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The Rocket Science of SEO

Another great article on SEO that discusses how SEO is not rocket science, but can be quite complex. Points are made on both sides of the aisle about SEO being so simple a caveman could do it to it being so complex you need to have worked for NASA just to begin to comprehend it. […]

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Plan Your Site…Include SEO

Here’s a great article that again repeats a standard rule. This is one most people think about too late. SEO should be a part of the planning of any site, not an after thought. All too often I’ll have a customer show me their new plans days before a site is suppose to launch only […]

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Do New Technologies Hurt SEO?

Here is a nice write up explaining what CSS, Ajax and Web 2.0 are and how they can impact search listings. The short of it is to follow some really basic rules. Have text links to your other pages, design for the user first, and don’t do stupid code tricks. Ajax doesn’t seem to help […]

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Developers, Start Your Code Search

Public source code (at least we hope it’s suppose to be public) is searchable using Google’s Code Search. Grab any section of code you are having difficulty with and find someone using it in their code and voilla, you’ve got some programming examples. Of course no one says it’s good code or even functional, but […]

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

The History of Search Engines

For history buffs everywhere who need more trivia stuffed into their heads, we bring you a link to the history of search. Enjoy.
History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google 2006

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

label:mattcutts - Google Video

Want to know more about Google? Here’s a link to Matt Cutt’s videos hosted, of course, by Google Video label:mattcutts - Google Video

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006