Disasters & Google
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007How long until Google Maps ceases attempting to route people via the I35-W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis?
Submissions: Snake Oil
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007People persist in believing submissions are necessary for the top 4 search engines.
Mythology of Sponsored WordPress Templates
Friday, July 20th, 2007I really don’t believe most WordPress sponsored templates are ranking rockets for the sponsors.
New Webmaster Central Feature
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Google’s Webmaster Central added a feature allowing secured communication between the search giant and webmasters. Neato.
Every Snowflake is Unique. Are You?
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Embrace your unique selling proposition.
Minneapolis Locals: SEO Event 7/11
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007MIMA’s hosting a search event in Minneapolis. Let’s all go.
Flash: It’s Not Just Search
Thursday, July 5th, 2007The Google Webmaster Blog has a post about uses of Flash in Web pages. Naturally, as one might expect from Google, they focus on the ability of Googlebot or other spiders to ’see’ Flash.
Nothing’s wrong with this, mind you. Flash navigation is bad and needs to not exist.
But there are plenty of good reasons to [...]
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 [...]
Google to Build Data Center in Council Bluffs
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Google is building a data center in Council Bluffs.
My mind boggles, given that I went to U of Iowa and had many friends at Iowa State as well. This puts some knowledge-based jobs in Iowa, but leaves them with several issues:
Everyone wants out of Iowa when they’re done being educated.
Council Bluffs is really really a [...]
