Get Listed – Local University – Spokane WA (REVIEW)
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 [...]
The SEO Rapper… Again
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 [...]
All flash sites for local businesses? Really?
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 [...]
Have you Heard about Webmaster Radio?
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 [...]
Small Business Link Building
Building links for small business website is a tough thing. Most small businesses don’t have much of a budget to build links. Good link building takes a lot of work regardless of business size but large businesses have an easier time getting press and recognition which often brings with it lots of links. Today, Aaron [...]
Search Engine Optimization for Non-Profits
Today while I was reading Aaron Wall’s advice regarding blog optimization (Available here: http://www.seobook.com/bloggers) I noticed he had a more recent guide for non-profits interested in SEO. As I have discussed before, I have been looking for various resources that I can provide to clients to help them understand search engine optimization. Often for many [...]
3 Examples of Why Cuil Sucks
I was recently reading a follow up article on Cuil. Some of you may remember Cuil got a lot of press in July of 2008 when their search engine launched. Many felt it was likely to be the first search engine to provide real competition to Google. A lot of this publicity came from the [...]
Explanation of How PageRank Actually Works II
Last week I posted about a video that explains how PageRank actually works and details the real value of PageRank. While they posted the second installment this week so I have brought that to you here: SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – PageRank Part II from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. Also, SEOmoz had an interesting article about [...]
Google SEO Guide… From the Horse’s Mouth
For those of you interested in SEO, today Google made an interesting post on their Google webmaster blog regarding SEO. They have published the “Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide.” It is basically a list of best practices but it is worth a read. As a web developer this may be worth something to distribute [...]
How to Handle Clients and their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Concerns?
You may notice that the title of this post has a question mark. Steven Wanless left me a good comment on yesterday’s post regarding how PageRank actually works. In his comment Steven brings up a really good question. How do you handle a situation where a client knows too much about SEO, or even just [...]