Google just announced that they’ve made some “upgrades” to their results pages: “more and better search refinements” (those “related searches” terms at the bottom of the search results page) and “longer snippets.” I see two interesting developments here. 1) It seems that Google just opened the door for SEOs to exploit “related searches” terms. On [...]
In the world of Search Engine Optimization, only one thing really matters: relevance. It sounds simple, but there’s a catch: a website is always relevant. It’s just a matter of finding out to whom and how many.
Well, I finally made the jump. This site is now running completely off of WordPress. It’s hard for me to relinquish control of my HTML/CSS to any platform. I’ve always been a fan of hard-coding everything but my content. And, as I’ve written about in the past, I take great pride in clean source code. [...]
Facebook doesn’t own my digital lifestream. But, according to some recent changes to their Terms of Service, they claim that they do. Mashable writes "The Consumerist has noticed a seemingly slight but very important (and disturbing) change in Facebook’s terms of service, regarding user-generated content…in short, all of the content you’ve ever uploaded on Facebook [...]
Sometimes other people can put your thoughts into words better than you can. Jeffrey Zeldman and Smashing Magazine have absolutely nailed this one. Smashing’s latest article, 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites is spot-on and near-flawless. Read it. Learn from it. Heed its advice. Now if we could just get the corporate world to listen [...]