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She’s a Super Tweet!

seoskin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:45:36 +0000

She's a super tweet, super tweet, she's super tweeting nooooooow!!! Everybody texting, super tweet super tweet!!

Social Media – The Illusion of Connectedness?

seoskin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:33:03 +0000

I have been running so many thoughts through my mind since returning from SESNY. What to write about? I have been almost paralyzed in the depth and breadth of topic choices. Mostly because it seems that with the plethora of bloggers now, my voice would have been merely a repeat of everything out there. Unfortunately, or maybe selfishly, part of me feels that if I am going to take time to write a blog, I don't want to just repeat what others have written, so what to write about? Then last week it hit me. The sudden evangelism surrounding all things social media. The idea that all is good and those who critique are somehow out of touch, or out of date and while some are, something struck me while reading my Facebook status posts and twitter tweets is social media truly social or does it just provide an illusion of connectedness? While it has many positives, what are its negatives? ....>

SES New York 2009 – Feedback

seoskin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:14:49 +0000

Overall, I felt a bit disappointed at this year's event. The sessions on Day 1 and 2 appeared to have little for the SEO attendees and much was a bit too basic. In addition, the charity party was on Monday night which meant that people like me, who had to come in on Tues (or late Mon) the party was out of reach and there was no Webmaster Radio Bash or anything to replace it. Happily, there were invite events that I was fortunate enough to attend and the Castle as well as the Hilton Bars for getting together to talk about life and all things SEO, SEM and Social Media. Now does that mean it was a bad conference or that I felt is had no value? Definitely not. I just feel that the lack of focus on SEO and open networking events definitely detracted from SES and so was not as exciting an event as last year, where social events abound along with new nuggets at most every session.

Live from SES NY – Day One Wrap

seoskin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:50:10 +0000

The Donger Need Food! Ok, so maybe I am showing my age here, but that eighties "Sixteen Candles" reference pretty much says it all and then some! The first day was the usual. Fast paced, lots of hellos and card swapping, socializing with old friends, meeting new people and of course "networking events". Of course networking is code for - There will be a lot of alcohol and usually without time for food. Which was the case here as well. Unfortunately, to protect the guilty umm I mean innocent those happenings will be left as memories in our minds and not shared in the blogosphere. As we say in Las Vegas, "What Happens Here, Stays Here!". It is our code.

Riddle Me This Batman! The Myths of Accessibility… 2009

seoskin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:37:10 +0000

I see articles like this one and it saddens me http://www.jboye.com/blogpost/forget-about-accessibility-in-2009/. The writer is not wrong, as I am sure the arguments he suggests are ones that are brought up in board rooms and legal departments everyday, however it saddens me to think that we need government to make people do the right things. However, I know businesses will rarely choose something only because it is the right thing, so let me tell you why it is the smart thing.

SES NY Virgin?! The TOP 10 Things I Have Learned About SES.

seoskin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:27:26 +0000

I was talking to a friend this week and he mentioned that he had been talking to someone about being an SES newbie, or virgin so to speak. He remembered that my first year, I had a kind of list of things I learned and thought maybe I should share it to help make the experience easier for new attendees. So, since SES NY is just around the corner, I thought I would do so today. Mind you this is all just my opinion, but it is what I have learned about SES conferences over the past three years. Hopefully, if it is your first conference, it will help you not feel like you just started your first day of high school. Because I know my first time, felt like that, just like that. Did I mention I was a geek and not in a cool way, in high school ;)? In fact, if it weren't for my friend who suggested this article, I might have just put my head under the covers and hid away. However, he was my first conference friend and somehow that makes the rest so much easier. So new to SES NY? Here is what I learned.

10 Ways To Rank Without Links OR PageRank

seoskin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:45:29 +0000

Links.. Links... Links.. Links here and links there! At PubCon this past year, InLinks was the newest link buying platform and though they received a strongly worded letter from Matt Cutts, my guess is that will stop few from giving inLinks a try. But I wonder sometimes, why all this focus on links when there are many things you can do to get a site to rank, straight out of the box without them. Now, I am not saying you can rank well and permanently if no one links to you. What I am saying is, with good on-site optimization, you can make it to the top ten without a single link and a PR of 0 and then you can follow that up with good white hat SEO and SEM and get there without all the fuss of chasing the link and the algo. Now I know the first people to slam me will be those who say, "have you tried to rank for the PPC...

What Does Google Know?

seoskin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:55:53 +0000

I just returned from PubCon - ok so I live in Vegas and returning just means driving home, but when I got back to my computer and started reading posts from the conference I started to see many comments on personalization and the future of search and that got me thinking about the subject from a personal level. While personalized search sounds all warm and gooey, I currently deactivate all forms of obviously tracked search (note the key term there is obvious). Yet despite my attempts...

Facebook Redesign No Bueno! Oh Where Oh Where Did Your Little Site Go?

seoskin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:19:46 +0000

Facebook is a simple site, white background, not much clutter and pretty easy to get around. The ease of the design is part of its success, at least in my humble opinion. So when I started seeing articles about how negatively large groups of people were reacting to the redesign I was curious. I mean, unless you completely changed how Facebook looked, how bad could it be?

If Content Is Google’s King – Then Valid Code Must Be Its Prince!

seoskin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:22:29 +0000

"Personally, I do think creating clean code that validates and works on many different browsers will be an important skill for webmasters and web designers." Matt Cutts September 2, 2008 @ 3:21 pm · Filed under Chrome, Google/SEO Google SEO guru Matt Cutts said something interesting yesterday, but so far it seems pretty quiet on the blog front, so maybe it went unnoticed or maybe no one cares. However, for me ...