PubCon Vegas 2011: Ninjas on The Strip
About this time next week, a herd of Ninjas will be descending on Las Vegas. We’re not to going to try to stamp out sin and debauchery, we’re good with that. Nope, we’ll be in town as a Gold Sponsor for PubCon Vegas. Jim’s been a regular speaker at PubCon events and a PubCon advisor […]
- 10-31-2011
- Fun Stuff
To Russia, With PowerPoints
Ok, so technically it’s not Russia, it’s the Ukraine, but nonetheless this is gonna be a big week for Internet Marketing Ninjas. Tomorrow afternoon Jim’s heading out with Melissa, our social media director, for Kharkov, Ukraine. And no, it’s not because of a wicked craving for borscht, they’re both presenting at Optimization 2011; the “All-Ukrainian […]
- 10-11-2011
- Fun Stuff, Internet Marketing Ninjas
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
‘Til Yahoo Takes Our Back Links Away
If you’ve been visiting here for a while, you know that here at We Build Pages we have a long tradition of setting our geekiness to music. That is, re- writing popular songs to be about SEO and link building. In honor of the impending phase out of the “link domain” command in Yahoo, we […]
- 08-03-2011
- Fun Stuff
A Ninja Home-Coming
For some people, moving home at 31, might be an indication that life… isn’t going so well. In my case it’s actually kind of the opposite. Because for me, home is WeBuildPages. 6 Years ago, I had never even heard the words “Search Engine Optimization”. I certainly had no knowledge of the power of links […]
- 08-01-2011
- Internet Marketing Ninjas
When Is Fixing Duplicate Content Issues Really Worth My Time ?
Duplicate content is a loaded topic, it comes in so many different styles and flavors. One thing is true though, it sucks fixing these issues more often than not! (very rarely is it as easy as tucking something behind a robots.txt exclusion). It takes up your time analyzing, it takes up your developers time, sometimes […]
- 07-28-2011
- Web Content, Website Usability
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
Google Panda Update: Machine Learning and Tree Structures, oh my!
By Ninja Bonnie Machine learning is using a computer to recognize patterns in data, to then make predictions about new data, based on the pattern recognized or learned from prior chosen training datasets. One of the ways that Google uses machine learning algorithms in search is to analyze historical data from the logs they keep […]
- 06-07-2011
Google Panda Update: Your Site is Going to Survive (funny)
I was on my way home tonight listening to an old mix CD I have when I heard an old Hank Williams Jr song called “Country Boy Can Survive.”…. and since my mind is so immersed in this Google Panda Update…I started playing with the lyrics for fun… I ended up reworking the lyrics…and it […]
- 05-26-2011
- Google, Panda Update
