It’s time to talk about search engine optimization. Whether you’re making a page to sell your company’s revolutionary new product that’s going to make White-Out look like a marginally successful invention, or you’re blogging about your cat, Irene, eventually it happens: you start wondering about your stats. Who’s visiting my site? What are they looking [...]

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Here’s something I’ve been wondering about. Over the years since I first started studying SEO, the recommendations about meta tags have changed over and over. The keyword meta tag used to be essential - then it got so abused by spammers that some people leave it off entirely. Other tags have come and gone in [...]

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Bloggers can now insert a no-follow tag to prevent spammers from benefiting when they comment on the blog just to get a backlink. Read here: real SEO .com (SEO News): Google will finally disregard comment links on blogs
And I’m all in favor of that. But am I missing something, or is this also going to [...]

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Here’s an article that makes for a great primer on SEO: SEO For Dummies (Search Engine Optimization Basics) :: SEO-Forums.com. It may make the whole thing sound complicated if you’re new to this, but most of it boils down to building a site from a visitor’s perspective. How would you search for the stuff your [...]

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You’ve got a new site. You need to build traffic, and that means you need inbound links from other sites. You notice there are more sites promising site links than you can count, and quickly get the feeling they’re not all of the same quality. Good catch.
Read info vilesilencer: the SEO friendly free directory list [...]

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Don’t miss this program: frontline: secret history of the credit card | PBS. You can watch it on RealPlayer, or at least read the accompanying articles.
What’s so important to understand from this report is: the credit industry is not one in which the business wants the consumer to fulfill his obligation to them. This [...]

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This has been around for a while, but if you don’t know about it, it’s a must: get the style master :: download from WestCiv. It’s a 30-day demo, but even if you don’t choose to keep it ($60), it’s got an amazing tutorial and references built in. The help files remain accessible after the [...]

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If you’ve spent much time in one of those seriously “red” states in the US - so-named because they always show up Red for Republicans on election day maps - you may already realize conservatives rate independent thinking somewhere between putting hexes on people and homicide. It’s automatically suspect - evidence of someone trying to [...]

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Finally! For someone who’s not an expert in php, it’s a bit of a nightmare looking for the content management server (CMS) that’s going to do what you need. Once you’ve played with all the ones in Fantastico and none of them are quite the ticket, where do you go?
opensourceCMS.com offers not just reviews and [...]

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Here’s an article that got me thinking, and not just about what it discusses: CNN.com - Class seeks to rid kids of Appalachian accents - Feb 4, 2005
It’s about a theater class in Kentucky where kids are being taught to speak without the mountain accent. I see no controversy there: if kids want to get [...]

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