It seems every major corporation and conglomerate has grokked on to social media as a broadcasting tool. As a result, there’s a drive for businesses of all types and sizes to make the leap from ‘broadcasting at’ to ‘communicating with’. It’s a great idea for businesses and entrepreneurs to get inside the minds of their [...]
I’ve been having an unrequited love affair with semicolons for some time now. Oh, if you look through my posts you won’t be likely to find any; I haven’t been comfortable that I’m using them correctly when I write. That is, until now. Inspired by a 2009 post on Daggle titled conjunction complex sentence misfunction [...]
If you haven’t heard, I’m involved in the Extreme Website Makeover project. Extreme Website Makeover is a joint project with Hosting Nation, Oceanside Web TV, Fusion Creative, Square Eyes Media, and Harbour City SEO. We’re currently working with Robbin’s Wreaths of Parksville and providing them with a FREE state of the art e-commerce system for [...]
In the last post, I mentioned the importance of qualifying your search engine marketing firm in various disciplines. You wouldn’t take your car to a brake specialist to get the oil changed, and you shouldn’t go with a marketing firm that doesn’t specialize in link building or SEO. To round up, today I want to [...]
The Open Directory Project (also known as DMOZ) is a free directory created and hosted by the Netscape Communication Corporation (remember Netscape? They’re now part of Time Warner’s AOL). The ODP has lost favour with webmasters and search professionals over the past few years, mainly due to two reasons. The first is the theory that [...]