SEO vs. Conversion Debate Shouldn't Exist
Michael Nguyen, whose Social Patterns blog often has cool stuff, wrote an entry last week that made me wonder about som continuing myths in SEO: Before optimization a site is converting about ...
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Visitors Judge a Site in 1/20th of a Second
Just saw this article at Nature about how visitors to a website can form an impression about it in just 50 milliseconds. We all think that content is important but this article argues that ...
Updating a Logo
I noticed a highly linked-to post on Fizbang web design that covered how to re-touch and update a logo. Interestingly enough, Matt just re-made the logo for SEOmoz (for our new business cards and new website - on its way). Check out a walkthrough: ...
Good Points in Designers vs. SEOs Thread
Good thread today at SEW on the subject of the Flash-designer portfolio set of web developers and their feelings on SEO. Glengara starts things off: I started a thread on whether all-Flash sites should be used in the commercial web, (my premise being that using Fla...
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Reading Blogs via RSS
I've got almost 50 blogs I like to read every day and another 100 or so that I like to see at least once a week. But, I'm sorely behind the times. I actually go and visit every blog in my browser to get the content, rather than using a feedreader. Why? Because I can't find a reader that I like... I've tried several (bloglines, google's web version, start.com) and never been satisfied. A...
Cozy vs. Sterile Design
JewelryJean at cre8asite is asking about choosing between "homespun" design that is more cozy vs. a more sterile, professional design. The crowd jumps in with some terrific advice and points to a few resources that help provide evidence for the argument that profe...
Yes, Virginia, Design can be Link Bait, too
I've struggled for a while trying to find this URL, that I was sure I emailed myself and sure enough, there it was, right in the email, getting overlooked the last 50 times I searched for it. But, my own tagging problems aside, this site, ...
E-Commerce Done Right at Design Public
I visited Design Public, an online furniture & gift store, on a whim last night. Low and behold, I've discovered that their online presence is doing literally everything right... Well written Title Ta...
Open-Source Full Text Editor for Content Applications
I've been using KTML and Matt's home-written code for a while now with SEOmoz, but I'm thinking of making the switch to FCKEditor. The name reminds me of the London fashion firm - French Connection United Kingdom (FCUK), but it's actually a good-looking system. You can try it for free on this page and download the installation sof...
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Click tracking tools 101
Both Rand and Egol have recently discussed about MyBlogLog, and I am about to joing the group. I admit that MyBlogLog is nice tool, but for professional marketing specialist there are loads of similar, or even more advanced tools avai...
Dilbert on User Interface Design
Scottie Claiborne, who co-authors the hilarious ISOS blog and who bought me lunch on her last trip into Seattle, delivers this stellar ...
Alternative Web Page Editors
I've noticed Bluefish getting a lot of attention lately, particularly in light of Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia and the proposed combination of the two most popular editors in the marketplace today - Dreamweaver (which...
Debating the Value of Outbound Links
Over at Sitepoint forums, Aspen (a very well-respected and knowledgable member of their community) disagrees with me on whether outbound links on a web page can affect your rankings at the search engines. My views: "I believe that search...
The Importance of an About Page
Kim's got a terrific thread going at Cre8asite on the importance of "about us" or "about me" pages. She starts by pointing to Andy Beal's ...