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Secrets of Blog SEO: Conversation

Monday, September 24th, 2007

One of the saddest so-called SEO advices is “don’t pass link juice” to other sites. Many bloggers still use “rel=nofollow” in their entries to prevent their page rank from dripping away. This is one of those selfish acts many webmasters do to please Google. And the WWW revolves around Google (?!)…
What these webmasters don’t know […]

Google and The Eiffel Tower

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Both are matters of debate. To think that the Eiffel Tower was originally planned to be built in Canada, for the Universal Exposition of 1888! Well, since the Canadians didn’t want it (and back then, many French voices criticized the Iron Giant as well) France got it and voila, Paris became legend. Just like that. […]

Good Old Fashioned Customer Service

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

When you go into a store with great customer service, you like to go back to it again and again.
My favorite store ever is Nordstrom’s. I remember the first time I was ever in one of their stores. It was as if the sales staff wanted me to feel good about being there. They showed […]

Linking Strategies - The Me vs. Us Controversy

Monday, August 27th, 2007

She wasn’t the first to say it, but the first time I read it in relationship with SEO was when Liz at Successful Blog said,“Reach out with respect”. And it always struck me as a common sense, down to earth, friendly thing to do.
This phrase actually comes from her entry Link Anchor Text: SEO and […]

Emoticon-lookalike pics could win you $10,000

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Every once in a while there is an online competition that really catches our fancy. This one is being run by Symantec, makers of the popular Norton series of consumer software.
What Symantec (known affectionately as Big Yellow in the software circles) wants is for you to submit pictures of objects, people or animals who look […]