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SEO Insanity : Confusing Correlation With Causation

June 18, 2009 by Diane Aull · 1 Comment 

Something I see all the time from both my fellow webmasters and from search engine optimizers is the problem of confusing correlation with causation. Frankly, it drives me nuts.

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Refresh, Renew, Redesign

June 4, 2009 by Diane Aull · 6 Comments 

Maybe it’s the time of year, maybe it’s the economy, maybe it’s just coincidence. For whatever reason, a lot of companies I know are either actively redoing their websites or at least contemplating a makeover.

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Rules of Thumb for Choosing an SEO

May 19, 2009 by Diane Aull · 5 Comments 

The question comes up periodically, and it did again recently on one of the forums I frequent. A member wanted to hire an SEO, and needed to know how to choose. How could he tell who would do a good job at a fair price?

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Metrics That Matter

April 7, 2009 by Diane Aull · 2 Comments 

OK, in my previous article, I talked about all the reasons why search engine rankings already aren’t a good measure of success — and why I think they’re only going to become less significant as time goes by. And I promised this time I’d talk more about metrics that I think are more useful to measure than rankings. So here goes…

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Pulling Rank

March 17, 2009 by Diane Aull · 11 Comments 

It’s my first post here at SEO Scoop (hi, y’all!) so I suppose I should take a moment to introduce myself to those who don’t know me yet. My name is Diane; online I’ve been known as Torka since the early 1990’s (and I’ll answer to either). I’ve been doing this “website thing” in one capacity or another for around 15 years.

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