My pet peeve of the year is people who don’t understand what Pinterest is for. Ever since Pinterest started blowing up, and especially after the word got out that Pinterest is great for SEO, everyone just jumped on the Pinterest button bandwagon; many jumped on without really knowing why.
What was their logic? “Pinterest is popular and I heard it’s good for SEO. I need Pinterest buttons on my site.”
No. You don’t. Continue reading
I just put up my latest blog post at SwellPath. The topic, configuring Author Rich Snippets to show up in Google, is something I’ve been infatuated with since I learned about it. Google’s aiming to put more and more focus on people (authors) and less focus on websites as their own entities. That fascinates me and I also think it’s the direction the searchable web needs to go in. Continue reading
Better or Worse?
A week or so ago, I realized I’d been completely negligent of my bamboo plant for what must have been quite a while; its cube had been dry for some time. I refilled its water immediately, but after a few more days, I came into the office and found it in a truly gruesome and pitiful state (left). Continue reading
There’s a rebellion on ice and you’ll pay the price
As your freedom fades away.
Dishonesty is high, so won’t you even try
To stand up for your rights and say.
We don’t want your laws. So take ‘em back right now.
They’re bullshit anyhow.
It’s time we had our say. The injustice cannot stay.
They stabbed us in the back.
And you can feel it bleeding if your heart’s beating now.
Recommends that webmasters use meaningful URLs that are “intelligible to humans”, builds Google+ URLs as a meaningless string of numbers that no one can remember.
Good one, Google.
The web community is all abuzz with the news that Google is planning to penalize (in some way) sites that are “overly-optimized” for search engines. As any SEO blog will tell you, Matt Cutts of Google Web Spam fame, revealed at SXSW that Google has been working on a way to penalize sites that are too optimized for search. They plan to roll this out in the coming month(s).
As a result of this announcement, my Twitter feed is flooded with “Hold the phone SEOs. Your day is done!”. While I’m not by any means going to ignore any change in Google’s algorithms and web spam systems, I don’t believe the new Google over-optimization penalty is a concern for quality SEOs. Yes, “quality” SEOs. You can call that “whitehat” if you want.
Hidden text on websites has long been on of my pet peeves. Here’s why:
Hiding text or links in your content can cause your site to be perceived as untrustworthy since it presents information to search engines differently than to visitors.
So along those lines, I present you with this. It’s pretty much my reaction whenever I discover massive hidden text on a website. That, or facepalm. Continue reading
I got re-excited about Quora.com this week and decided to start making a habit of participating in that community. While it’s a cool idea and is fun, I also find that answering people’s questions about my areas of expertise (SEO, Web Development, etc) helps me cement my own ideas and beliefs. It’s easy to take certain pieces of information for granted, but if someone’s asking me for knowledge and I’m stepping in as the “expert”, it really makes me stop and ponder if I really have the right answer. It’s often said that if you can’t explain a concept clearly to someone else, you don’t understand it. So thanks, Quora, for helping make me more awesome and knowledgable.
So, I’m participating in Movember to raise awareness and funds for cancer. I’m really hoping to help this awesome cause, so I’m going to be giving away free links to any awesome people who donate to Movember through my page. It’s pretty win-win. Donate to support an end to cancer and get a free backlink to your site.