Start preparing your holiday promotions
August 31, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
The holiday season is fast approaching and users are already starting to get into the swing of things. I am seeing a marked increase in users searching for Christmas keywords, with Halloween and Thanksgiving phrases rapidly increasing as well. If you have not yet started working on holiday promotions on your sites, don’t waste much more time. Blink and you’ll miss out on a lot of traffic.
Moving to the boonies
August 29, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 13 Comments
Next Wednesday, I’m moving to the country. Unfortunately, there’ll still be no place for me to move into. So, until my new place is ready and has electricity and water, I’ll be staying with my father-in-law. Poor man has no clue what his life will be like with us, the 3 dogs, the cat, and the 2 birds moving in on him. We’ll probably be there a couple of weeks while everything gets finished up. (We’re moving right next door to him).
Making SEO a little more meaningful
August 29, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Justilien Gaspard is an SEO who, in his words, is looking to “make SEO a little more meaningful”. He is generously offering free SEO consulting to help rebuild the economy after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita down here along the Gulf Coast.
Danny Sullivan Leaving Search Engine Watch
August 29, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Wow, big news. Hard to believe Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch and SES conferences, as of December 1. Good luck in any new ventures, Danny.
The marriage of blogging and shopping
August 28, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
If you feature product reviews in your blog (or website), Chitika has a new product that looks extremely promising. Called ShopLinc, this is a really sweet way of marrying the products you are already talking about with an online store custom tailored to your content. In their words, “your shop features content from your website, blog posts or articles. So it’s not just another shop, its your shop with your content.”
When Wikipedia stops being a wiki, what then?
August 28, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
The BBC has an article describing the pending decision that “page edits will no longer be immediately applied to pages but will instead have to be approved by an administrator before they become visible.” If this decision is put into place, it would then make Wikipedia simply another ordinary website, where users have some level of participation, but it’s certainly no longer a true wiki at that point.
Some funny SEO definitions by Orion
August 26, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
In my previous post, I pointed you to some tutorials by Orion that are quite intense. However one tiny link in one of those tutorials led me to a couple of other posts he’s made that are simply hysterical. Orion has created a few new words that help define some of the things that we, as SEOs, and bloggers may be “infected with”. I certainly hope none of these terms apply to me, but if they do, I apologize.
What LSI really is – and what it is not
August 26, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
Orion has kindly created several tutorials (and is in the process of creating more) to shed light on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), as well as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). LSI has been discussed in SEO forums for a few years, but I’m not sure anyone has ever really understood it. (I never even heard of SVD until tonight – sounds like a disease to me. Anyway, reading Orion’s tutorials lets me know for sure that I have never understood LSI – and I possibly never will).
Hundreds of SEO Interviews
August 25, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 67 Comments
I love getting to know fellow SEOs a little better by reading interviews of them. So I went on a quest to find as many SEO interviews as I could. No doubt I’ve also left some out, but if so, then it’s completely unintentional (blame the search engines). Feel free to let me know if you think some should be added, and I’ll edit this post accordingly. I do keep this list updated frequently, so it should always be fresh with new interviews added as I discover them.
Repeat after me: It is all about the niche and the long tail
August 23, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 5 Comments
For a while now, I’ve been beating the drums about concentrating on the long tail. Of course, 70 million others have done so as well. If you still haven’t listened to me or any of those other folks, maybe you should stop for a minute and reconsider embracing the concept.
IE7 Lockdown – List of CSS changes
August 22, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
The IEBlog reports that IE7 has been locked down for shipping and they list all of the CSS changes/fixes they’ve made. Some include:
SMS magazine Fall 2006
August 22, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Received my Search Marketing Standard magazine the other day – the Fall issue. These guys seem to be getting better with each issue they put out. At first I was disappointed because it was so thin, but they managed to pack some decent articles in a small amount of space. So, if you didn’t get yours, here’s what you missed.
Great threads from other bloggers today
August 21, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 5 Comments
I have nothing to say today, but other bloggers have posts today that you shouldn’t miss. So I’ll just link you over to them.
