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Web Sites, E-mail & Consistency - Oh My!
Monday, May 26th, 2008I was reading a magazine today and in many ads, service providers were listing both web sites and e-mail addresses for contacts. Great, huh? Small local landscape architecture firms, promoting themselves and doing the right thing!
Actually, there was one small hitch: A lot of these places/people would have their fancy business URL, then be listing [...]
Even So… Live Search is Still Stinky
Friday, February 1st, 2008Rumor is now in the universe that MSN Search is recognizing 301 Redirects.
I will believe it when I see it occur. I am watching about 10 sites to see if it picks up. Even when it does, it will not remove my general belief that MSN Search is stinky.
Age, Reason & SEO Strategy
Monday, September 17th, 2007Many people think ‘age of domain’ is the key to traffic. If only it were so easy…
Helpful Domain Tip
Monday, July 2nd, 2007If you’re out registering a dot-com domain, and an available domain seems too good to be true here in 2007, go see if it has any residual inbound links (use Yahoo!) or a history over at archive.org.
If you get a really coherent domain name, chances are it’s been used before. Now, sometimes you’ll be fine. [...]
Directories & The Sniff Test
Friday, June 22nd, 2007I think any reasonably competent SEO has the good sense on how to tell if a directory is ‘good’ or ‘eh.’
Unfortunately, many of our clients, let alone non-clients who think they can’t afford SEO advice, don’t have the well-honed sense of smell. Nor should they be expected to — one of the advantages for a [...]
Self-Consciousness & SEO
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007…or, “Just use the internet to do illegal downloads and porn like the rest of us,” says my pal Jawa.
Being an SEO means being self-conscious about your own actions and the actions of others on the Internet. At least it does for me, possibly because it’s semi-universal, or possibly because I am a freak with [...]
Website Magazine Gets it Wrong
Thursday, June 7th, 2007While traveling to Sea-Tac Airport today with the wonderful Ms. Christy Arneson-Jones, I started reading my free copy of Website Magazine. In their feature, “Five Steps to Outsourcing Search Marketing,” they recommend educating oneself. They included a handy quick quiz to determine what one might know right now.
Question #2 prompted a snort of derision from [...]
Out at SMX
Monday, June 4th, 2007I’m at SMX in Seattle this week, experiencing the magic of the Seattle weather and the oddities of my laptop’s battery. A few things I will expound on during my free time later:
why this conference’s food is currently winning the ‘conference prize’ for the recent past, excepting that of the MIMA Summit
Supplemental index
Duplicate content
Kneeling down [...]
Character Traits of SEO Pros
Monday, April 2nd, 2007It’s hiring time again. Interviewing candidates always gets me thinking about what traits make for a top SEO practitioner, or someone who could become a top SEO practitioner, given several hundred sites to work on.
This is a really brief list, relative to what’s in my head:
Ability to understand human behavior and psychology — both from [...]
Six Stupid Domain Tricks
Friday, March 16th, 2007Here are six odd domain strategies I would like to advise all builders of Web marketing plans to avoid:
I will buy 75 domains and build sites on all of them so I can dominate the first 7 pages of Google/Yahoo/MSN/my mom’s bookmark list.
I bought 75 domains, and I am using 74 of them to frame-in [...]
