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Hi all, here is a topic that I have wanted to write about for ages and I know that others will be in the same position as me. Sometimes moral support is the name of these blogs and I know that others will understand what I mean when they read on. So just briefly; I run a small business that employs about thirty staff, for one reason or another there seems to be a reasonably high tur...
Search engines reps have been calling out web spam individually on their sites for some time. Tim Converse used to do it. Matt Cutts has done it plenty of ...
Web 2.0 is a buzz word like no other – many people aren't sure what it means, and a lot of people are struggling to work out how it can be used by more ‘normal’ businesses. But as a publishing company there is one particular aspect of Web 2.0 which offers RBI great opportunities, and that is the sites that come under the broad heading of social media....
A very interesting thing happened to my website after something as "simple" as a server upgrade. On Saturday we upgraded our primary web server to PHP5 and MySQL5. Everything went ok except for a couple phpbb and oscommerce installations.One of these oscommerce installations that went awry was www.footbagshop.com. I spen...
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This morning I spent a half hour interviewing Danny Sullivan about the upcoming Search Marketing Expo in Seattle on June 4 and 5. We hashed through quite a bit of material and I learned a great deal about what the goals of the conference will be, who the target audience is and why there are so many changes from his successful SES conf...
Today I'm very proud to announce that the Illustrated Guide to Search Friendliness is finally complete. I've personally been working on it for over a month - completely writing it from scratch and doing all the designs and illustrations, too. I'm incredibly happy with the results, and I think you will be, too. This guide is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable documents SEOmoz has ever prod...
Yesterday, one of the most popular web design portals, AListApart, unveiled their latest project - a survey for web designers and developers. Here's their pitch: People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are ou...
One-half of my formal education is marketing, not advertising, marketing -- number crunching, customer segmentation marketing. I've lost c...
Thanks a lot, Rand. Your "Make Stephen Colbert the Greatest Living American" contest resulted in over 150 comments and nearly 50 submissions. I had to spend nearly a week toiling over each link in order to crown the winner. (Okay, I spent about twenty minutes going through them,...
While Rebecca and I were in New York this past week, we sat down with Michael McDonald of WebProNews to discuss some social media issues. While Rebecca is upset that she has a large strand of hair partially covering her face, and I'm amused at the awful look on my face in the embedded player, we didn't come across too badly on the film so we decided to post it here.
Rand just wrote a post called "The Search Engines' Semantic Analysis Capabilities" which a wonderfuly informative article about, in essense, how search engines know about words and find out how they are used. He stated that perhaps this information can be used in SEO.I would have called this article "Google knows Pooploads of Stuff About How People Use Words&qu...
There are few things Web departments in big companies don’t understand. Let’s face it, large companies have full-size IT groups driving everything from backbone to extranet. So how can you win a web site deal from a big company? There two things that web dev teams in IT departments don’t yet understand. Social Media Sites and Web 2.0 Mashups. ...
Steve Rubel came back to blog just in time, showcasing this brilliant report from Forrester Research - Social Technographics. The graphic he highlights is incredibly revealing on its own: ...
I veered left, but it was too late. A wall of fire sprang up in front of me, blocking my path. I turned around and there he was: Googlebot, my old nemesis and lord of the search underworld. Even as the flames engulfed me, damning me to supplemental hell, his cold, metallic laugh froze me to my very soul…...