Hate ".com"? How About a New, Totally Branded Domain?
Friday, June 27th, 2008Tired of .com, .org, and .net? .biz or .mobi not doing it for you?
“Let a thousand domains flower …”
For 6 figures apiece.
As reported in today’s NY Times, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced yesterday in Paris that it would soon allow companies, organizations, or countries to use new suffixes in their […]
Google Trends for Websites: Where is Blogspot?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land posted about a new development at Google Trends. It has now become a super revved up competitive intelligence tool as well as a keyword trending tool. A search by a domain name will now bring up information about traffic to the site, about sites also visited by those visitors […]
Google Maps Mishap
Friday, May 9th, 2008Since the conception of online mapping and local search websites, incorrect information has been given during a user’s search experiences. We continually rely on technology, but unfortunately, it is not as perfect as we would like. Yet, we find roundabout ways to use it to simplify our lives. In the early days of […]
Cleveland Rocks Google Street View
Monday, March 31st, 2008Cleveland is now getting the Google street view treatment. Below is a screen capture of the areas covered on an overlay of Google Maps.
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It does not make it all the way out to my neighborhood, but many of the local attractions are covered. It is Opening Day, so let’s enjoy one last view of Jacobs […]
Google Universal Search Not Loving Obama Skit?
Friday, February 29th, 2008I watched parts of the Democratic debate from snowy Cleveland last Tuesday. One of the more memorable moments came when Hillary Clinton referred to a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at her opponent. By utilizing my mastery of the power of contextual inference, I could tell the SNL skit made it seem like Obama gets […]
Careless Whispers? The Power of George Michael in Google's Algorithm
Friday, February 29th, 2008 I’m never gonna dance again, but George Michael’s video appears to keep dancing, long after the music stopped.
Wonder what an iconic 80’s song has to do with Google and SEO? Here’s the skinny: I googled 1-f looking for a result from the world of science, and the very first page of my […]
10 Traffic-Stealing Weeds That Suck the Life Out of Your Google Garden and How to Yank Them
Monday, February 18th, 2008Regular evaluation and maintenance of your website’s Google Indexing or “Google Garden” can be an easily overlooked practice by webmasters and SEO’s alike. It is typically not a top priority for optimization if there are other pressing issues at hand, and it also may be deemed that “the more pages you
have indexed in Google, the […]
Google Duped By Massive Comment Tag Stuffing Ploy
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Oh sure, IÂ know Google claims to hate hidden text. And why not, if you try to trick the search engine into giving you a high ranking, they should rightly make a stink about it in their guidelines.
Sometimes guidelines whimper instead of showing their teeth.
We’ve come across a real doozy that shows Google’s vulnerabilities and a […]
Microsoft Seeing Purple?
Friday, February 1st, 2008The news is out that Microsoft seeks to purchase Yahoo! The search engine marketing world is atwitter with the news. Way too soon to weigh in on whom the big winners and losers would be if this transaction actually occurs.
However, it seems that one of the problems Yahoo! has experienced over the last couple of […]
Google Universal Plays Hide & Seek With Navigation
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Google does many things well, one of these things is maintaining a clean user interface. Part of the benefits of this interface is that it allows for very little confusion. It can be frustrating when navigation jumps around and elements appear on some pages and not others. Being the masters of the clean UI, it surprised me when I noticed […]
