Dr. Peter J. Meyers, Author at Search Engine People https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/author/drpete Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:06:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/search-engine-people-favicon-2026-66x66.png Dr. Peter J. Meyers, Author at Search Engine People https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/author/drpete 32 32 How to Win Trust with Humor https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/win-trust-humor.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/win-trust-humor.html#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:20:47 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=8723 Who should you be in social media? How should you be? Learn what place humor has in your online social networking and how it differs from regular humor.

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/win-trust-humor.html/feed 3 How to Guarantee Anything https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/how-to-guarantee-anything.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/how-to-guarantee-anything.html#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:26:29 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=4139 We all want guarantees, especially when it comes to success. Unfortunately, for every company genuinely willing to stand behind their services there seems to be a dozen using guarantees to intentionally mislead prospective customers. In the SEO industry, guarantees too often seem to be just another form of snake oil, taking advantage of the ignorance [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/how-to-guarantee-anything.html/feed 5 Eat Your Own Dog Food: 5 Simple Ways To Make Your Web Site *Pop* https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-ways-web-site-rock.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-ways-web-site-rock.html#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:09:46 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=3842 Usability expert Dr. Peter Meyers shows how Internet service web sites can often be the most unloved property, effectively killing their own message. He introduces 5 simple steps to make your web site *pop* We internet professionals have all experienced the cobbler's children dilemma - the poor cobbler is so busy making shoes for customers [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-ways-web-site-rock.html/feed 4 The Cheapskate’s Guide to Usability https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/a-cheapskates-guide-to-usability.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/a-cheapskates-guide-to-usability.html#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 16:00:17 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=2860 A big part of my day-job is trying to evangelize website usability to small businesses and friends in other industries (SEO, design, etc.). One of the biggest obstacles I come up against is the idea that decent usability testing is expensive. Sure, full-scale laboratory testing can be expensive and isnt accessible to everyone, but theres [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/a-cheapskates-guide-to-usability.html/feed 16 How to Disagree With Style https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/how-to-disagree-with-style.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/how-to-disagree-with-style.html#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:25:10 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/how-to-disagree-with-style.html Pick a topic, any topic. No matter how small or insignificant, somewhere on the internet there are two people right at this moment threatening each others' lives, mothers, and sexual orientation over it. Our own community, which should spend enough time online to know how to behave, is no better " every week theres some [...]

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