Don’t make your users feel stupid. Make them laugh. Check your 404 page today and make sure it’s not the same old default techie drivel that sites lose users to every day. Preserve your web traffic with a few easy changes.
Just in case - what is a 404
Probably my single most […]
I’m not real sure why I waited so long…perhaps because I was afraid it was overhyped…but the point is, I’m finally reading it. I didn’t want to wait to post until I finished a review, since I will probably drink the knowledge of the book for quite some time to come to take it […]
Fun commentary, but technology sometimes sucks…Graywolf and I talked with Greg about click stream analysis and its’ potential impact on search engine results positions. Most people that talk about search engine rankings sometimes forget to realize that there are 100’s if not 1000’s variables to tweak in the search algorithms. Disclaimer: generally when I […]
I’ll be talking with Greg GoodROI Niland tomorrow on Good Karma about various topics including the pros and cons of using clickstream data in search engine algorithms, speculation on how it may be used and a slew of other totally speculative topics that I probably have minimal expertise to comment on but will anyways. […]
I was over perusing on Lee’s marketing blog when I noticed a post Thomas had done on Clicktracks appetizer. I’m a big fan of clicktracks mainly because the people behind it rock, they have excellent support and have made analytics extremly usable and yet still highly informational. Best of all they listen to […]
Link valuation is the most fundamental component of current SEO strategies in my mind. There are certainly other important aspects to ranking well, but without understanding how to put a value on a link you are sunk. That’s why I harp about it on a daily basis, and think about it myself just […]
Book: The Tipping Point by: Malcolm Gladwell
Subtitle: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Here’s the scoop: Malcolm Gladwell was the keynote speaker at the recent Boston Pubcon. I figured the memes from the idea in his book would be spreading like wildfire from all the procrastinators that finally found a […]
Usually by the time I return from a conference, I have all the mental capacity of a sea snail. I really don’t understand how folks blog and still manage to enjoy themselves. I generally shut down from the online world for about a week or so:)
I think I’ll skip all the […]
We’ve already discussed SEO generations, how some folks entered the industry at different times and learned from others. Outside of the SEO sphere, however, SEO seems to elicit a much different response from folks based on their different (often negative) experiences with those claiming to be an SEO.
To me, SEO has been a very […]
It is against my better judgment to stir the pot on this issue, but it’s upsetting to me whenever the topic gets brought up. I don’t understand why engines are resorting to fear, uncertainty, and doubt to retain their relevancy, so I thought I’d bite the bullet and drop my .02, rather than let […]
Unfortunately, not everyone on the web wants to hear from you. As people’s personal filtering systems get better, the odds that your message is received declines. Subject lines are a big part of how I do my personal e-mail filtering. When I say “personal e-mail filtering”, I mean the skimming of e-mail […]
Your online credibility is only as good as who you link to. Your ‘hood..your peeps, and even your advertisers.
If you link to ugly, dorky, sarcastic, mean, condescending, people like me, then you could potentially soil your credibility, lose website traffic, be banned from all current and future indexes, and be accused of […]
It is with anticipation and a bit of sadness that I will be leaving We Build Pages to pursue a new career. Unfortunately, the direction of the business is not inline with my personal and professional goals at this time, and therefore I feel I must move on. Now before you hooligans get […]
If you’ve been lollygagging around like me, not reading up on all the new up and comers, Rand and Kat of SEOMoz have just saved you a helluva lotta time through the creation of their web 2.0 awards. Not only did they roundup 300 websites in 38 different categories, they also interviewed with the […]
10. You can say you know Aaron Wall and Rand.
9. Because most people will never “get it” and that’s a good thing.
8. Everybody’s an expert because even the most experienced have only done it about 10 years.
7. You get to read Matt’s “seo blog”
6. You’ve experienced a “google dance”
5. Top 10 listings
4. You travel on […]
1. It doesn’t exist outside it’s own sphere
2. Forum drama and valid paranoia (sometimes they ARE watching)
3. Incompetent creative teams, illiterate content writers, and bad coders
4. Too much back biting blogger bullshit and snake oil peddaling.
5. Unreasonable expectations
6. When no one knows or understands the strategy.
7. Poor communication and organization
8. Rodney Dangerfield gets more respect
9. […]
From some recent discussions, I’ve learned that it’s good to have a sense of humor and be able to handle a little self deprecation, constructive criticism, and even the occassional excessive sensationalism.
I hope most of your SEO experience doesn’t make you laugh at the below. Don’t get mad at me […]
Since I basically suck at coding, I keep borking my wordpress template breaking comments. For all those kind enough to comment, they are now back. Gonna try not to experiment without backups or knowledge from now on. Thanks to a very good developer discussion is back in action again.
Download the new free beta Performancing Metrics here.
I really like stats and most other webmasters and SEO’s do as well. Stable positive stats over time is one of the nicest things we can hope for. While Performancing Metrics is geared more strictly towards bloggers, the need for reliable, granular data is the same.
Nick […]
Okay, firstly what is really better than free information that helps you to make money? Yes, there are indeed a few things, but not many. The gentleman over at Performancing.com have put together a nice free blog metrics tracking system that is a kind gift to those hoping to make money from their […]
…I came up with the title in a hurry after watchin’ too much E channel, pop news, and reality TV garbage while working on my laptop being to lazy to pick up the remote and turn the channel. G-dub was also inspirational with his, “no one wants to be fat or poor”.
So I’m talking links […]
Incentivization and Motivation, in my mind are two amazing semi-scientific metrics to interpret and predict human behavior. Incentives are often thought of in monetary terms and motivation is more of a “sweat equity” labor kind of thing. For all things speculative like link development, community development, or any other new media marketing methodologies, economics theory […]
One of the main reasons I started this site was to have a point of reference for things, and my own sort of public bookmarks for discussion. I often go back through and read some of the posts, and several I reference more often than others. I thought I’d do a list of my favorite […]
If SEO DID Exist…
Would it be a noun our a verb?
Okay, You all know all the blogs and forums that everyone reads. You may know some of these, but you may have missed some as well, and damn it, I wouldn’t want that because I like ‘em. Since I don’t post one off stuff very often, I’ve built a list of my recent “newer blog” […]