Why WordPress ISN’T A Good Choice For Your Website
Last month I did a guest article for Jemima Gibbons monthly newsletter on Freshbusinessthinking.com about Social Media Monitoring and Analytics. In that same newsletter Nikki Pilkington argued why WordPress is a good choice for your webs…
Google: Stop the War on SEO and Get Some Better Algorithms
Interesting post on Quora (are they posts or questions?): Is Google intentionally trying to kill rank checking (SERP lookup) by closing their Web API? I found it as a result of doing some research on how to get Google search results programmatically–turns out you have to cheat as Google really is working overtime to obfuscate […]
Google’s New Algorithm Puts Content in the Driver’s Seat
I saw the difference Google’s new algorithm was making to reduce spam the very first time I tried one of the searches I do very commonly. Almost all of the old favorites I was used to ignoring because I knew that a quickly through would buy me nothing were gone. A host of new sites […]
Is SEO Dead or Just Misunderstood?
If you’re involved with your company’s web strategy you’ve probably heard at least a few shots fired these past few days in regard to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The opening salvo came from Chris Dixon’s post SEO is No Longer a Viable Marketing Strategy for Startups. Of the many that followed, the most notable is Danny […]
Silly Rabbits: Google is for Spam not for Search
I’m watching with some interest the growing meme about Google passing on too much spam in the search results. Mathew Ingram does a good overview while claiming Google is on a collision course with Demand Media. He mentions: – Paul Kedrosky’s rant – Vivek Wadhwa, who says we desperately need a new and better Google – […]
Google Instant makes SEO Irrelevant? Who cares?
Steve Rubel makes an the argument that Google Instant will kill SEO because: Here’s what this [Google Instant] means: no two people will see the same web. Once a single search would do the trick – and everyone saw the…
10 Ways People Find Relevant Information
Image via Wikipedia Louis Gray has a dynamite post listing his view of what the 5 ways people find relevant information are. He missed some, which I will add to my list, but this is a valuable list. In fairness, I’m not sure Louis sees this list as extending to search, he is focused on […]
