I recently read about an ex-employee of Google who, along with some other ex-employees, created a new search engine called Cuil, pronounced “cool.” It supposedly boasts an index as large if not larger than Google’s. And it was supposed to be better.
Curious as I am, I decided to crank up Cuil and give it a [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 28, 2008
The New Google Buster
July 17, 2008
Recipe for Success Online
The recipe to success with web sites is straightforward and common sense, yet we all too often disregard key ingredients.
July 13, 2008
Start SEO Post Launch? I don’t think so…
I’ve heard this ideology before, but was just reminded again while viewing a presentation by a well respected web professional. It’s the idea that, when building a website, SEO is started at the time of launch and beyond into maintenance mode.
Ah, no…
Search engine optimization must be considered during the initial planning stages of a site [...]
July 12, 2008
Tracking Metrics Between HTML Email & Web Pages
In the past few months, I’ve grabbed a hold of my client’s Email Marketing program (well, only half a hold*) and have begun to master it. One change was to move from using established templates offered by the email provider to using custom templates that I created.
While we lost the ability for my client to [...]
July 9, 2008
Producing Great Search Results Difficult
Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering posted a great article on search engine results page design and how it’s plain difficult to get it right (right = effective to support the goals). I can personally attest to the fact that a well designed SERP can greatly increase usability, i.e. the effectiveness in findability and completing [...]
July 9, 2008
Chicago Dreamweaver Meet-up Wrap-up
Attended our monthly local Dreamweaver Meet-up and again, a great event. We had a great turnout with a good group of newcomers. The topic this month was productivity tips using Dreamweaver. The presenter was Patrick Elward, operator of Chicago Web Management, and a certified Dreamweaver MX Professional Developer. Additionally, he leads the Chicago Webmasters Meetup [...]
July 1, 2008
180 on Flash
In the past, I’ve communicated that Flash, while useful for creating rich web experiences, is the scorn for anyone looking to rank well based on content within Flash movies. Search Engine are just unable to crawl & index this content.
Well, as of July 1, 2008, things have changed.
Check out Vanessa Fox’s article on SearchEngineLand.com regarding [...]
