Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, We’re currently working on a most awesome website for a truly talented guitar player. One of the things he does is teach people to play their favorite songs, and one of the popular songs he teaches is a 1976 hit called More Than A Feeling by Boston. I vaguely remembered […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! As readers know, Mike Blumenthal’s blog is one of our favorite reads on the web. He’s got a constant stream of meaty, useful data about local search issues running there. The tone, in general, is scholarly and to-the-point. For example, his most recent post is comparing Linnaeus’ creation of binomial […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Looking back some 5, 6, 7 years, do you remember when other media began to take on the look of web pages? Magazine articles with layouts that looked like a masthead/main body/left nav menu combo? T.V. commercials with cursor-like arrows zipping around on them to draw your attention to various […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, This past week, I read with tremendous interest, Kim Krause Berg’s post on her bad Usability Experience attempting to file for financial aid for her child who is about to start college. Kim lives in Pennsylvania and her state is requiring parents to file for this service online, despite the […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, Several times in the last month, I’ve found myself explaining to potential clients the difference between a website and a blog. To some, the answer may seem old hat, but I like to get back to the basics whenever I can here on the SEOigloo Blog so that I’m making […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, Several times a month, I have the pleasure of hearing from eBay sellers and eBay store owners who are considering leaving eBay. Some of the folks I hear from have only been making efforts on eBay for a few months. Others have been at it for years. Yet, motivations for […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, One of my favorite tasks is website redesign. A potential client phones or writes with a URL and the moment comes when I open up their homepage. In the first 2-3 seconds of this action, what goes into my eyes on that homepage makes an impression on my mind. After […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, Today’s post contains a question for you, my valued readers. In doing some Google queries in the main Google index, I came across something quite peculiar in the results. My query was for therapist berkeley ca (so, of a local nature) and the following indented result for one of my […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, This is just a quick pointer to David Mihm’s post about the importance of flat website architecture. The folks at SEOmoz liked it so much, they moved it onto the front of their blog – a big, and deserved, compliment. The basic premise is such an important one for web […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Matt McGee’s extremely good post about Google maps at gas station pumps answers my title question with a big, huge ‘no’. Please, take a gander at Matt’s list of reasons why putting Google maps at the pump is unlikely to be the success Google must be hoping for. Matt predicts […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! A couple of days ago, I was assisting a client with getting her business listed in Google’s Local Business Center and Yahoo’s Local service. This client is a medical services provider with admirable skills in her profession, yet not terribly comfortable with technology, so part of our contract with her […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Well, this has been a crazy week in our industry.

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! I am honored to be featured in today’s business section of the Press Democrat, the major local newspaper, owned by the New York Times. Read this article on Solas Web Design and one of my hobby projects. I was contacted by Nathan Halverson as he was doing some research on […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! One of the most enjoyable aspects for me of doing a website redesign is that I know the end product is going to be a resource of far greater value to the public. This is what we stress to new potential clients – the concept of offering more value to […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I was delighted to be contacted recently by Christine Churchill, who is the president of Key Relevance and a very highly respected speaker at such conferences as Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster World Publishers Conference and High Rankings Seminars. Her experience and authority are truly impressive, and she is a valued […]