Archive for September, 2009

Ouch, this made my eyes hurt. Sort of like an infomercial, with the hosts milling around the kitchen. Ugh. 

  Very cool tool here, and just in time for IE folks to take advantage of the upcoming ultra-communications tool Google Wave. a plug-in for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that loads site content in a Google Chrome frame within IE. This provides a seamless updated browser experience for IE users – using the faster rendering engine [...]

  “We don’t use the keywords meta tag in our search rank.” Boom! There you have it.

  Very good articles and links all about Search Engine Optimization, part of a larger resource provided by the government, with areas for managing content, usability, design and how to improve your website. Optimization – WebContent.gov: Better websites. Better government.

I just noticed something particularly aggravating about the Facebook user interface (UI) that has never come to my attention before. Now, this is an issue with the UI, not with the Wall, and how information is streamed on it, related to the big Facebook update a few weeks ago. For a website with such a [...]

Great article in Advertising Age discussing the example of branding evidenced by The Beatles over the years. Marketing: For Beatles Brand, All They Need Is Control – Advertising Age – News

It doesn’t sounds like there is much of a “Plan B” in Yahoo’s playbook. This will throw the SEO world for a loop. Everyone is trying to formulate a strategy for the Microsoft-Yahoo search “merger” – and now the possibility that it may not happen at all. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan outlines here how [...]

Good overview of Google Caffeine, basically the next generation Google – or at least the first step in an iterative process toward it. Caffeine will impact Google in terms of its index size, indexing speed, accuracy and comprehensiveness. You can access Google Caffeine for testing here: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ Bruceclay.com.au – Google Caffeine – SEO Blog

  At least there is an opt-out option. Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

  Very cool WordPress technique, and excellent tutorial on how to add that “carousel” photo and recent stories tool to your blog. A carousel is in use on the Gray Wolf blog, and other sites like Gawker, Lifehacker and the whole family of blogs from whatever that groups is. The name is not listed on [...]


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