in paid search results.

State of Florida gets listed on planetc1

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Was checking updates on diretory projects and noticed that planetc1.com had added a Florida Chiropractic Directory to their already growing list of chiropractic pages.

It appears that every city in the state of Florida was added and all cities are browsable from the main index page. Looking at the planet chiropractic structure I can see that the database lives in the same root directory as the Arizona directory and the recently updated Chicago Metro Directory

Pages of particlur interest in the Chicago metro area include the Algonquin page and the Bolingbrook page, both being listed in the Chicago directory and pulling #1 rankings on several search engine pages.

Great job by the team at planetc1.com for getting so many pages ranked at the top!

Chiropractor web page gets 301 redirect

Friday, March 16th, 2007

a Livermore Chiropractic web page, located on the web site planet chiropractic, was moved from one directory to another earlier today. Some may think that moving a web page, renaming a web page, and or deleting a web page, may be no big deal. It becomes a big deal when that web page is the number one ranked chiropractic web page for the community that the doctor is practicing in.

Planet Chiropractic was upgrading some directory structure which required moving a page featuring Livermore chiropractor, Dr. George Khoury, to a new directory on the same web site. The technicians at planetC1.com did some research and found that the Livermore page was ranked at the top of the list when it came to Google searches for particular chiropractic terms related to the doctor’s web page. They didn’t want to just move the page to another directory, which would result in a page not found error (404) when someone found the old page via a search engine. To insure that the page could still be visited, the web sites technicians set up a 301 permanent redirect so that all queries for the old page would lead directly to the new chiropractic page, which resided in a different directory.

301 permanent redirects are great feature and they can be set up very quickly (especially if you’re using cPanel or some other web-based server interface), allowing you to keep your web site visitors (and the search engines) happy. After the 301 redirect was set up, the planet chiropractic tech crew went back to the search engines to check and see how well the page would perform. While the page did lose its page rank (a measurement Google uses for page popularity) there were no 404 page not found errors or broken links. Typically, the page rank (PR) appears on the new page fairly soon, as it often gets transferred from the old page to the new. The new page is in a directory that has a stronger PR value so it may up being even higher than it was previously.

The page now lives here: Livermore Chiropractor
You can access the city chiropractic directory here: PC1Directory

The information here is provided to help others gain a better understanding as to how web pages work and what tools can be used to improve how they are presented online. The above content (related to 301 redirects and 404 errors) pertains to nearly all web sites, and not just those being developed for chiropractic office use.

Chiropractic Domains Good Bad Ugly

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Amazing how many chiropractic website domains get registered on a regular basis. More amazing how many bad (may have sounded good at the time) domains there are. Any domain can be a good domain if it is active and pulling in lots of traffic. Most of these “bad” domains do not have any activity or even any content.

Here is a brief list of chiropractic domains deleting this week: cuttingchiropracticgroup.com (2007-03-07), commercechiropracticcenter.com (2007-03-09), viplodgingclayhotspingschiropracticmassageretreat.com (2007-03-11), militaryorderofchiropracticphysicians.info (2007-03-01), chiropractic-medicine.biz (2007-03-09) << hypens are just plain bad in domains.

Domains that looked long and possibly bad but turned out to be good ones: chiropracticclassifieds.com (Created on: 15-May-02), bestchiropracticschools.com (Created on: 28-Jan-06), chiropractorwebsite.com (Created on: 13-Jun-06), and chiropracticspecialists.com (Registered: 8/27/2006 - not an active website).

Chiropractic domains to watch: aboutchiro.com (was recently sighted for sale on an auction website - Registered: 9/16/2003 - Had expired from registration in 1998), chiropracticphonebook.com (non active but should not be long - white pages for chiropractors worldwide).

Back Pain News RSS Feeds

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Here are some of the latest headlines and stories related to the topic of back pain. The articles are not necessarily pro or con on the topic, they are simply aggregates of news content related to the topic of back pain.

You can mix your own RSS feeds and create custom pages for your website at KickRSS.com

Chicago News and Related Topics

Monday, March 5th, 2007

You can get the latest news related to the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago Bears, as well as other topics related to the Chicago area on this page. Below are featured RSS feeds of news content from around the globe. All articles contain the term “Chicago” and they are being displayed on this page as a result of a javascript rss combination that makes it possible. Stay current on all the latest news related to “Chicago.” A big shout out to our Algonquin Chiropractor friends as well as our Bolingbrook Chiropractor friends in Illinois!

Chicago Chiropractor: For information on chiropractors in Chicago check out the NearMe Chiropractic Directory.

Performance is a critical factor in cellular health

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Performance is where it is at. The following topics update several times a day with content related to the term PERFORMANCE. Does not matter whether the performance is good, bad, or ugly, the latest news feeds will appear below…

Headaches in the News

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Latest news topics including the term “headaches” within content. This does not mean that the content will read… “I have such an aching headache.” It could instead read… “405 Freeway backup leads to major headaches for commuters.” Get the topics here…

90026 in the news

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Latest news topics including the term “90026″ from google news…