Archive for the ‘SEM’ Category
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
If you don't know who Michael Martinez is, he's one of the best people writing about SEO right now at his blog, SEO Theory. Today he takes a look at the SEO business, and where things are headed for some companies.
But mostly, I enjoyed his take on the SEO ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
There's one very frustrating problem with researching search terms. All of the keyword tools show an estimate of how many searches a term gets, but the numbers are by no means accurate. If you need to determine the popularity of a search term, you are basically on your ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
It's nice to see traffic hitting on all cylinders again as people return from their holidays. It has been a slow time for the last few weeks, with many internet segments low in traffic. But it appears things are getting back to normal, and the year 2008 is ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Now is the time to check all of your websites again. Why not? Chances are you have to change the copyright notice to 2008 anyway. So you might as well dig deeper and look for any mistakes you may have in your website. Plus, now is ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
I've been reading SEO discussions online for at least 4 years and I have to say the current conversation is quite, quite dull. The primary conversations are now repeating themselves, as very little new or interesting is being said about the subject. It's not hard to understand why. ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Web directories have taken a lot of crap in recent months and years, and most of the criticism is unfounded. The issue of "selling links" has been made paramount by a mounting dis-information campaign that is not in the best interests of most webmasters. Contrary to public opinion, ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Most people nowadays have heard about how important search engines are, so naturally they're very interested in attaining a better search engine rank. In fact, so many people are working on the same goal, that landing a better search engine rank can be quite a chore. Most people ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
The domination of WikiPedia is now complete. A search for the term SEO at Google today shows sub-pages from WikiPedia in both the first and the fifth position. If that isn't a prime example of what actually "works" in Google these days, I don't know what is.
WikiPedia has ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Okay, I have to admit I'm still cracking up about the "DoFollow" movement. I hadn't paid any attention to the issue. As far as I was concerned, the nofollow tag, as it related to blog comments made complete success. People who comment in your blog should do ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
As a webmaster, there will be times you need to know the status of a header response. In particular, you may need to know if a certain page is 404 or a 301. Hell, if you know the difference between those two status codes you're now doing better ...
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