A Little Favicon Goes a Long, Long Way
I remember when favicons first started to appear, it was like, hey, how cool is that. But now they are so common that I hardly notice them anymore. Well, no, […]
Web Developers: Please Stop Using the Hx Tag as a Design Element
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of sites where the designers were a bit lazy on the coding of the visual elements. Especially when it comes to creating new styles […]
Top 10 Most Useful Open Source / Free Software Programs
Buying software is so 1999. I mean seriously, who wants to buck up and spend upwards of $500 on an office suite when you have bills to pay and lattes […]
Matt Cutts – Three Steps To A Great Site With Great Traffic
There’s a great discussion started by Michael Dorausch regarding Matt Cutts’ three steps process to build a site and get a ton of traffic. Michael transcribed and organized Matt Cutts’ […]
SEO Title Tags for WordPress
In the web development world, the popularity of WordPress as an opensource blog manager / CMS has been exponential. As an SEO, I see this as a great opportunity to […]
Is Seomoz Going to Borrow From the Affiliate Playbook?
If you’re like me, (and for your sake I hope you’re not even close) you love the internet in a totally unnatural way. You live it and breathe it. It’s […]
Search Engine Strategies – San Jose – Day 1
I have survived Day 1 of the Search Engine Strategies 2007 conference … albeit on information overload. It isn’t really that there was so much information that it was overwhelming. […]
To your users, "Road Closed" is just another way to say you don’t care
Last week, while driving to work I completely lost my way. For about 10 minutes I had no idea how to get here, I was supremely frustrated and I feared […]
Surviving Personalized Search: A Guide for SEO’s
There is a great deal of talk within the search marketing world concerning the future introduction of personalization factors into search as a way to improve SERPS relevancy. Many regard […]
RGB in SEO
Color psychology is an area of research which explores how colors affect human emotions and behavior. The direct applicability of this information to professional marketing has long been known and […]
Webmaster Guidelines & the 4 Faces of "Random Surfer"
I was recently browsing the web for new information on website quality evaluation when I stumbled across Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. While lightly perusing the guidelines for any updates, I thought […]
PubCon '06: CSS & HTML Coding Today
While this session was largely dominated by Daniel Goldman’s Opera discussion (which was marked with many mysterious references to the Nintendo Wii, or more specifically the Opera Browser contained therein), […]
PubCon '06: SEO & Big Search
To insure that we got the most out of PubCon, our fearless leader assigned sessions to each team member. My first session was SEO & Big Search, moderated by Jake […]
PPM Re-Design and New Tag Line
Over the last several weeks I’ve been working on a new version of our website and was able to finally rolled it out. Its not a complete re-design, just a […]
More Logo Madness
While the debate on the Grand Sierra Resort logo has been raging, one commenter was kind enough to point out that this blog might have its own logo issues. I […]