February 2007

If you are not really sure what all this SEO talk is about, here is an article that explains it very clearly, in everyday english.  I wrote this a few months ago, as an answer to a querie in a forum where I am moderator.  I think it is one of the best analagies for SEO that I have seen. Always make sure your site is optimized for the search engines so when the spiders follow those links to your site, that everything works and makes sense to both the spiders and to people. This is a must for an effective web presence. If […]

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been talking to owners and managers about putting their website on one of our directories. Many have been very interested, but I may have to turn many of them down. Not that I want to. After all, they were willing to pay me to be in the directory. I may have to turn them down because I told them that their web site was currently hurting them more than it was helping them. That is, it was poorly designed, confusing, slow, and unattractive or it didn’t include sufficient content to interest or convince anyone to pick up