I recently subscribed to a satellite tv package when I upgraded my DSL account — and I instantly got hooked on that adorable Animal Planet show “Meerkat Manor.” Just in time for the season ending. 
Then I started watching Orangutan … Read the rest »
Forums (or Fora, for you Latin geeks)
December 2, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Bad Hosting Costs $$ and Wastes Time
October 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Poor hosting companies waste time and cost money.
I needed to set up a MySQL database for a client recently. The client hosts their website with a large and well-known hosting company, which advertises MySQL available with all hosting packages. … Read the rest »
Correcting Bad Information
October 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The amount of misinformation out there on the web is almost enough to make a person crazy. I ran across a few statements today that were so baldly wrong that I have to correct them here. … Read the rest »
“Crawlability,” Web Design, and SEO
September 26, 2007 By 3 Comments
So I got a gentle tweak from Zack Katkin at Unique ID Web Design because I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been busy working on projects for clients, but I know that’s no excuse. I’m breaking the Golden Rule … Read the rest »
No NoFollow, NoSnitching
April 25, 2007 By 4 Comments
The infamous Google spam czar Matt Cutts has fired another round at honest webmasters just trying to go about their daily work. In a recent blog post, He invited readers to report web sites buying or selling links that are … Read the rest »
Eight Tips Every AdWords Advertiser Should Know
April 13, 2007 By 6 Comments
1. Multiple Campaigns
First thing: You want to create multiple campaigns, with each campaign focused around a particular product, category or topic. For example, you could create Campaign A for Product A, Campaign B for Product B, and so forth. … Read the rest »
Pre-Launch Steps for Your Site
March 20, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Does your host or website developer do these things?
Developing a new web site — or re-developing an old one, for that matter — typically involves consulting with the client to determine the site’s target audience and primary objective, creating … Read the rest »
A Search Engine Experiment
March 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I noticed that my web site development site got a visit by someone who found it in a search for “hank hill quotations.” I haven’t put any effort at all into optimizing the site for that search term, … Read the rest »
Don’t judge a book by its pretty face
February 3, 2007 By 1 Comment
I’ve never liked to use the term “web site designer” in reference to what I do. Yes, I “design” web sites, but the word design seems to suggest, to many people, strictly “visual design.” I tend to prefer developer, because … Read the rest »
Do you own the #1 SERP for your domain name?
February 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Many, many computer users use “search” exclusively as their primary means of navigation. What I mean by this is that a user, let’s call her Pam, wants to go to a particular web site that she knows of and is … Read the rest »
Dumb Error Messages
January 23, 2007 By 1 Comment
Microsoft is the master, but many, many programmers and software development companies are guilty. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had the most meaningless error messages pop up on my computer screen.
What set me off this morning? … Read the rest »
Can your site be tweaked?
January 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Many of my clients already have an existing web site when they contact me. Often they’re unhappy with their site’s visual design, or its functionality, or its performance in the search engines. I hate — I really hate — telling … Read the rest »
The Infamous Canonical URL Issue
January 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Difficult as it may be to believe, but by January of 2007, Google is still unable to recognize when URLs that obviously lead to the same page are in fact the same page. So what’s a URL, and what’s the … Read the rest »
Top Ten Easiest Code Tweaks To Improve Your Site’s Search Engine Performance
January 17, 2007 By 1 Comment
Boxing the Sandbox
January 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Is there a sandbox or is there not? Is the question purely one of semantics? Let’s see what Googler Matt Cutts actually had to say: … Read the rest »
SEO Hacking for Fun and Profit
January 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Timing is everything. I launched this blog on Jan. 11. On about the 15th, some crazy hacker started hitting SEO-related blogs, using a security vulnerability discovered in the WordPress blog software. Just my luck. The story of my life. … Read the rest »
Choosing a domain name
January 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
You’ve decided your business needs a web site. Good, that’s the first step. You have a lot of additional steps to get through before you actually have a web site. One of those steps is selecting a domain name for … Read the rest »
Linkbait: What is it?
January 17, 2007 By 1 Comment
Web sites need inbound links to do well in search engines. One-way, unpaid-for links are clearly the types of links the search engines prefer. How does one go about getting such links? … Read the rest »
On-page SEO: What matters, what doesn’t
January 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
My quick rundown:
Title tag: Yes, this one’s a biggie. All indications are that the title of the page matters a lot to Google and the other SEs. Every page on a web site should have well-written title that accurately … Read the rest »
Google Maps
January 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday I sniped at Google with my No NoFollow post, but today I’m here to praise Google. The technology that powers Google Maps is so very cool, and the very best thing about it, in my opinion, is that Google … Read the rest »
