Some days it is difficult to come up with a quality topic, especially when you have been away for a few days. What can I say as I am trying to switch gears from vacation to work. I know that I need to produce content, at least to get my brain back on subject.
I should [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
How Not To Write A Quality Post
April 30th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Blogging · content development · SEO
Bring Home The Bacon In Image Search
April 18th, 2008 No Comments
photo credit: Patrick Haney
In the early weeks of April there has been an explosion in a very odd phrase, Bacon Bra, go search it. I’ll wait. There is quite a bit of content. But alas, no image content. The web results contain numerous versions of the original image from Flickr, but image search doesn’t [...]
Make Content Whenever Possible
April 15th, 2008 1 Comment
photo credit: Finstr
Today I have been doing a good deal of “away from the computer work” and Internet exploration. Checkout a landing page review that I did at SEOmoz. I compare and contrast decisions that were made by the original designer and introduce the changes with a revised page so you can see the [...]
Tags: landing pages
Amplify The Voice of Your Customer
April 9th, 2008 No Comments
photo credit: the Comic Shop
Who is your customer? What do they want?
I want to think that my audience are people that are somewhat aware of marketing on the Internet. People that have a concept of longtail, social media, etc. I wonder what that person wants to see.
I think there is a lack of intermediate [...]
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Stupid Comment Spamming
April 8th, 2008 2 Comments
Yesterday I went in to moderate the comments on “SEO Standards Protect Site Owners” and I found the most amazingly stupid piece of comment spam. Someone had actually copied verbatim 3 sentences from the post and put a link in it to their site.
Generally I am all for furthering discussion, even if you are not [...]
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Update: Yahoo WordPress Plugin
January 17th, 2008 No Comments
After playing with the Yahoo! plugin for a short while I have discovered that the plugin breaks where ever snippets are used in place of full posts. The result is a long string of code that makes the snippet unreadable. So I have decided not to use it anymore, hopefully Yahoo! will improve there next [...]
Tags: Yahoo
A Wordpress Warning
January 17th, 2008 No Comments
Earlier I made the mistake of exporting one of my blogs to archive it. And to my surprise the process eradicated all of my image files thankfully I have recently downloaded the entirety of my image files over the weekend. But take this warning if you have a large number of image in your blog [...]
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Conversion Series
January 15th, 2008 No Comments
Recently I have been putting much of my blogging energy into a series at SEOmoz. Today the series has come out:
Which Do You Need Customers or Traffic
Designing To Make Customers
I am going to be switching gears here to put out post more like those, that is longer in-depth posts. Please leave comments to let me [...]
Tags: Blogging · conversion · Design · SEO
Back To Search
December 19th, 2007 No Comments
After my vacation in Puerto Vallarta I have been finding few things really comment worthy until today. Frankly I have been busy dealing with tax preparation, switching to 100% self employment, and holiday chaos.
As I thought to myself today, I really should post some blogs I saw thatYahoo! wants me to join them in an [...]
Tags: Yahoo
Three Nude Vanessas
October 17th, 2007 1 Comment
Because of my interest in the lovely and talented Vanessa Fox, and her blog Vanessa Fox Nude I have become entwined in the reputation of both Vanessa del Rio, to whom I am not related, and Vanessa Hudgens, who I have never met. All from a comment “The beautiful and talented Vanessa Fox, who I [...]