Boy, I sure am learning how to see the world of search from a UK point of view, and this point of view is often neglected, overlooked, and mad as hell about it. While discussing conversions, Ammon showed me a very interesting example of how a site can instantly alienate a UK user and get him to leave the site. Pretend I'm a user from the UK. Oi, mate! Ello govnah! Ow are ooh? Okay, eno...
I have to say that I'm rarely impressed by new ideas in website monetization, but Linkbucks, as a concept, is fairly revolutionary. The idea is that Linkbucks will display ads on the websites and pages you link to - check out their site for more. ...
Most regular readers know that I'm a big NFL fan, and tonight's Monday Night Football match-up had an incredible storyline. The Arizona Cardinals, perennial losers, were on the verge of crushing the most dominant team in the league, the Chicago Bears, when... well, if you wanted to read about football, you'd be somewhere els...
Scottfish was doing some searching late last night when he came across this website. Now, normally I'm not one to out other's spam pages - it's just wrong somehow!I'll make an exception in this case though...The site is you...
Now don't get me wrong, I like YouTube. Being able to show my girlfriend the end of Rocky in order for her understand why I yell "ADRIAN!!!" around my apartment is a nice gift to society. And I applaud YouTube for turning online video, usually portrayed as "Codec Slickers 2: The search for XVID," into a simple thi...
One of our blog readers wrote in to ask: (I'd like to see) a post on the work you put in to create the proposal and land the job. I guess much of it is re-used every time, but what is not? How much work are you willing to put in at a shot of landing a job? How much information do you give them up front? And what do you include ...
Steven Silvers writes: Research firm Blackfriars Communications estimates that U.S. business will spend aro...
Everyone's favorite social bookmarking site: Del.icio.us, appears to be rendering different content to the search engines than to its users. Every page on del.icio.us appears to have a the following directive in place: <meta name="robots" content="noarchive,nofollow,noindex"/>This should t...
Since we're in the optimization business, I figured it would be valuable to illustrate the ideal use of time for a website owner or a website team. These are, of course, my personal recommendations on the subject, but I believe that to a large extent, a close approximation of these percentages will yield the highest return on your invested time. ...
Nearly all of us are swayed by the power of words. A powerfully written essay, blog post, or article can open our minds, convince us of uncertainties, and even engage us to action. Today, Matt at the 37 Signals blog has an excellent piece that helps dissect buzzwords and effective language: ...
Let's take a walk together down a click-path that's become increasingly popular for less-savvy users. We'll start at MSN's search page, where the results for credit card offers are looking especially black-hat: ...
As I saw reported over at TechCrunch, Jason Calacanis has posted an internal memo at AOL about the strategy he used to "save" Netscape. He created an eerily-similar-to-Digg voting system ...
There's no doubt that naming a business, particularly an online business, is an incredibly frustrating task. A number of parallels can be drawn between this process and the web design hangups Matt discussed in July. Recently, a new friend from San Jose's SES show, John Anderson, ...
I love the back and forth in the SEO sphere, and this example from last week fits the bill perfectly. Todd Malicoat (who impresses me even more every time he posts) wrote a list of the 11 Rising Barriers to Entry for Small Businesses on the Web. Although I agree with Todd that the online world is certainly getting more competiti...