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The Word - Wikiality (Courtesy of Mr. Colbert)
Oilman pointed to this first, so he deserves the link credit. Bravo, Todd - your taste in entertainment makes me an even bigger fan than before. Like Todd, I watched this segment last night and couldn't help but think how plugged in Colbert's staff must be to the Web 2.0 world. Unlike so many parodies of Internet t...
Matt Cutts' Videos -- Take 2!
Boy, what did I get myself into? Rand has chained me to my desk and ordered me to summarize the next set of videos released by Matt Cutts. This new batch of summaries is more verbatim than the last one, so enjoy.1. Does Google treat dynamic pages differently than static pages?...
Summary of Matt Cutts' Question-Fielding Videos
Via Threadwatch, I came across some Google videos of Matt Cutts fielding questions that he had received through his blog comments. I was initially quite interested in seeing the videos, as I thought he would be including demonstrations or visuals to aid in answering the qu...
Livejournal's Awesome 404 Error
When dealing with client recommendations for design, usability, and accessibility, we always stress the importance of a custom 404 page. Why? Because I think everyone gets a little sick of seeing standard pages that do little to direct users toward a useful solution. These boring, default 404s are not friendly, they're hostile. And without the proper presentation they risk scaring away less savvy ...
The Internet = The Ultimate Focus Group
I'm proud to say that as August 18th grows closer, I've had snakes on the brain. Why's that? Well, unless you have been actually living in a cave for the past year, you know that Snakes on a Plane hits theaters nationwide in mid-August. Why the excitement? Is it because I'm excited to see movie camp at its finest? Hell yes! Is it because the...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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A Ruthless Tactic - Google Checkout Boosts CTR in AdWords
It appears that Google's new checkout system provides an added bonus and strong incentive - namely a nifty little icon that helps your site stand out in the AdWords listings on search results pages. See below: ...
A Simple Explanation for Why MySpace is So Successful
For nearly 2 years now, online and offline media has been obsessed with the success of MySpace, the social networking website that caters primarily to teenage and young adult demographics. Explanations for the phenomenal growth in traffic, page views per session, membership explosion and brandshare have been attributed to everything from the ...
How & Why Google, Yahoo!, MSN & Ask Should Handle International Content & Language Issues
A year and a half ago, the major search engines got together and talked about the issue of blog spam. Ask didn't attend (although they received an invite), but Google, Microsoft & Yahoo! all sat down (with the creators of popular blog software packages) and found a way to help make links from anonymous sources on the web separa...
Two Great Pieces from Slate; One on the Long Tail, the Other - Linkbait
Slate's begging for two blog entries with their content today, but I'm going to put both subject in one to help conserve space. Besides, they really don't need link love from the SEOmoz's of the world . The first piece is a review of ...
Technorati's New Favorite Blogs List
Along with their recent redesign, Technorati now has a "most favorited blog list," it appears both on the popular page (along with cool data like the most popular online videos, tags, searches and news) and in its own page as a list of the top 100. ...