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29 Nov This post is from from my other blog here I’ve been a Microsoft Action Pack subscriber for years, and I was dismayed to hear that they were going to be requiring any proficiency test for 2008. Not because I was afraid I couldn’t pass it (which I couldn’t without studying) but because it was a huge inconvenience and time sucker. I had already resigned myself to the fact that I just wasn’t going to be renewing for 2008, and I was just going to buy the necessary software that I needed. In fact I was considering giving up office altogether and favor of Google Docs. About 10 days ago I got ...
28 Nov This post is from from my other blog here Am I the only person that didn’t know this? I just “accidentally” discovered that an entire website wasn’t ranked for ANYTHING in MSN. They had #1 ranking for the primary phrase in Google and Yahoo, yet could not be found anywhere in the top 200 results on MSN. After scrolling through 5 pages of SERPS, I guessed that it just wasn’t in the index, but I was wrong… It was in the index alright, but only one page for the domain name, which was 301 redirected at the root. When I did a site search in Live, I was greeted with ...
26 Nov This post is from from my other blog here I was packing this afternoon for my trip to Los Angeles for the local search engine strategies conference, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t even planned out my session attendance for either one. It only took me a minute at the SES website, because without multiple tracks, there wasn’t much to choose from. It’s a show focusing on local search though, so I expect to learn a lot about an area I’m not really that strong in, and where there have been a lot of innovations. On the other hand, PubCon hasd a lot to choose from, so planning ahead ...
26 Nov This post is from from my other blog here There’s an online community of search engine marketers called Gooruze that’s picking up steam, and I’ve been lurking there quietly for the past month or so. The information available there is phenomenal, and I strongly recommend a visit, and signing up for this free community. There are great areas for beginners to get a lot of advice, but I’ve read some pretty good tips from people sharing some seriously helpful information that’s far beyond what I’d call “basic”. Members can do lots of things, like ask questions, answer questions, write articles, rate, vote & comment on the articles of others, or even ...
21 Nov This post is from from my other blog here I recently began offering free site review videos for sites willing to share their information with others. Typically these will be nonprofit organizations, but since the review is based on my own SEO 101 - search engine fundamentals, some businesses may decide that sharing the knowledge is worth saving the money they might spend on a private site review. The first complimentary review goes to the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Vancouver British Columbia, and you can get a look at what I told them in a 12 1/2 minute video here. If you’re willing to share your information with others, you can ...
20 Nov This post is from from my other blog here How lame is it that Microsoft chose “Party like a rock star” as the theme of their Webmaster World party this year? Shoemoney (Jeremy Shoemaker) ran a contest he called, “Party like a rock star” paying the airfare, hotel bill, conference admission, and %400 cash for one lucky winner, and he got quite a few entries, quite a bit of blog buzz, and created a pretty good thing, in my opinion. (Yesterday he announced his winner, which was Laura Martin) Just now via e-mail I got an invitation (exclusive, no doubt
18 Nov This post is from from my other blog here I’m pulling the trigger on something I haven’t had the guts to do before, but it’s long overdue. After nearly 3 years, I’m changing the permalink structure on my blog, although it’s not for the reasons you might think. Besides search engine visibility, the more realistic answer is simple “user-friendliness”. People really aren’t that much different than search engine spiders when it comes to determining the relevancy of a link. Another reason is that someone sent me an e-mail recently asking me if I’m such an expert, why aren’t my own permalinks optimized for best performance. Well that person had ...
10 Nov This post is from from my other blog here I just got done smacking myself in the head lamenting all the time I’ve wasted since this thing came out in September 2006. How often do you have to open multiple browser windows? Do you go through the process of opening “site a”, “page b”, “site c”, “page d” etc. very often? Well I do. Perhaps it’s for monthly online financial obligations, or your company payroll, or even checking several entertainment venues for events. For me, it’s a near daily occurrence for domain research, and at the end of the month, it happens non stop for days. When we do end of month ...
08 Nov This post is from from my other blog here I came across a Wordpress plug-in called FAQ-Tastic , which allows users to submit questions to your website, and I’ve added it here. You can create categories of questions, and even have different forms for people to ask questions about different subjects, with no apparent limit. Upon submitting those questions, they receive an e-mail with your customized message, and view as the administrator of the blog receive an e-mail as well, notifying you that there are new questions to be answered. Once you answer the question, they receive an e-mail thanking them, and providing them with a link to the new page where ...
05 Nov This post is from from my other blog here Nearly a year and a half ago I mentioned the Google phone was coming, and to everyone’s surprise, it has taken incredibly long. There’s been a lot of speculation in the industry over the past few weeks that it’s coming any time now, and it looks like the day is almost here. I’ve been putting off buying a new phone for quite awhile now. I’m relatively happy with my Blackberry, but when the iPhone came out, I was pretty floored by some of the capabilities. Zooming in on Google maps is highly cool, but its lack of a tactile keyboard kept ...
02 Nov This post is from from my other blog here I get a lot of e-mails asking questions, and I frequently turn my replies into articles. That’s actually how my SEO 101 section came about long ago. Replying can be quite time consuming, but not replying might be seen as rude, so I’ve now come up with a great compromise that adds a sort of “Web 2.0″ aspect to my site, and helps me easily generate new content. Since I had this idea, I’ve been playing with a certain plug-in for a long time, and just today decided to buckle down and make it work. If you look over to the left ...
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