It’s fun to be the local SEO guru sometimes. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of explaining some of SEO’s more risque jargon terms to my fellow IT coworkers. I couldn’t help but feel like I was teaching a class on sexual education, especially considering their reactions. The explanation began when I mentioned the word “link [...]
I read a ton of blogs and I rarely unsubscribe from a feed. After all, if I like a blog enough to subscribe to it, I’ll generally want to keep reading it. I find, however, that my status as a regular reader of any blog can be quickly abolished based on a single factor. Is [...]
Most bloggers and webmasters with any kind of an eye for SEO have known about the rel=”nofollow” attribute for some time. Often referred to by the colorful nickname “link condom,” it’s a way of tagging a link with zero trust. Search engines will take it as a signal not to pass value (a.k.a. “link juice”) [...]
After another lull in my Warcraft interest, I decided to pick the game back up and give it another go, this time with my draenei shaman Gregor. So far, I like what I see of shamans. They don’t do anything incredibly well, but they can do pretty much anything competently. Healing, melee DPS, ranged DPS, [...]
I read a lot about SEO, probably more than could be considered healthy. I took a look at my Google Reader subscriptions today and noticed how much the list of feeds has grown over the years. I’ve got most of what you’d normally expect: Bruce Clay, Matt Cutts, Search Engine Land, SEL, SEOMoz, etc., etc. [...]
I had an interesting conversation with my brother the other day regarding the recent incident at Virginia Tech. Like most people, we were both shocked at the death toll. To think that anyone could do this is disturbing enough in and of itself, but to think it could happen so close to home is even [...]
I’m a huge Google fan boy; I have been for years. I start using most of their products the day they’re launched. I’ve come to regard their search relevancy as the absolute best and refuse to use any other search engine in most circumstances. Heck, I’m well known for declaring that I’ll be at the [...]
Our recent life changes haven’t come without their due amount of frustration. I’m working, my wife’s working, and our son is in daycare for the first time in his life. Naturally, there was a lot of adjusting to do for all of us. Probably the worst of it, however, was the cold my son brought [...]
A few months ago, I got to report that Google’s sitemap protocol had been adopted by Yahoo and MSN. Well, it looks like the sitemap protocol has taken another giant step forward with the announcements of robots.txt autodiscovery and support on Ask.com. Why is this so important? One word: Visibility. Search engines have been plagued [...]
Tragically, most Warcraft players on roleplaying servers have little respect for the lost art of roleplaying. I can’t help but wonder why such individuals end up on RP servers in the first place. Maybe they picked a server randomly, or maybe they joined the same server as a friend without considering the type. However they [...]