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Yearly Archives: 2007

The future of the Google Toolbar

With the Google toolbar being given new life by Google promoting it for the purpose of tracking your web history, I fully expect the toolbar to start taking a more prominent place. Popularity is now expressed in PageRank only. Soon [...]

By |2013-06-05T12:48:43-04:00May 3rd, 2007|Web Design|

WordPress plugin to make www redirects stupid simple

Not everyone is comfortable with mucking around with 301 redirects and .htaccess files, but redirecting from yourlovelysite.com to www.yourlovelysite.com is pretty darned important (or vice-versa). If your lovely site is a WordPress blog, then you don't ever have to get [...]

By |2007-05-03T14:39:42-04:00May 3rd, 2007|SEO|

Majority doesn’t trust search engines

BigMouthMedia did an interesting survey in the UK asking "do you trust search engines to keep your search behavior private?". The answer is simply: no. 38% feel sure Google will keep their records private. Interestingly enough Yahoo and MSN are [...]

By |2008-10-30T11:08:11-04:00May 2nd, 2007|SEO|

Online Advertising Passes $1B Canadian Redux

After yesterday's post, my boss a friend and I had a discussion about what it all meant. His take is that while the IAB is predicting significant slowing in online advertising in the coming year, this is just a pause [...]

By |2007-05-02T06:09:44-04:00May 2nd, 2007|SEO|

Rubber Stamp Marketing Creativity

Getting creative in marketing often means doing so both online AND offline. Linkbait doesn't just happen online. Ask Ask, for example. They are using billboards in the real world to create viral linkbait for their search engine, and these bizarre, [...]

By |2013-06-05T12:49:16-04:00May 2nd, 2007|Inbound Marketing|

Search Engine Test Case: New Data, New Findings

Three months ago, Joel Bresler launched a web site presenting a cultural history of the American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd." His web site presents an interesting test case for search engine performance. We covered his preliminary findings on [...]

By |2007-05-01T05:48:18-04:00May 1st, 2007|SEO|

Directory Maximizer

I've talked about submitting to directories several times before and I've recently discovered another good directory submission service. Some of the things I like about this particular service are: You can distribute and schedule your submissions at your own pace, [...]

By |2007-04-30T05:49:41-04:00April 30th, 2007|SEO|
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