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New StumbleUpon Toolbar Enhances Google and Yahoo! Search

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

One of my favorite social media services is StumbleUpon. I like it because it’s one of the best ways to discover new websites, and it’s also perfect for marketing Web pages and websites. For some reason, StumbleUpon has the uncanny ability to drive a significant amount of traffic.
The StumbleUpon toolbar makes it very easy to [...]

Posted in Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer, Strategy, Website Marketing, Yahoo! | No Comments »

Crash IE6 with Only CSS

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

I was recently designing and coding a new website for one of our clients. As always, I was coding it in TextMate and viewing it in Firefox and Safari for testing. I had finally come to the point where I needed to start up Parallels to view the site in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). This [...]

Posted in CSS, Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Web Design | 18 Comments »

punBB 1.3 to Support Microformats

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Rickard Andersson recently added Microformat support to punBB, a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board (forum). In particular, he just added support for the MicroID, a small decentralized verifiable identity. The MicroID allows…
…any content owner or web site to publish a simple portable identity token associated with entire pages, blocks of content, or particular pieces [...]

Posted in SEO, Usability, Web Accessibility, Web Design | 4 Comments »

Corporate Link Bait Examples

Monday, September 25th, 2006

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about link bait. Link bait is a term used for creating content that will get people to link to it. It’s not a new concept, but now it seems to have an semi-official term.
Link bait is important, because the result can mean high traffic and notoriety to the [...]

Posted in SEO, Strategy, Website Marketing | 1 Comment »

Google AdWords Location Targeting Preview - Made Easier

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

The Google AdWords team recently announced the release of an ad preview tool for location targeting.
The search results and ads are not active, so you can preview at will without accruing impressions or accidental clicks. Best of all, you can refine the results page by adding location attributes and values manually to the URL of [...]

Posted in AdWords, Contextual Advertising, Google, PPC, Website Marketing | No Comments »

GOV & EDU Links Are Dead! Long Live GOV & EDU Links!

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

For a long time, many search engine optimizers (SEOs) believed that links from government and education websites would help commercial sites perform better in search engine results pages (SERPs). However, that started to become a myth as many SEOs began to debunk it on their blogs and popular forums like WebmasterWorld.com and Search Engine Watch. [...]

Posted in Google, SEO, Search Engines | 6 Comments »