Yesterday I was in a meeting and was asked about this concept of newsjacking as a ‘new’ way to gain traffic because your piggybacking yourself to hashtags and things that are trending, and building a Tag Cloud geared towards that. Well, I stopped and thought about this for a minute and looked over the paper […]
Is NewsJacking Really New or News? Read More »
I’ve been getting a lot of calls here of late from folks that sorta go like this: Hi, my domain is (fill in the blank) and we need to convert or migrate our website to WordPress. How do I do that? Sounds simple enough on the surface, but there are many things to consider as you
The Flip is in…Tips on Migrating a Website to WordPress Read More »
There, I said it. Mobile is coming. I’m to sure we needed Google to give us a drop dead date. And, I have an interesting theory on that anyway, but I’ll save that for another day. More to the point, I want to address a few things that need to be discussed when deciding how
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I’m sure I’m going to get that question, so I’m preemptively answering it. I may still go with a flat color palette yet, but I’m still not sure that’s going to convince you I know what i’m talking about, and two, it’s a fad and I hate fads. You’re always chasing them down the road. I
Why Didn’t I Build an Infinite Scroll? Read More »
Yesterday I had lunch with a prospective new client that had a story similar to many I hear. He did have one interesting characteristic though, he was using a ‘blog network.’ So here’s the back story. He recently acquired a business and it came with a webmaster. Not really a website, just the webmaster. And
Blog networks and bad web designers Read More »
Okay, so Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Did you know St. Patrick was Italian? I didn’t, but being Italian myself…I see an opportunity. And then important news; Kraft has recalled Mac and Cheese. So that’s our current events tidbits for the day. So, here’s a question: If you are a national manufacturer, should you push a local
Local Search Optimization: To do or not to do Read More »
News broke this morning that the popular SEO plugin for word press now has a venerability which allow a common web attack called SQL injection. Not to get all geeky on you, I’m going to simplify it for you. First make sure that none of you users are authors, unless you know who they are.
Exploit found in Ultimate SEO Utility (Yoast SEO) Read More »
Most of you that know me know that I’m out more days than not working with our clients and teaching them how to get their websites ranked. It has really become something I am passionate about and something I’ve really gotten good at. In all these years many of your stories have provided a learning
ACTWDs Blog Is Starting Read More »
So yesterday I got an email from our publicist that asked me to give her 3 tips for people that own a website. As I sat down to write them for her, I realized we had a really good core idea that could be easily made into a killer blog post as well as
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In the age of penguins, there has been much attention paid to anchor text and how to use it properly now. When I add in the considerations for the over-optimization penalty a page has, how to add and when to add anchor text had to change. First lets recap how we did things in the
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