There’s a big discussion going on now among SEOs (search engine optimisers) about Google’s pronouncements about paid links. Basically Google has banned them and promised penalties for using paid links. This is a kind of totalitarianism – Google is free to do what they want with their own algorithm but that does not give them […]
Archives for April 2007
Sponsored Themes at WordPress.org
Coverage of the raging debate about sponsored themes at WordPress.org. Pros and cons of sponsored WordPress themes. Guidelines proposed.
WordPress Ideas Page – Revisiting the Blogroll
When WordPress was a small weblog CMS for PHP insiders, including the developers blogroll did no harm. Right now it’s a tool to sell text links. Enough is enough. Time to revamp the WordPress Blogroll.
Social Web, Online Communities and the shift in Search
Manifestations of online communities: foums social bookmarking sit Ask Enquiro » Blog Archive » Business to Business (B2B) Marketers Need to Actively Participate in Online Communities: How Can B2B Marketers Actively Participate in Online Communities?… Vox – Online community where you can share information about your products, solutions and services through blog posts, audio, video and more.
Keeping destination addresses to yourself
How to hide your affiliate links for IE with Javascript.
Google algorithms creating spam
A very interesting discussion on Aaron Wall’s SEOBook about whether Google is contributing to web spam. The best part is in the comments (sorry Aaron!) where two readers to the numbers on AdWords for relatively high priced PPC words. Basically they just don’t add up.
Pricing a Project: Hourly Billing versus Flat Fee
Pricing a Project | Blue Flavor: One benefits to hourly billing is the client is responsible for increases of scope, protecting the vendor and the customer…. Over our careers in the web we’ve seen requirements invariably shift, and often for good reason, to produce a better, more people-centered end product.
Chaotic Business versus the E-Myth
What do Trizle and E-Myth recommend to beginning entrepreneurs? Read how opposing business advisors approach the mindset of a starting company.
Making a Good Headline Better
I am having to learn copywriting (quite a bit of the poetry I wrote in my twenties was published so I have hope of managing copy too). I wish I had more clients who could write copy as well. What any website needs is more great copy. As opposed to machine generated or offshore article […]
Licensing Photos
Sometimes a website can be setup to help one party and instead help another. For one of my websites, I need to license some photos. I haven’t had the right language for the contract. I looked at the contracts from the stock agencies but they were way too elaborate. I tried to find a local […]