From the SEO files: Is it easier to rank a subpage of a domain highly in Google versus the domain’s home page? All things being equal, let’s say two separate marketers started two websites at the same time: One created – http://www.bulkbluewidgets.com and the other created – http://www.bulkwidgets.com/bluewidgets Which one has the better potential of [...]
Yahoo Giving Infamous “Linkdomain” Command the Axe
Yahoo’s Infamous “Linkdomain” Command Going the Way of the DoDo A deal signed last year with Microsoft is giving all of Yahoo’s searches over to the Bing search engine. It appears that the popular back link checking function “linkdomain:” has been disabled in Yahoo searches. It’s likely gone for good. What is “linkdomain:”? For those [...]
ChatRoulette and the Future of Realtime Communication
Many people are familiar with the video web cam centric site Chatroulette.com. Created last year by Russian teen Andrey Ternovskiy, Chatroulette has garnered a lot of press in the past year and reached its apex of popularity at the beginning of 2010. For those who aren’t familiar with ChatRoulette, it’s a website that allows two [...]
How Your Website’s Programming Errors and Downtime Affects Rankings
New Video from Matt Cutts on How a Site’s Downtime Affects Ranking A couple of days ago Matt got a question about what would happen if a website went down for a day, a couple of days or even longer. If you watch the video above Matt explains that if a site is down, Google [...]
Twitter’s New Tweet Button is TWEETACULAR: A How To Guide!
How to Customize the Twitter Tweet Button for WordPress Blogs Twitter recently came out with a button similar to Facebook’s “Like button” (move over Facebook). The Tweet Button is “a small widget which allows users to easily share your website with their followers.” (Twitter dev page) A user clicks on the Tweet Button and is [...]
Awesome TypeFace Diagram for Planning Your Next Project
This comes courtesy of Julian Hansen via www.julianhansen.com. It’s a cool diagram for choosing the best font for your next project. It’s as funny as it is practical. While some of the fonts you can find free online, most are paid fonts. The “Are you alone? question followed by “Come with me” if you answered [...]
Email Marketing and (CRO) Conversion Rate Optimization
Email Marketing and (CRO) Conversion Rate Optimization Email marketing is truly a trial and error process that can be easily abused or made worthless if you don’t take adequate steps to ensure you are delivering content to subscribers that is compelling, interesting and engaging. Sending a marketing email to a list of subscribers is simple [...]
Questions/Demands to Ask an SEO Agency/Consultant Before Buying
Questions/Demands to Ask an SEO Professional/Consultant Before Doing Any Business I’ve been involved with search engine optimization for a number of years. Through the years i’ve managed to compile a lot of questions clients have asked about SEO before they hired me. I’ve also seen a lot of clients NOT ask the right questions. Typically, [...]
Play Snake on Any YouTube Video
It’s just recently discovered that if you hold the “left” arrow key while any video on YouTube.com is loading or has already loaded, you will be able to play the game of Snake. You navigate your snake around the video screen and eat up pellets, increasing the length of your snake as you go. If [...]
Just How Important Is Site Speed?
In April Google employee Matt Cutts announced is now incorporating site speed into their algorythm that determines search rankings. So, just how important is site speed to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing!? Well, it turns out…not very. Matt, in his blog, said that the inclusion of site speed as a ranking measure should [...]

