Revisiting Web Standards and Your Website: Opportunities & Challenges
A colleague recently lent me an awesome book about web standards, a fairly famous one, called Designing with Web Standards By Jeffery Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte. It is not your usual techy read, it makes a good case for the importance of web standards generally, addressing important counterpoints such as why are web standards still […]
- 01-06-2012
- Search Engine Optimization, .Tips and Tricks, Website Usability
What Your SEO Wants For Christmas
Sometimes it’s nice to give a little holiday recognition to the people who work for you. Whether it’s a Whitman’s sampler for the Mailman or a greeting card for your family dentist, it’s just a little something to spread the merriment. Well… if you’re thinking of bestowing a gift on your SEO, I’d like to […]
- 12-22-2011
- Search Engine Optimization
Online Video Optimization
Written By, Usability Ninja Karina As the technology of the web advances, online videos are growing in popularity, thus an increased importance is placed on video optimization. Getting your videos to rank well in a search engine will bring your website more visibility. You should think of video as content. We all know that “Content […]
- 09-27-2011
- Search Engine Optimization, Tips and Tricks
Nature vs. Nurture – Old Sites, Exact Matches, Branded Sites, and You
Nature vs. Nurture, it has been argued in the liberal arts since the 1800’s: are we defined by some inherent features of our being or are we a product of our environment. Can a new website out rank an aged website? Can you beat that exact match site that just won’t budge? Can a non-branded […]
- 08-14-2011
- Search Engine Optimization
The SEO Mirror Test – Is Your Website Really Breathing??
A while ago, while on a flight somewhere, I forget where now, I picked up a book titled The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing by Jeffery W. Hayzlett. You know those little airport micro bookstores where you try to kill part of your 3 hour layover, yeah, one of those. This particular book […]
- 06-27-2011
- Google, .Search Engine Optimization, Tips and Tricks
A short and sweet list of some of my fav free SEO tools
my favorite, absolute FAVORITE, free SEO tools , web design tools, and something for my affiliate people
- 01-26-2011
- Search Engine Optimization
The Blekko SEO Guide You’ve Been Waiting To Read
It’s a funny time to let your search engine loose for public beta, right when another one, cuil, shuts down its servers.
- 11-07-2010
- Search Engine Optimization
What’s Google Suggest Telling You About Your Site – What are You Doing About It?
Google Suggust: you love it or hate it. In this post, I talk about the role Google Suggest plays in reputation management and what you can do about it. I also talk about how to use it for keyword research, and I share what I think the four best tools are to take advantage of what Google Suggest offers.
- 10-28-2010
- Search Engine Optimization
ThinkTank 2010 today – SEO Octoberfest Monday
Had a few last minute travel changes….looks like I’m heading to ThinkTank 2010 today! We Build Pages is also helping to sponsor this conference by picking up the bar tab the entire time….looking forward to having drinks with: dk, John Chow, Andy Liu, Stephan Spencer, Peter Askew, Eric Enge, Jonathan Volk, Tim Ash, and so […]
- 09-16-2010
- Search Engine Optimization
Internet Archive Wayback Machine appears to be updating!
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is starting to update and they are expecting a bulk update – read all about it.
- 07-15-2010
- Search Engine Optimization
