Archive | January, 2009

Dinobot SEO: Grimlock’s Insight Into Search Marketing

The Dinobots were always my favorite characters on the Transformers cartoon. I don’t know if it was because they were huge, dumb, and always breaking stuff, or if it was just because like every 5-year-old boy, I had a love of dinosaurs. No matter the reason, I could not get enough of the episodes that [...]

January 29, 2009 by | 2 Comments

Google Going Pac-Man on All Other Search Engines

I saw this data the other day, so I thought I’d share it with you. You remember Pac-Man, don’t you? He would bust out of this prison-like cell and then start eating up everything in site. It brings back memories just thinking about it. And Ms. Pac-Man? Yeah, she was smoking hot. But I digress… [...]

January 25, 2009 by | 0 Comments

A Caveman’s Approach to 301 Redirects for SEO

301 Redirects By definition, a permanent redirect. Use these to redirect users and search engines from old URLs to new URLs. 302 Redirects By definition, a temporary redirect. Use these when temporarily deactivating a URL or moving a URL to a new location. If you don’t understand any of that, just remember this quote I [...]

January 23, 2009 by | 1 Comment

An Exhaustive Explanation of 301 Redirects for SEO

Redirects. This is the one topic that continues to evade e-commerce dev teams and online marketers. The concept is actually very simple. A redirect is a piece of code that directs traffic from one URL to another. Here is a list of the most common redirects and when you should use them: 301 Redirect: By [...]

January 23, 2009 by | 2 Comments

How Zeno’s Paradox Relates to SEO

Today I got word that one of my clients does not want to continue with SEO for their site. Now, I don’t need the money. I’m not starving. Business is good. I’m doing fine. I would not be upset if the client just chose to go another direction (i.e. get a new SEO expert). But [...]

January 22, 2009 by | 0 Comments

The SEO Blog You Don’t Want to Be On

It’s 2009, and people still suck at SEO. This especially goes for e-commerce sites and online retailers in pretty much every vertical. I simply can’t believe how most marketing experts simply don’t get it. When it comes to title tags, meta tags, Alt tags, and header tags, you need to listen to your SEO team. [...]

January 21, 2009 by | 0 Comments