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Interview with Lynsey Little from Distilled
Our industry’s conferences are a lot of fun, and of course educational. In the past few years several companies, like Distilled, have been offering smaller conferences which allow attendees to get to know each other better and have more contact with experts in the field. Distilled has been offering conferences for the past three years. [...]
Friday Humor: Game of Thrones
Since HBO took the Game of Thrones books and created a fantastic show the books and the series have taken off. The show is great and the books are fantastic! I have collected some funny Game of Thrones items for fans everywhere. Oh and remember, Winter is Coming! Are you ready? Disclaimer – If you [...]
Where Our Social Media Efforts Are Best Served
For many small businesses, their ability to make a profit or keep their heads just above water hinges on being able to successfully promote their companies. In today’s day and age, part of those promotional efforts revolve around social media and the ability to interact with both current and potential customers. As many of us [...]
Twitter Supports Do Not Track Privacy Feature
Ed Felten, the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technology officer, recently announced that Twitter is now providing support for the Do Not Track feature. The feature, which was initially proposed by researchers in 2009, was first implemented by Mozilla Firefox in early 2011. Since that time, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera have all added support and [...]
A Broader View of Link Building
I once read a provocative question by Eric Ward (that I will paraphrase): “If the search engines went away tomorrow, how would anyone find your website?” Now, you might say, “That is a big ‘IF’- Google isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.” Then again, if you were hit by one of the recent algorithm changes, Google [...]
Penguin or Panda? How To Determine Which Google Algorithm Update Impacted Your Website
Ever since Google rolled out Penguin 1.0 on April 24th, I’ve been heavily analyzing websites that were hit by the update (I’ve now analyzed close to 75 websites hit by Penguin). Based on my analysis, I have written several posts covering my findings. In my latest post, An Update from the Over Optimization Front Lines, [...]
SEO in 2012: The Best of Times or the Worst of Times?
I don’t like trying to package everything that’s happening in our industry into a neat little box, because it’s like trying to describe the cause of the Civil War in two sentences. I’m likely to leave some things out, overstate some factors, and unintentionally offend some people. But I do think that an individual perspective [...]