So far Seattle rocks, the weather is fantastic, the people are super friendly and it’s plenty of stuff to see. Arrived in Seattle yesterday evening, 9 hours flight, no sleep but super excited, myself, Ciaran, Ecky and Rob Kerry were…
For those of you that are in London, please feel free to join us for a SEO Meet/Piss-up after London ad:tech tomorrow, Thursday 27th. Location: Crown & Sceptre Time: from 6ish I have also opened a facebook group called ad:tech…
As much as it pains me to admit this, I think that we should all optimize for misspellings. I’m having trouble breathing right now. After being thrown out of the 6th grade spelling bee for misspelling “vacuum” I’ve always been…
In case you don’t know much about directory structure (or you’re just an idiot), the home page is the most important one on any site. It’s first in the hierarchy, it’s usually going to be what other inbound links point…
Warning: this post has almost nothing to do with imparting any SEO knowledge to our loyal readers. For those of you who aren’t in the USA, tomorrow is Independence Day. Well, it’s Independence Day for all of us in the…
Things that irritate people on a site will make them not want to come back…how hard is it to code a required field as such? When there are 10 boxes to fill out and 9 are yellow, one assumes that…
Will our jobs, as SEOs, get harder as the average searcher gets smarter? Typically speaking, people don’t really seem to get any smarter to me as time goes by. Sure, they may learn to do something more efficiently, but your…
My name is Julie, and I have a bad client. OK seriously, HE isn’t a bad client…he just has the misfortune of being bound by some amazing constraints that are coming from all over his company, factors that prevent me…
I’ve never really understood why these niche search engines keep cropping up until now…and it involves one of my favorite things in the world. Yes, it’s wine. Glorious, spellbinding wine. Doug Cook, a former search executive at Inktomi (for those…
“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.” Oscar Wilde My alternate title for this piece was “Page View Syndrome” but then I thought that sounded like something you’d catch by using the computer terminal at an Indonesian whorehouse.…