I”m trying to figure out when marketing for businesses became a nice-to-have rather than a need-to-have? It”s obviously a common issue faced within the “local” design community- I use that in a loose “Canada wide” sense. And really, it has to be a problem faced within all shops of our size. A few reasons for …
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It must be that time of year as dually noted in the title – application time. Lately we have been inundated with applications, drop-ins, resume fly-bys and phone calls for ‘the hiring manager’. So I decided it would be a good idea to give some feedback to prospective job hunters. 1) We are a creative …
So we had a contest running on our website, (this website right here) since it’s launch way back when. Basically, you could draw something with your mouse according to the posted theme and if your drawing was selected you would win $55. It failed. Miserably. F.A.I.L. The only drawings that were ever submitted were drawings …
I fell asleep last night dreaming of my next blog post. I think that must be a common ‘issue’ that ‘bloggers’ especially ‘mega-bloggers’ like myself have to wrestle with. I’ve written three blog posts, so I am therefore calling myself a ‘mega blogger’ now. I count entitlement as a great quality to have. Not at …
Well so far I have no fans at all not a #1 or a #2, but that’s ok. I’m not going to let my narcissism get in the way of my goals – again. Not really sure what I should talk about today, but let’s go with the iPad. Normally, I hate Apple. I think …
So most people have New Year’s resolutions where they commit to losing weight and giving up vices such as drugs, smoking and the Internets and just generally improving their life. Well I don’t smoke and I find that September is really my New Years. So for my September New Years (SNY) (BTW SNY starts after …
Google and Personalized Search Early this month Google announced that they would be tailoring everyone’s search results based on their search history even when users are not signed into Google. Personalized results are nothing new on Google. The search giant has been customizing peoples SERPs (search engine results pages) for quite a while already, but …
When reading about web hosts on their own websites they all seem to be the perfect host to partner up with. We are of course not that easily fooled and understand that many of them have a couple of weak spots. To ensure that you do not sign up with a poor host it might …
While Google’s Matt Cutts has certainly provided a wealth of helpful tips via the company’s Webmaster Central YouTube channel, he is not the only one to do so. Greg Grothaus of the Search Quality Team has posted a video (along with a presentation on the Webmaster Central Blog) covering duplicate content and multiple site issues …
Why doesn’t site submission move my site to the top? Getting your site listed with search engines means only that it will be included in their indices. Improving the position in search engines’ result pages is a different task. This task involves optimization of your pages for the targeted keywords, improvement of site link popularity …