Free hosting & Local search
It's pretty amazing. These days all you need is a domain name, ranging in price from $2.95 a year to $29.95 depending on where you get them, and that's it. Point the domain name to Microsoft or Google and you [...]
Finally made the switch to FeedBurner
This old dog is finally learning some new tricks. I've been resistant to switch my RSS feeds over to Feedburner because I didn't want to have my feeds on another domain. But after reading Vanessa's blog last night, I realized [...]
Online Reputation Management A Call To Action
First of all, credit where credit is due. Elixir Sytems, a search engine marketing company out of Phoenix has an excellent white paper on online reputation management posted on the SEMPO site here. They're definition of online reputation managment as [...]
Why I Blog (meme)
I was tagged by Michael Jensen in a blog meme of "Why I Blog", which I suppose is different from "Why I Started Blogging". I started blogging so that I would have a place to point people to for frequently [...]
List of 25 Canadian Hosting Companies with Canadian IPs
As should be apparent from a few of my previous blog postings (Should I use a .ca top level domain (TLD) for my Canadian site?, and Benefits of Being Recognized As a Canadian Site by Search Engines), we believe that [...]
Looking into the Internet Past
Here's a rather interesting tool (https://www.archive.org/web/web.php) that we use frequently at SEP to see how client competitors have evolved and are evolving. To some extent, we can use it to see when a client first tried optimizing their site. Its [...]
Experiencing TouchGraph all over again
When was the last time you checked out TouchGraph? It's been at least a couple of years for me, but I ran across it again while Stumbling. Wow, either I don't remember it being so cool (although I do remember [...]
Should I use a .ca top level domain (TLD) for my Canadian site?
(of course substitute .com.au in Australia, co.uk in England, etc.) Ahhh a question we get often, and one without a standard answer. Rather, the answer is based on your particular situation. So, take a minute to consider the questions [...]
Benefits of Being Recognized As a Canadian Site by Search Engines
While often overlooked by the masses, Google, MSN, and Yahoo all give Canadians different search options than Americans when searching the web. Each gives some sort of preference or boost to sites deemed to be Canadian within their Canadian [...]
So now Google takes over the real estate market?
Where will it end? Google just announced their real estate listings. Will Google be the one-stop shopping service of the web? Will everything be filtered through Google first? Yeah, sure, these listings eventually get to the people's websites, but it's [...]
