Stemkoski
Web design tips & tricks plus anything else I want to talk about…
Category: SEO/SEM

On Thursday, Shawn and I attended the GetListed.org Local University conference at Northern Quest Casino here in Spokane. This was a great event, brought to town by our good friend Ed Reese from Sixth Man Marketing. Being a web professional in Spokane is difficult. All of the exciting workshops and conferences take places in major [...]

I am not a big YouTube person. Every once in awhile, I will watch something like Charlie the Unicorn or Lebron James high school highlight reels when I am super bored. Today I had a web developer friend send over a link to a video called Design Coding. Obviously, many of you beat me to [...]

Clients are by far the most important ingredient to any successful interactive agency. Without clients, we would just be a group of Wii playing losers who spend their day trying to fill the time between Ellen and Judge Judy. I have heard too many times that clients are stupid. That is not true and I will tell you why.

I have been thinking a lot lately about personal development. In a constantly evolving industry like web design, if you want to stay relevant, you need to stay current. Every day there is some new development, product release, or technique developed. If you don’t continue to learn, try, explore, and grow, eventually you will go [...]

Flash is a fantastic tool. We use it frequently as an ELEMENT in the websites we develop. Flash is the best way to show online video and it is a great presentation tool for telling the story about your client through a short animation or some sort of interactive tool. It is not something that [...]

Many of you probably subscribe to the blog of Matt Cutts. If you don’t you probably should. He is a Webspam Engineer at Google and he also serves as a spokesman for Google. On his blog he offers helpful information, explains google policies, and also spends a great deal of time explaining or dispelling rumors [...]

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element designed to help clean up duplicate links on your site. This new element helps the search engine find the primary or canonical location of your page. This is a particularly handy tool if you have a number of dynamic pages that show the same [...]

I hadn’t, at least not until this morning. I came across a reference to WebmasterRadio.fm while reading my RSS reader. I don’t know how I missed something like this. I love listening to industry related information. Until this morning, I was content with my weekly BoagWorld podcast episode but it turns out there is an [...]

Occasionally over the years, we have had customers ask us if they need to get permission to link to another website. My usual response is that I haven’t seen anyone turn down a link. As long as you aren’t reprinting copyrighted information, you don’t really have anything to worry about. Well, it turns out that [...]

First, I would like to welcome all my new subscribers. I have been getting an abnormally large amount of traffic the last few days and I have also seen a big increase in RSS subscriptions so if you’re new around here, welcome! Yesterday, I saw a press release from Network Solutions announcing a new web [...]