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I guess I'm nerdy….and I guess I'm proud!

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! What you see here is my official nerd score. As it turns out, I’m nerdier than my friend, Rand over at 14th Colony. In point of fact, according to this latest meme that’s going around the blogosphere, I rate like this: 40% scored higher (more nerdy), 2% scored the same, […]

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Spellcheck – Friend or Foe?

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! When you spend as much time writing as I do, you are bound to make your mistakes here and there, but I’m a real stickler for correct orthography. Spelling errors make any document look unpolished and unprofessional, and beyond this, Google has patent applications filed that seem to indicate that […]

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Making small business lemonade out of Internet lemons.

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Matt McGee has just put up a truly thought-provoking post at Small Business SEM entitled When the web is a small business enemy. I recommend reading this, and I’d like to do some out-loud thinking about this subject here. The basic point of Matt’s post is that there are certain […]

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Honesty is the best policy in small business

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I’ve had craigslist.org on the brain for the past month or so, as my husband and I are considering a move. My dream living arrangement is a tiny house with a big yard. It has to be in the country, it has to have a bathtub, it has to be […]

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Get your own official blogging mug – free!

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! What’s your favorite blogging drink? I’d bet everyone has one. For me, my blogging thoughts flow more rapidly when I’ve got a nice creamy cup of Irish Breakfast tea perched beside my laptop. I think more clearly, I feel more comfortable, I feel I can really focus on what I’m […]

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My 10 Comments on Blog Commenting

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! During the past year or so, we’ve begun building blogs for our clients. Once we’ve created a blog for one of them, I spend an hour or so teaching them how to use the blog and what its functions are. One of the things most of my clients have really […]

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Designing Add to Cart buttons – Getting down to details

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! This list of 107 Add to Cart buttons was recently put up by Jason Billingsly, and Bill Slawski called my attention to it in his Cre8asite Forums post. I’ve put up a little sampling here of Add to Cart buttons we’ve created for e-commerce clients over the years, and though […]

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ProHunt – Monstrous Killers, May 2007 update, Pt. Reyes Deer

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! For my SEO/Small business readers, please continue on to my SEO category for articles on that subject. This article is intended for all readers who are continuing to look for information and answers regarding the upcoming extermination of the beautiful Fallow & Axis Deer of Point Reyes, California.

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Indispensible SEO Baby Steps

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! This week, I read and enjoyed Jill Whalen’s Search Engine Land article Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. I recommend that you read it, but I would also like to offer a differing opinion here that’s been on my mind since I perused her post. Jill’s basic, and true, point is […]

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New Meme: Things I wish I could be more serious about

But, Mom, he started it! Yes, it’s another friendly meme brought to you by us silly web industries folks. Barry Schwartz started this one, and then Kim Krause Berg challenged everyone at the Cre8asite forum to respond. First, I have to say, Kim, now I have no one to tag. I think everyone I know […]

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Craving custom? Craft creative, comprehensive content!

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! It’s no secret that small business owners share the common goal of yearning to earn money via their websites. Whether you are making your own products, reselling items you buy from a wholesaler, running a hotel, offering landscaping services or guided birdwatching tours, here are two big challenges that face […]

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