Archive for the ‘SEM’ Category

SEOs A Bunch Of Drunken Wahoos?

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 ...

Determining Popularity Of Search Terms

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 ...

Traffic Restoring From Holiday Lows

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 ...

The New Year Is A Good Time For Web Maintenance

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 ...

Same Old Crap Dominates SEO Conversations

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. ...

Web Directories Still Ruling Internet

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, ...

Better Search Engine Rank

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 ...

WikiPedia Number One And Five For SEO

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 ...

The DoFollow Movement - The Dumbest Idea I Heard All Day

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 ...

Check Website Server Headers

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 ...