Posts filed under 'Google'
When Do You Let ‘You’ Become A Brand?
My friend and colleague told me this year she decided to be just herself online. No more hiding or pretending and if someone does not like it well then that is ok too. I told her I admired the bravery of her hell be damned attitude as I am not sure I would feel comfortable doing the same.
Yikes! ‘I’m On Google! (more…)
2 comments February 5, 2010
Why Google Chrome OS Is Not Such A Good Thing.
I have been reading all these positive blogs about the future of the cloud, the cloud is where it is at, the cloud, the cloud, the cloud. Please don’t drink the kool-aid folks. I am going to tell you why the cloud, for all its good, has the potential to be so wrong, especially in the case of Google’s Chrome OS if this becomes mainstream.
So Why Do You Hate The Cloud?
First let me say, I appreciate the benefits of the cloud for many things. It has many pluses, especially with regards to… >>
Continue Reading 9 comments November 23, 2009
10 Ways To Rank Without Links OR PageRank
Links.. Links… Links.. Links here and links there!
At PubCon this past year, InLinks was the newest link buying platform and though they received a strongly worded letter from Matt Cutts, my guess is that will stop few from giving inLinks a try. But I wonder sometimes, why all this focus on links when there are many things you can do to get a site to rank, straight out of the box without them. Now, I am not saying you can rank well and permanently if no one links to you. What I am saying is, with good on-site optimization, you can make it to the top ten without a single link and a PR of 0 and then you can follow that up with good white hat SEO and SEM and get there without all the fuss of chasing the link and the algo.
Now I know the first people to slam me will be those who say, “have you tried to rank for the PPC…
Continue Reading 1 comment March 16, 2009
What Does Google Know?
I just returned from PubCon – ok so I live in Vegas and returning just means driving home, but when I got back to my computer and started reading posts from the conference I started to see many comments on personalization and the future of search and that got me thinking about the subject from a personal level.
While personalized search sounds all warm and gooey, I currently deactivate all forms of obviously tracked search (note the key term there is obvious). Yet despite my attempts…
Continue Reading 2 comments November 20, 2008
If Content Is Google’s King – Then Valid Code Must Be Its Prince!
“Personally, I do think creating clean code that validates and works on many different browsers will be an important skill for webmasters and web designers.”
Matt Cutts September 2, 2008 @ 3:21 pm · Filed under Chrome, Google/SEO
Google SEO guru Matt Cutts said something interesting yesterday, but so far it seems pretty quiet on the blog front, so maybe it went unnoticed or maybe no one cares. However, for me …
Continue Reading 10 comments September 4, 2008
