Websites

No matter how many ads I see for one-click websites on TV, quality isn’t possible with a 3 click process. Websites are not simply drag and drop, click and you’re done, unless something has gone horribly wrong. It’s the first, primary, and likely most important of the ways you will interact with your customer base. Do it right.

Google Places Rural Bias

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If you’re very rural in the United States, the post office will not deliver your mail to your physical address. In fact, you may barely know your physical address. You’re a PO Box user, and you don’t have to pay for the box, because it’s mandated that when the Postal Service thinks you’re too remote, …

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Mixing Search and Social

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Bing and Google are both trying to turn search into a social experience.
Google is doing it by integrating the Google Side-wiki into search, by incorporating Google buzz results into your search results, with Google me, and other recent stabs at the combination of search and social. They’re trying new ones all the time.
Bing is doing it by connecting up to Facebook, seeing who your friends are, what they like, and including those likes into your search results.
The point is they’re both competing to bring you a more social search, seemingly operating with “the web is social now, let’s make search social” as their mantra.
This, to me, translates to, “Let’s change what makes search valuable into something entirely different”.
I can see why they feel the money lies in combining the two. But they should not mix the two beyond the absolute minimum and they should maintain the possibility of keeping them completely separate.

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How an SEO should be vetted

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SEO and Recommendations When you’re looking at hiring an SEO, the search results bring you to the big boys – the ones that a small to medium sized business cannot possibly afford, or to SEO do-it-yourself software tools (and sometimes to complex sign-up forms for systems that may or may not  integrate well into your …

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