Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Within the SEO community, a general groan goes up every time someone announces that Search Engine Optimizers are crooks, snakeoil salesmen, spammers, scammers, etc. This problem seems to arise repeatedly because of: 1)The genuine ignorance of the author, very often excusable 2)A wish to show off 3)A legitimate complaint against […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, My friend, David Mihm, just put up a really super post about the best advice for small businesses he gleaned from SES San Jose 2007. This very valuable list includes some quick pointers about Social Media, Local Search and a variety of other areas smart small business owners will be […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! A friendly new acquaintance of mine, Donna Fontenot, just published a podcast (you know, one of those things you download and listen to, a bit like a radio show) entitled Should You Work From Home?. If you are considering quitting your day job to work from home on the Internet, […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I hope this will be of interest to all of my small business owner friends. A Quick Overview of Search Engine Strategies SES is Danny Sullivan’s traveling Search Engine Marketing seminar that takes place in different parts of the U.S. throughout the year. This week, the seminar comes to San […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Back in April, I blogged about a pet project we had just launched: a little website selling a downloadable instruction booklet for making a Mexican folk dress that I had designed. I love sewing and crafting, and though I did put a lot of effort into the creation both of […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! First, my thanks to jeweler, Kelly Dear, for granting her permission to use her business Two Cat Studio in this study of how small businesses benefit from a professional redesign of their websites. This is a talented jeweler. In her Flowery Branch, Georgia studio, Dear handcrafts jewelry from sterling silver […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I considered entitling this post “Phly Phishers Spham Sphinn”, but when I said it out loud, I sounded exactly like Daffy Duck. The popularity of Danny Sullivan’s new Social Media site Sphinn continues to soar, but with fame comes the agony of massive amounts of spam. My jaw dropped tonight […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! Danny Sullivan, the father of search marketing, has just launched his new social media site, Sphinn.com. I was rather surprised by the lack of pre-promotion around this big new entity, but the word is quickly getting out about this niche SM hangout. Sphinn is like Digg Track your friends, leave […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! During the past year, I’ve become a fan of Anita Campbell’s writing over at Small Business Trends. A recent article prompts me to alert small business owners to the absolute necessity of avoiding any web developer whose contract states that the owner of your website is the developer, not you! […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! Today, I’ve launched my most recent pet project website: www.dollkind.com. Chances are, if you played with dolls in your 20th century childhood, you will enjoy a visit to this new website which features articles on favorite and famous dolls. But, even if you’re not particularly interested in dolls, I think […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Racism, sexism, religious intolerance, prejudice and bigotry of all kinds are alive and well in the SM sphere. For the past few months, I have been investigating the Social Media sites Digg and Reddit, in an attempt to learn more about how I might involve myself with these entities to […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! We spend the majority of our time around here looking at our clients’ rankings and seeing what we can do to improve them. But, just for fun, we check out our own sometimes. Our firm, Solas Web Design, ranks at the top of Google for SEO, Web Design and Graphic […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Have you ever heard the descriptive phrase, butter wouldn’t melt in your mouth? This rather vivid statement has been around since the Middle Ages, and it basically means that the person in question is so cool, so collected, so perfectly complacent that nothing can rile them. I think this illustration […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! One of my favorite on-line buddies sent me an email today asking a question I felt deserved a blog-post-length answer. So, thanks to Lori for this good query. Lori stumbled across this website for an artist, and wanted to know if she was correct in thinking that the whole homepage […]

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 […]