Sometimes all the buzz about social media can make it it seem as if SEO is dead. Sometimes the daily focus on implementing SEO can make it seem as if the social media buzz is about some planet in a different universe. In reality, neither is true -- yet. Image by FindYourSearch via Flickr [...]
Google+, Facebook and Twitter are the big three in Social Media I've had my Google+ (G+) account for about a month now, so I thought I would take a step back and look at my personal social media landscape to get some perspective. My Landscape I've been on Facebook and Twitter for roughly [...]
Zoomerang - Create Online Surveys The results from the first survey, where I asked what topic you would like my next blog post to be on, were inconclusive. By inconclusive I mean I only received two, one of which is not safe for work. This made me think of what motivates me to [...]
I'm not a writer, I'm a web developer, so blog posts don't come easily to me every time. Usually, my blog post topics here have been about things of a geeky nature, which is something I can get a little excited about since I like what I do for a living. The first few came [...]
Image by Smithsonian Institution via Flickr Rich Snippet is a form of structured data that Google can use on its search results pages. It allows for a consistent, attractive display of information. The concept has been around since 2009, but has been slow to evolve perhaps because of foot-dragging on Google's part, and [...]
The Farmer Update Image via CrunchBase Google calls it Panda, but most web developers outside of Google are calling it the Farmer Update. The idea is to punish websites that are "Content Farms", or in layman's terms, websites that do little more than copy content from other sites and stuff pages full of [...]
Image via CrunchBase The old saying, "Less is More" applies to designing for mobile devices more than almost anything else I can think of. When you're presenting information on such a small screen, you want to narrow your focus to as few elements as possible. A Few Years Ago: Speed Just a [...]
