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Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be headed over to the Grand Sierra Resort here in Reno, NV to participate in the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference. I’ll be a judge for the Web Site Design Team. Yeah, I know, I’m not a designer, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to provide a good perspective from my knowledge of website usability.

The event will be held between 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM. Lucky for me lunch is provided!

But that’s not all.

On Thursday I’ll be judging the Small Business Management Team, also between 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM. I tend to think ...

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Over the next few weeks we’ll be in the process of rolling out some pretty significant changes. First, I’ve been named Pimp McFly Associate Editor at Search Engine Guide. What this means exactly, I still haven’t been told. But I think it has something to do with blogging.

So seeing that I’ll be doing 90% of my blogging over there, we are going to change our focus over here at EMP. A new design has been in the works for the past couple of weeks and we hope to have that rolled out shortly. With the new design we’ll be ...

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I like to think of myself as a loyal customer. If I find a good product or service, I’ll evangelize it to death to anybody I know. While I’ve been happy with DirecTV for many years, over the past few months they are not showing me any love. In fact, I feel like I’m “old news” to them and I can be tossed in favor of someone new. For the first time in years, I’m exploring my options in cable/satellite providers.

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I’ve just been tapped to conduct a webinar for the fine folks at SEMpdx. It’s an hour long webinar focused on website architecture, titled Secrets to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website.

I’ll be covering:

• Domain & URL Structure
• Page & Code Structure
• Link Structure

The webinar will be held Thursday, May 22 from 10 AM PST. Click here to register and let me know that you’ll be attending via comments below.

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Google April: 51.25% March: 51.70% Change: -.45

January 2008: 52.14% Change: -0.89

Yahoo April: 10.85% March: 10.73% Change: +0.12

January 2008: 10.94% Change: -0.09

MSN April: 5.57% March: 4.31% Change: +1.26

January 2008: 5.78% Change: -0.21

AOL April: 2.07% March: 1.91% Change: +0.16

January 2008: 1.86% Change: +0.21

ASK April: 1.04% March: 1.03% Change: +0.01

January 2008: 1.09% Change: -0.05

Data scoring techniques tend to change over time making past data inaccurate. As always, information here is for entertainment purposes only.

Source: Net Applications

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Aside from the title tag, which isn’t really a part of the visual page, the heading tags can provide both visitors and the search engines significant cues to the importance of your on-page content. There are six different heading tags: H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, and H6. Collectively these are referred to as Hx tags.

The value of the Hx tag is much the same as the value of your main points in an outline for a book or paper. Your outline shows your main topics and sub-topics. These are often then used as section headings in your final draft. Your ...

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