According to Wikipedia, Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. This is most commonly accomplished by making the site of interest appear in the first page of search results for specific keywords. [...]

The old adage “be careful what you say, because someone might repeat it” would be better phrased these days as “be careful what you say, because someone might repeat it on the internet.”  Negative PR that makes it to the web can be immortalized in search results, forever tainting a person’s or company’s name.
One of [...]

If you’re tired of waiting weeks for your websites to be crawled and listed in search engines, you don’t need more patience…you just need a better search engine submission method.
Chances are that one or both of the following items appear on your website post-launch checklist:

Submitting your URL to Google/Yahoo/MSN via a URL submission form
Submitting an [...]

Over the past couple of weeks, President Obama has focused much of his administration’s energies on the mortgage foreclosure issue.  With interest rates at a historic low, millions of Americans now have the opportunity to refinance their mortgage and, in many cases, save hundreds of dollars a month.  Part of Obama’s strategy for encouraging more [...]

Creating quality META tags may seem like a tedious task, but it’s a task that shouldn’t be neglected.  Here are three reasons why.

META Tags Are An SEO Tool.  Perhaps the most common context in which META tags are discussed these days is search engine optimization.  While META tags may not be the SEO silver bullet [...]

If you’re a Mac user and you haven’t tried Fluid yet, you’re missing out! Fluid is an application that turns any webpage into a standalone application, giving you convenient access to your favorite web apps via the Dock. Here are five great ways to use Fluid to free up a few browser tabs [...]

Google Analytics is a free, very robust web analytics tool that I’d recommend for implementations both large and small.  In my opinion, though, one of GA’s greatest strengths also serves as one of its greatest weaknesses: it’s so easy to use.  A slick, AJAX-y interface can have the dangerous effect of sending our brains into [...]

OK, so it’s not really shocking at all.
Despite the comparably greater amount of press activity surrounding the spinach E. coli poisioning in 2006 (see bottom row of chart for news reference volume), America was much more bent out of shape over the peanut butter outbreak a few months later.  We weren’t any less upset over [...]

Well, she was gone.  But now she’s back.  (Me, that is.)  I’ve overcommitted myself for the past two months at the expense of playing music…and I missed it terribly!
So anyway, hope you enjoy this.  Oh, and I’m actually playing live in a couple of weeks!  On Friday May 9th at the Channel with Jacob Johnson…and [...]

Easy, breezy summer’s day:
The time just seems to blow away.
Always think about the things I’ve done,
Forget to do the things I should.
And as the days, they roll away
Like the ocean’s waves of gray,
I dig to find myself in grains of sand.
Forget to look into the sun.
Who am I now, and have I run so far
That [...]