It’s Called SEO and You Should Try Some

Posted on November 18, 2009

It’s been a while since I last posted, but this bears note. Search engine optimization, commonly called SEO, is all about getting search engines to notice you and people to come to your site. The important thing about good SEO is that it will do more than simply get eyes on your site, but it will get the RIGHT eyes on your site. People typically misunderstand the value of optimizing their site or they think that it will radically alter the layout, message or other core elements they hold dear.

First, what SEO isn’t. I think it’s best to get this out of the way early so we can get into helping you do good stuff without a bunch of “but-but-buts.” So, SEO isn’t cramming a bunch of keywords into the bottom of your page. It also isn’t redesigning your entire site so it looks like garbage but Google can read it like a dream. SEO is not putting your site on every link farm in the world and it is not spamming people on social networking sites. SEO is also not spamming people on message boards. SEO is not about fads and fast grabs. It’s not about people coming to your site and then bouncing immediately. SEO isn’t about a bad web experience, plain and simple. Continue reading »

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Information and the state of the web

Posted on June 9, 2009

I only post here occasionally and it has crossed my mind that I might almost be wise to just create a separate blog on my web server.  I have these thoughts and then I realize that I don’t have time to muck with that when I have good blog content to post, or perhaps it is simply laziness.  Either way, I only post when something strikes me.

Oh, and strike me it did.  Today I was hit with a brick by some guy running a site all about that crazy thing called love.  Lies!!  It was all about the web.  More importantly, it was about how to do various things on the web.  The site is called “The Noodle Incident” (http://www.thenoodleincident.com/) and, though it was not my favorite site to visit, I wasn’t terribly bugged about it.  Let me say, I wasn’t bugged until I got to the design page.  Finally, I’d had enough. Continue reading »

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Browser Wars

Posted on April 13, 2009

It’s been a while since I have posted. I know. For those of you that are checking out this blog for the first time, welcome. For those of you who have read my posts before, welcome back. We’re not here to talk about the regularity (or lack thereof) that I post with. What we are here to talk about is supporting or not supporting browsers. So first, what inspired me to write this? Well… this:

We Don’t Support IE

So, this brings a question to mind — which browsers should we choose not to support and for what reasons?

This is an easy question to answer.  You support all of them.  Yep, you heard me right.  You support everything.  You are mindful of browser incompatibilities, inequities, disabled users, mobile users and users you had never even thought of before.  You are aware of the fact that browsers come in multiple versions and you make your sites backwards compatible.  Long and short, do not tell your users what to do. Continue reading »

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