Apr 13, 2012

New Website (Photo credit: J Garrattley)
1. “I can’t afford a website.”
So you have your next-door neighbor’s teenager build you one? Please.
Many people confuse the democracy of the Internet (everyone is there!) with “free.” Many forget that, a decade or two ago, we were all spending a lot more money on ads, printed newsletters, mailings, and brochures. It was important to market professionally, and it still is. (more…)
Mar 19, 2012

Matt Cutts (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)
As it turns out, yes. Even though it was just in 2010 that Google’s Matt Cutts said otherwise.
The good news is that Google’s recent announcement that a web site can be “overly SEO’d” is all part of a bigger plan to keep the web the democracy that it is. (more…)
Mar 6, 2012

Image via Wikipedia
Have you ever wondered what the famous ” lorem ipsum” (the so-called “greeking” used by millions of designers who want to show text without actually having any) translates to? Hint: even tho it’s called “greeking” by designers, it’s actually only translated into Latin. Trying “Greek” in Google won’t work. The true meaning of greeking is that it’s not greek at all. (more…)