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In the world of web design, one of the most frustrating topics I butt my head up against is color scheme. I search and search the color wheel in Photoshop and scour the web to help inspire me on themes that will work for a client or a site. Luckily, I now have some help, and ...
Threadwatch has a terrific (though poorly titled) thread (hats my arse) today on the demise of SEO. There are intelligent opinions from both sides, primarily in the comments on Nick's somewhat over-the-top post - a response to a ...
Over at WebHostingTalk, a very popular forum in the web hosting industry, there's a thread about buying links vs. earning them. The advice tends towards a ...
I notice 3 unique DMOZ threads that are sending quite a few visitors to SEOmoz today. I want to welcome and thank all of the editors there who've made their way over. We may have our differences, but I realize that most of you are doing a great job organizing and classifying sites and maintaining what is still the best directory available. Hopefully, you're not too upset over my ...
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Ian has been found - the details are at Threadwatch. He's in the Atlanta airport, delayed due to a lack of a passport and an especially prickly TSA. I haven't felt this relieved in a long time....
Most people will recognize the name Morgan Spurlock from the famous documentary he made last year - SuperSize Me. He's also the author of Don't Eat this Book (a play on Abbie Ho...
I've asked Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR.com, with whom I spoke on the link building panel at SES Toronto, to stop by SEOChat and answer some of the members' questions. Luckily for us, Greg has a couple of spare minutes today a...
A website I stumbled across through del.icio.us today, Demon @ Thus, has a great short article on writing for the web. The article covers 10, easy-to-understand points, from which I shall paraphras...
Due to my work schedule being overwhelmingly busy today, I won't be posting much. I feel bad about this, since my loyal readers - you - have been kind enough to drop by. There are a few interesting things taking place in the SEO world that are worth reading about: Kim Krause-Berg is talking about...
Sifish pointed me to an article at the Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal by Sarah Needleman - Three Myths on Boosting Search-Engine Rankings. It a fairly primitive stab at explaining how the industry operates, and once again it pushes the pervasive view that most search engine optimization comp...
Alex Frank, a German web designer has taken on the unique challenge of re-building the interface of the web, by removing the mouse click from his users' repertoire of interactive tasks. His example site for this surprisingly innovative project is don'tclic...
Donna Fontenot has posted another fantastic scoop fresh from the WebMasterWorld conference. The post covers how a Google engineer explained to the crowd how Google might monitor and penalize sites that appeared to use surreptitious techniques to boost their rankings - primarily via link spam (although in this specific example, t...
MSN's blog on web search yesterday featured the following fascinating paragraph on the subject of a shift in their technology (proba...
Reciprocal links have long been both the bane and salvation of the individual SEO working away on his/her own small website. Recip links get slammed in the forums and touted by others. Why is there no consensus? Why is this issue still around nearly 10 years after it first became and Internet marketing tactic? The answer is that some reciprocal links can and do help. The reasons are ver...