I’m a bit of a typography nut…  it’s why I linger around print and and graphic design (yes, you can often see me loitering in the type section of the library scanning ancient books on type and avdvertising).  I get to see literally hundreds, if not thousands of creative type uses. And I am jealous.  [...]

It’s surprising to me how many websites are still being built without a thought to future online marketing efforts. What I find especially surprising are the number of web development frameworks and tools that were built without a single thought of search engine optimization. When I develop a website these days, whether it’s for personal [...]

Back in March of 2008, Time published an article titled How Google Earth Ate Our Town.  Big news for our “old coal mining town” of 78.000.  We had replaced San Francisco, the 13th largest city in the US as the capital of Google Earth. I’ll let you read the article, because I want to talk [...]

In my other life as marketing director for Hosting Nation, I have the luxury of working in a development environment before placing anything live.  It’s a nice benefit. We can test design, applications and software and pretty much everything. If you were a fly on the wall, you would hear three words at least once [...]

Canonicalization is a big word, essentially meaning standardization or normalization.  In the context of SEO, it’s best described by Wikipedia. URL normalization (or URL canonicalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner… wikipedia Even more simply, it’s a set of rules written in regular expressions that instruct browsers [...]