Well, my weekly posting on Search Engine Lowdown continues this week with some observations on Dmoz’s ongoing outage. Okay, so my posting hasn’t exactly been “weekly,” but at least I’m still contributing. Most of the people on the project who promised to do so haven’t even done a single post, a fact which Jeremy has [...]
Changing domain names isn’t just a matter of getting people to type in a new URL for your website. The second the switch takes place, all of the links that used to lead to your website are lost. And while putting a 301 redirect in place can make the change transparent to most users, it’s [...]
This may come as a shock to some, but I’ve never had any kind of formal SEO training. Don’t get me wrong; I certainly know my fair share about the practice (I am a professional in the industry, after all), but it’s all stuff I’ve learned haphazardly along the way. Because of this, the contest [...]
I recently volunteered myself to create a new weekly post for Search Engine Lowdown. I am supposedly one of several people doing this, although I’ve been the only one to write anything since our meeting two weeks ago. I don’t mind, of course; it’s kind of fun to be the only one in the room [...]
I always like posting to Search Engine Lowdown, and my latest post about Yahoo and MSN adopting Google’s sitemap protocol is no different. It makes me feel like something of a celebrity. After all, how often do I get to write something that gets read by thousands? I’d love to claim Project Paradox has that [...]
So my friend Garrett, thanks to his new blog, is starry-eyed over the possibilities of WordPress. Not too long ago, my friend Brandon voiced the same sort of enthusiasm when he started his bass guitar blog. As I’ve gained a certain reputation for being a WordPress guru around the office, I was more than happy [...]
As those of you who read this blog are probably aware, last Friday was a bad day at work. It marked the third round of large-scale layoffs in the past year. I’ve already gone into as much detail as I care to on the subject, save for one additional point. Unlike the other layoffs, the [...]
I’ve had my fair share of trouble with web hosts in the past. Having worked for a bad web hosting company, I know how shady and negligent they can be on the back end. The poor consumer is often left with little to do but file a support ticket and hope someone pays attention to [...]
Blogs are a lot like bedrooms; if you do a lot of living in them, they’re bound to accumulate some clutter. It wasn’t until recently that I started looking around the site and noticing the trash piling up. So, I decided to pick up after myself. It was during this bout of blog cleaning that [...]
Okay, so I’ve been at the whole blogging thing for more than a year now, almost as long as I’ve been learning website promotion. You’d think commenting on related blogs would have been my first priority. It was certainly one of the first things that I learned could make or break a blog. I guess [...]