Search engine optimization has traditionally had few, if any, social components. It was a world where mediocre content coupled with masses of backlinks was a surefire path to the top of the search engines. Webmasters who cleverly interlinked their content and made hundreds of directory submissions, forum signatures and reciprocal or three way link exchanges […]
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Personal Cloud Computing Services: the Future of the Web?
Update 2024: This article is more relevant than ever today, with even major word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software (like Microsoft Office) has moved to the cloud to join competitors like Google Drive. These once were the foundational traditional software programs installed on just about every individual computer. Just about everyone in the industry is […]
Getting Blog Visitors From Google Maps and the Growing Impact of Local Search
Update: Late in June 2011, Google pulled third-party reviews from its Places pages in order to emphasize reviews from Google users. They did keep a small link to other sites around the web with reviews, however, so traffic generation is still possible. As I was checking the analytics for my sites the other day, I […]
How to Organize Your Blog for Better Navigation
For any website, your goal is to have visitors stick around and engage, not just scan the home page and leave. Navigation is not so difficult for a basic five page website, but when you have a blog with five posts published every single week, it’s much more difficult to guide readers to some of […]