Friday, December 31, 2010
For almost as long as there have been blogs, there have been blogs about finding ways to rank higher in the search engines and get more traffic. Search engine optimization (SEO) has been a popular topic for bloggers for some time and though countless have tried, few have risen to the top to create truly [...]
Friday, December 17, 2010
Mobile Web Application Best Practices was released by the W3C as a recommendation this week. Early in the document, there is a list of best practices, which number 32. One I’m really hoping to see put into practice is Enable Automatic Sign-in. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to use some app [...]
25 reasons why I’ll leave your site in 10 seconds. Great read for the newbie students who are trying too much too soon. Warning to local TV: unbundled distribution is upon you is at Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog. This seems like a huge trend to me. In fact, I’ll be posting my own article about [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
This post is reprinted from the High Rankings Advisor Newsletter. Subscribe to the weekly High Rankings Advisor newsletter for regular search engine advice from the experts. I was speaking with a client the other day who commented on my home page, which talks about my tried-and-true SEO process. “Has your process changed much over time?” [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fashionable Web Forms: Traps and Tips has UX advice from a pro on how to make forms work better. Why Wired Loves the Ladies. That slide of the last 32 Wired covers tells the story with such impact no other comment is necessary. Find Websites that are Copying Your Content. Great tips for tools. Mozilla [...]
Here’s a guest post by Amanda at Best Rank, an Internet Marketing Company. The information is useful for an Internet Fundamentals or Basic Web Design setting. Most people surf the net regularly for favorite websites, or search online to gather research for school and work related projects. There are websites for just about any topic [...]
Monday, September 27, 2010
Here’s an Xtranormal video by patob2000 that is a chat between Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ) and Learning Management System ( LMS ). Which character are you? Helpful Blogging Links: How Can I Move My TypePad Blog to WordPress has resources for those who are wondering what to do now that TypePad has sold. [...]
Thursday, September 23, 2010
This post is reprinted from the High Rankings Advisor Newsletter. Subscribe to the weekly High Rankings Advisor newsletter for regular search engine advice from the experts. I would like to second guest author Jill Whalen’s plea to Google to make it less rewarding for the spammers and more rewarding for the folks who are playing [...]
Monday, September 13, 2010
Google Instant and Bloggers: Write Your Way to Page One by Susan Getgood, author of Professional Blogging for Dummies, prompted me to try some searches as a Google vs. Yahoo! test. The tests were not timed for speed. Both Google and Yahoo! use Ajax to offer suggested search strings while you are typing. But only [...]
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Google Instant. It’s new and it’s fast. Google announced it with the headline Search: now faster than the speed of type. Here’s how it works. You start typing something in the Google search box. The instant you start typing, Google shows you suggestions for what it thinks you are looking for. The more you type, [...]
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