My Search Guru

There are no hard rules on Twitter. Just because someone follows you does not mean you have to follow them back. I tend to be picky about who I follow on Twitter and Facebook. Here are 10 reasons for not following people on Twitter. 1.  Your avatar, (photo), doesn’t exist, is a cartoon character, is [...]

Image by Chrstopher via Flickr Do you remember the Pushmi-pullyu from Hugh Loftings’  original Dr. Doolittle series? This was a two-headed creature, with a head at each end. Facebook and Twitter are very similar to this animal. Twitter is the “push me”  part of it.  Twitter, Plurk, and other micro-blogging applications push users to click [...]

Image by Gary Hayes via Flickr I have been noticing a worrisome trend lately. Many businesses have decided to  go with social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) before making sure that 1) their website is fully optimized for users (or search engines), or 2) that their website is fully functional. While I agree that using [...]

Image by LexnGer via Flickr A good way of getting more keywords on a website is to put together a glossary of terms. This has two main advantages. First, by putting in a list of definitions, you make the website more of a content site, and one that will be seen for information. It is [...]

Image via Wikipedia In order to rank well on the search engines, you need to have other websites pointing to your website. These are known as inbound links. There are a number of ways of getting inbound links to your site, and several older techniques that are no longer very useful. One of these older [...]

Image via Wikipedia There is currently a discussion on MyVirtualPowerForum about Google being evil. This was my first response to the discussion. While I do not consider Google “evil” (I reserve that label for the really bad things in life), I do think that they are the big bully on the block. For all the [...]

Image by mringlein via Flickr I gave a talk recently to my SEO Meetup about the 10 biggest SEO Mistakes. I discovered that there are way more than just 10, so I grouped them into three basic sections: Web Design; Title and Meta Tags; and Linking. Of course the absolute BIGGEST mistake is not to [...]

Image by jlori via Flickr As the economic crisis continues, more layoffs are being announced everyday in the tech industry. Zillow (real estate) just laid off 35 people, hi5 (a social network) let go 10-15, Adbrite (advertising online) dropped 40, and even eBay downsized 1500 peeps. Yet i still see many notices for in-house SEO [...]

Cool! My client, Ferrari Productions, just won both the San Diego Reader’s Poll and the US Local Small Business Awards for best video production company in San Diego! Ferrari Productions

It is really fascinating to watch the deployment and preparations for Gustav from my computer. Twitter allows me to follow CNN reporters, disaster doctors “tweeting”, people on the ground, and the various emergency networks coming together online. Several new networks such as one on Ning.com and others are being set up and people are being [...]