Archive for July 10th, 2006

Simplified Spelling

Monday, July 10th, 2006

While most of us agree that simplified spelling is simply ridiculous, there is once again a movement attempting to get the idea some popularity.  However, Dennis brings up a good point when he asks the SEO question.
Would Google’s indexing algorithms be able to handle simplified spelling? (Or, WWGD - What Would Google Do?)

Certainly we’d see [...]

Analyzing Your Sites Traffic

Monday, July 10th, 2006

One of the most painless ways to increase your site traffic is to analyze your visitors and see where most of them originate.  You can take that information and use it to:
Identify a demographicIn order to please your readers you need to know who they are.  Identifying your key traffic points is crucial in understanding [...]

PodShow’s Podhacking Controversy

Monday, July 10th, 2006

By now most of you have heard of Podshow’s recent controversial podhacking and the theft, via RSS.  If you haven’t, you can read about the RSS hacking here.
Now, it appears they have remedied the situation and it was all just a site redesign error.  Bloggers don’t seem to believe Curry and there is yet another [...]

Click Fraud Costs $800M A Year

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Advertisers spend big bucks online and they hate nothing worse than click fraud.  However, a study has recently found that Click Fraud is costing us hundreds of millions of dollars a year. 
So researchers at information-industry researcher
Outsell set out to find out just how costly click fraud may be. Their
finding: The practice cost as much [...]

Becoming an expert through your blog

Monday, July 10th, 2006

One of the best reasons to blog is to achieve expert status in your field.  One blog that is always read by headhunters and their clients is the Marketing Headhunter blog.
He’s certainly seen as an expert in his field and with good reason.  His posts are relevant to his industry and they are almost always [...]

Underlined Hyperlinks

Monday, July 10th, 2006

With the mainstream use of CSS (custom style sheets) comes the question of whether or not you should underline your hyperlinks, now that you have a way to do so or not do so very easily.
Of course, readability experts suggest that underlined text is more difficult to read (as is itallics and bold), so if [...]