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Adding Relevant Content

If you are a beginner at search, or you are your own webmaster in a small business, then you’ve undoubtedly heard that adding content to your site on a regular basis is critical to your continued success. For SEO beginners,  I have a few tips in my SEO101 area,...

The Perfect Website

From a site visitor perspective, of course it should look professional, and be functional and easy to use, but what about for the administrator or site owner that needs to maintain it? What would make it perfect for them? Host anywhere In their case, the perfect...

How to Use a Search Engine

Someone just sent me an email about a search engine article I wrote in 1998. It was a short article where I tried to explain what a search engine was, and how to use one. Funny enough, their question was similar to the one that sparked the original article. Like most...

How to Make a Crappy CMS

Want to make a crappy Content Management System that nobody will want to use? Let me tell you some basic steps that you cannot skip if you want to be in the running for the worst possible product for your users…   Do not use anything “open...

SEO Magic Bullets

I’ve finally decided what I’m going to talk about in my portion of SearchFest on March 7th. From 10:45 to Noon, in Miller Hall, at Portland’s World Forestry Center, I’ll be sharing an SEO Basics session with Stanford Davis, of Straight On...