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With the popularity of RSS readers skyrocketing (particularly in tech-savvy fields like SEO and webdev), writers in these arenas are realizing how critical it is to have compelling titles and a great first few lines in order to get the RSS subscribers to click-through to the site. This morning, Donna identified one terrific metho...
Barry's rounded up the crew for yet another great question asked to the moderators at SERoundtable. This one focuses oin alternative search engines (and the engines moderators use in their personal lives - I'm a tad confused as to what that means... "personal life?"). Viggen asks: ...
If you're thinking about putting together a pure CSS driven site and need inspiration, I've compiled a short list of my favorite CSS showcases. I use these sites not only to inspire visual ideas, but also to learn more creative and practical ways to use CSS. I often find myself digging through source code of sites in the showcases discovering good (and bad) CSS ...
This morning, Conde Nast "launched" Brides.com, a new portal that combines content from Brides, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride magazine (why a once-in-a-lifetime event has three monthly magazines from one publisher is beyond me, but most thing wedding-related are). ...
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Quick one - Visits vs. Visitors is a great piece on why the first matters more than you might think and why the second is less accurate than you might presume. Good read: Here are my top reasons for using visits:1) Visits are more accurate than Unique ...
WeeWorld launched their new website yesterday and it's got a cool feature that's virtually unused called "...
So Matt's comments yesterday (he didn't pay me for a link, so I'm afraid I can't give one out) set off a treasure trove of commentary about the use of paid links. Matt's contention: Yes, if you sell links, you should mark them with the nofollow tag. Not doing so can affect your reputation in Google. Let me...
I had a chat late last night with Gary Price of ResourceShelf. He shared some sites that provide information that will make your spine shiver and your blood turn cold. Just look at what's available: First off, there's the relatively innocuous, but fun, FlightAware, which enables you to track the comings and ...
I couldn't find a good recipe for Chinese Beef & Broccoli at Epicurious this weekend, so I headed to Google, where, lo and behold, they have what appears to be another new feature - query refinement via recipes. I may have just been busy when the search blogs reported on this, but I can't seem to find it in archives at SEW or SERoundtable, either, so maybe it is new. Screenshot below for &q...
Fred Wilson, a managing partner at two VC firms in New York, had a highly touted post on his favorite business model that a lot of SEOs and Internet marketers will be able to identify with: Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, a...
So SEW (and several other folks) pointed to a study today from Comscore & Google that shows a very high percentage of Internet surfing results in a latent, offline purchase. ...
A little background reading first for those of you who are not familiar with what a Ponzi scheme is.I would assume most of you are doing your daily activities because you want to make some form of money and, you also hope that you'll be able to retire comfortably one day.That's an admirable goal and the Internet has spawned a...
Oftentimes, when I describe the concept of linkbait to clients, it's critical to also describe those folks who are the targets of linkbait - I'll call them the "Linkerati". Let's explore the culture of these most valued of web-dwelling souls: Bloggers - probably the most targetable and directly influenced folks, bloggers are an excellent so...
I know we don't usually cover news that everyone else has, but I couldn't help spreading the word on this band of snakes. From David Wallace: The company in question is Paramount Web Masters (www.paramountwebmasters.com). I'm am not going to link directly to ...