A little over a week ago I wrote an article entitled “The Three Most Common Web Design Mistakes“. It started some discussion about what mistakes are made on websites, but a couple of the comments had to do with onsite problems that did not fall into the area of the Design. Design of a site [...]

Promoting your business through video sites is a good thing. It’s the ultimate in Web 2.0, and if you’re good at it, use tags properly, and keep filesize/time limits firmly in mind, it can really help your website to take off. And we all know that YouTube videos can sometimes go viral, and really give [...]

How COOL! I can check Google SERPs from different datacenters and see how I rank in each different world region for different keyphrases. This could be extremely useful for those who are doing international business and wish to localize different products to different areas or track the effectiveness of SEO campaigns by region.
I also noticed [...]

Do you believe this?
First I read this article in the Washington Post about DNS Error Redirection and the insecurity of it since the ads are served by a third party, resulting in all kinds of security issues. They say the security issues are fixed. There are, however, other ramifications to this.
In reading the article [...]

WebProNews is reporting that some A$$hat is trying to trademark “SEO”, ostensibly for the purpose of standardizing the “process”. Yeah, right. And if it’s granted, how much you wanna bet he takes down all his competition’s domain names???
There is a process to object to his application, and if there is enough of a flood of [...]

This is a topic that has come up over and over again on WebProWorld– the use of hyphens in domain names for SEO. And it’s amazing it keeps coming up since the answer has been the same since Google was born. Hyphens in domain names are a bad idea, but, ironically, not because of the [...]

Twice recently I went onto client’s sites to find they opted in WordPress Admin to use a category dropdown menu instead of the regular widget menu. It amazes me every time I see this. Why? Because not only is it an ugly interface in an otherwise Kickass design, but it’s also a really really REALLY [...]

If you’re an SEO Tool Junkie like I am, you’ll love this new online SEO software I found. SheerSEO.com will track your google SERPs for your chosen keyphrases, track your pages in the serps, your referrers, your indexed pages, and lots more. The different screens are easy to decipher, and allow you to check both [...]

Recently I was IMing back and forth with a friend in Pakistan. During the conversation we compared SERPS for a keyphrase and realized we were seeing different results. Yes, Google localization is kicking in. Well, he went one better and found a post at Search Engine Watch that talks about Google Localization and links [...]

Some of the issues that come up when deploying a new site design seem to come up over and over again on the SEO messageboards, usually after a site has tanked in Google, Yahoo and MS LiveSearch after a site redesign rollout. Fixing things after the fact is not the best way to approach the [...]

I know y’all are busybusybusy, and don’t have time to even THINK past your next task or deadline, yet you also may know your website isn’t producing clients or prospects or sales or inquiries the way it should.
So, what can be done?
One of the biggest problems in website design is creating a website that can [...]

As a web designer for small business and non profit organizations, I have to be a bit of a jack of all trades, and master of at least a few. One of the beauties of the internet is that we can scale our message back to a human level, unlike the top-down message of Corporations [...]

SiteProNews has an article about a Duplicate Content Exploit that is making the rounds. It gives blackhat SEO weenies a way to knock their competitors out of Google Ranking by duplicating their site, doing some SEO optimization on it, and showing it through a proxy server so that there is little hope of getting it [...]

I got into a discussion today with another person who had a site designed by a friend, which has to be almost as bad as having your website designed by your son in law. I’m not going to link to it, since it’s so very out of date, but the site is GORGEOUS and the [...]

Monday morning, while waiting for a friend in my favorite Coffee House, Stiltskins, I got talking with a gal at the next table over. She was talking about how much fun it was to teach kids. I asked her what she teaches, and she told me she teaches violin, and pointed out the window to [...]