SEM Companies Advertising Themselves Locally… Where Old School Meets New School
The majority of us SEM/SEO companies are on the smaller side. Not only do we need to market our clients, but we obviously also need to market ourselves. A good […]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Leading Your Team: Lay Out the Rewards
People are motivated more by what they receive than by what they give. Sure, many people have giving spirits and want to contribute positively to society, but when it comes […]
When are Session IDs Appropriate
When are session IDs appropriate for a search engine friendly website? The quick answer to that is… wait for it… NEVER! When you require session IDs to be assigned to […]
Leading Your Team: Believe in Them
There is no greater boss than one who believes in his team members. Sometimes that’s harder said than done! After all, the boss got where they are because the know […]
SEO Quick Tip: Proper Use of Flash
All-Flash Websites All-flash sites are generally ineffective at achieving top placement (with a few exceptions). While search engines are getting better about reading the text inside flash files, flash websites […]
Dare to Dream… Then Do It
Dare to Dream… Then Do It What Successful People Know and Do Authors: John C. Maxwell Hardcover: 120 pages, $9.74 Published: April, 2006 I’ve read some of Maxwell’s other books […]
SES San Jose 2006
Well the Search Engine Strategies Conference is just around the corner. So which of you SEM people out there are attending? Word has it that the San Jose Conference is […]
adCenter Sucks… No, it Really Does
I’m starting to wonder, is there ANYONE out there that has had a positive experience with the relatively new MSN adCenter? I personally am starting to wonder if it is […]
Yahoo Update for the 13th of July
According to Rajat Mukherjee a new index update was performed starting the night of the 13th. This would explain the great improvement in Yahoo rankings with almost all our clients. […]
Lessons from Vacation: Museum of Flight
Today we visited the Museum of Flight in Seattle. There is lots of cool stuff including an out of commission Concord jet (they’re all out of commission since 1993) and […]
NO ODP II!
It wasn’t long ago that MSN created a new meta tag to allow site owners to opt out of the search engine using ODP (a.k.a. DMOZ) descriptions in the search […]
The Future of Linking?
Here is one well thought-out opinion on the future of linking. Linking has changed dramatically for many in the industry, but that’s just like any form of marketing; the goals […]
I Know What You Know, I Feel What You Feel
The title, of course, is take from Star Trek. It’s one of the chants during a Vulcan Mind Meld. What does that have to do with anything I’ve got to […]
Proper Hx Heading Use
It used to be that the use of headings played a significant role in the on-page optimization. While the value of on-page headings is probably not what they used to […]
Do You Really Want to Know What They're Saying About You?
There are two camps of people, those that don’t want to know what others are saying about them and those that want to know everything anyone is saying about them. […]