Last year Matt McGee and others involved in the SEMMY Awards nominated one of my writings for award consideration. I just got an email that for the second straight year, I’ve produced something that the SEMMY judges feel is valuable. Right now, my article and project on Google Sitelinks is available under the heading of Google – All 2009 Nominees. Keep an eye on the SEMMY Awards as judges will now begin to limit the fields of nominees down before…
I haven’t been blogging much, but did want to quickly cover Project Jump Start and why I’m choosing to be involved. Our industry can suck sometimes. There’s a lot of finger pointing, calling out, name calling and veiled disrespect thrown around daily. I’ve both contributed to and been the focus of that nonsense. As I learn more each day, actions speak louder than words. Rather than sit back and watch the community attack itself, I’ve chosen to be involved with…
If you’re looking for a free way to learn more about your visitors’ demographics, I’ve got a pretty simple (and free) solution for you. Quantcast. And while this isn’t a new tool at all, it was new to me a couple months back when I began testing it out. Around 2 months or so and I was checking out the Advertising Page on BBGeeks. Shortly thereafter, I saw that Sugarrae had the Quantcast code on her blog, too. I thought…
If you’ve seen Tynt, you may think it’s cool. That is of course if you’re a 10th grader and your parents are hip enough to let you on something other than MySpace or Facebook. The trouble is, Tynt is a straight up invasion of site owner content. They’re re-purposing all of your hard work and letting anyone – yes, ANYONE – go in there and mark things up as they’d like. Like many others concerned about Tynt, I’m testing out…
While I’m not out in San Jose I did want to send my best wishes along to Todd Malicoat and the organizers of tonight’s Internet Marketer’s Charity Party at SES San Jose. The event is an absolute must attend for anyone at SES, as it combines a great networking opportunity with a great crowd of people — all interested in benefiting a wonderful cause. A $40 donation is required for attendance into the party tonight – but if you’re not…
For the past few months I have been advocating the use of Google Webmaster Tools to clients and friends looking to learn more about their web site. In that time, I’ve gotten a number of questions around what various areas of the tools mean, how they can be used for SEO purposes, etc. To help address potential questions, I decided to create a resource for anyone looking to get started. This isn’t exactly Earth shattering materials, but I do hope…