Users appreciate clean URL’s and search engines will rank your site higher if you have easily understandable filenames. Rewriting URL’s is one of the skills that separates average webmasters from ninja webmasters. You know, the guys who work on cutting edge web 2.0 projects and utilize viral traffic from social websites. Rewriting a site page…
DetailsOk, so you can’t exactly delete Microsoft Excel from your harddrive, but Instacalc will give the Myspace generation a lot of educational experience while having fun. Instead of having to read boring math textbooks and memorize endless conversion tables, this nifty program will do all your calculations for you. Need to find out the number…
DetailsThe next time you have a to figure out a way to spice up boring statistics report, see what goodmagazine.com did. By writing the numbers on a super attractive woman they have link baited a video with 550 thousand views and counting. By taking 1 day to film this amateur video and getting a female…
DetailsJust keep picking the pictures that appeal to you, and in the end it will give you a profile of yourself. This is a great visual exercise to give you an idea of your personality. It reminded me of a Zodiac horoscope. dna.imagini.net Here’s my results: Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™
DetailsFree and paid directory listings have historically helped boost credibility and PageRank. If you want to know which directories to submit your website to keep reading. Google does use directory listings as part of their quality score algorithm, and the higher quality directories are given more weight. Paying for a directory link is not an…
DetailsAs reported by Danny and Barry, Volkswagen was busted for using hidden text on their homepage. Instead of creating a search friendly alternative to their unindexable flash homepage, they tried to use a hidden div tag: <div class=”invisibleContent”>Volkswagen of America presents U.S. vehicle information, pricing, incentives, deals, comparisons on Eos, GTI, Jetta, New Beetle, New…
DetailsTech stock day traders rejoice – the web 2.0 bubble is getting enormous, and everyone with a forex software program and a home computer is trying to get in on this deal. Microsoft is serious about buying Yahoo to compete with the mighty Google. Many news junkets with Bloomberg TV, Techmeme, Mashable, & Techcrunch puts…
DetailsSara Smith does a great interview of Rand Fishkin on Search This. I really respect rand for offering so much information about SEO, and he is great at explaining search engines in a very user friendly manner that has wide appeal. He also doesn’t pretend that there are dark secrets to search engine optimization, and…
DetailsForbes has an article about the Google supplemental index, and as usual for a major publication, gets many facts about Google wrong, despite Andy Greenberg interviewing Aaron Wall, Jim Boykin and Michael Gray. To summarize the article, Andy interviews several e-commerce website owners who hired shady SEO firms and now find traffic to their site…
DetailsYahoo has purchased the remaining 80% of Rightmedia it does not own for $680 million in cash and stock. VentureBeat & Techcrunch report that yahoo purchased 20% of the company in October 2006. Redpoint Ventures was the venture capital firm that funded the online advertising tech firm Rightmedia, and its safe to say th Redpoint…
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