Use Yahoo pipes!
Yes...you! Yahoo pipes is as easy to use as any other type of drag-n-drop style application. It's also no more complicated than WordPress for example. You can use it out of the box, or you can customise, or even build [...]
Almost an SEO Rocket Scientist — and you still don’t do these 3 things
1. Start with a plan 2. Think like the buyer 3. Break all the rules 1. Start with a plan When I was learning to be a good writer way back in the day, my English teachers had me reading, [...]
Intelligently Crafting Content
I could start off this article by saying that to succeed with SEO, you should create high-quality content, but if I did that, you would immediately think, "same old 'content is king' blah, blah, blah", and you'd probably not read [...]
Ruud Questions: Debra Mastaler
When you enter the realm of legends, Tolkien is a given. A name anyone just knows. Likewise, when I entered the world of SEO sideways, names of legend existed. It's there that we find Debra Mastaler listed. Start talking links [...]
Do-It-Yourself Online Reputation Management – 7 How To Tips
Search engines and the internet have changed our world in ways few could have comprehended. Most of these changes have been extremely positive eg. I can now study a new concept from the comfort of my home. However, some of [...]
10 Reasons Why Visitors Do Not See Your Calls To Action
When you think optimization, the word may well suggest a tuning process for something that is already working fairly well. If something is not working then making it work is not optimization but some other more heavy-duty task such as [...]
17 Ways to Accelerate Links to Your Link Bait (and Other Highly Linkable Content)
Linkable content often does not receive the attention required for substantial link acquisition. This article outlines a simple process for identifying link prospects for any content that hasn't accelerated link acquisition the way you had hoped.
The Cheapskate’s Guide to Usability
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 [...]
Sick Depressed Fish Color & Decaying Fins?
It is almost impossible to be a good critic to yourself. I've told clients this and been frustrated when they couldn't see that they aren't their target market. The problem is, when you're in the fish bowl, you think everyone [...]
Ruud Questions: Joost de Valk
As someone born and raised in the Netherlands I of course know Joost de Valk; it's a small country and we're all on a first name basis ... Kidding :) No, I know Joost de Valk because he's one of [...]
