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Looking Under My Blogging Bed  

:: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 ::

Bear with me folks. I'm cleaning up my room (backlog of email) and finding all the stuff I hid under the bed (ran past or saved for later) in the "for the blog" pile.

(Can you tell I have kids?)

Packed Closet

Top of the heap is a hearty congrats to Andy Beal and the crew at Search Engine Lowdown for winning the Marketing Sherpa Best blog on online marketing award. We're all jealous you know.

Gerry has been talking to Bryan. If you're on the Web, you're in sales

     "If I’m asked to examine a website, one of the first things I look for is how well it’s selling what it’s got. Most of the time, it’s not doing the job very well."

The folks at Web Design Plaza dropped me a line and I liked their site. If you're a web designer, especially a freelance one, you may want to register yourself with these folks. Unique, too, is where they put the form for people to fill out to find web designers. They offer a large variety of areas of expertise, which helps narrow down customer searching.

Time to look underneath your site search hood. Seek but you won't always find

     "One in three attempts to find information online fails, and poor search results within websites are the primary culprit, says Jakob Nielsen, user experience expert and co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group.


Links Around the World

For the research enthusiast, and anyone who writes articles for the Web. Escher Staircases on the World Wide Web

     "Links on the Web and citation relations between scientific articles can both be described as mathematical graphs. Yet, there is one major difference between the two. The World Wide Web is in principle a bidirectional graph, i.e. links between nodes can go from node n1 to node n2 and vice versa. An article citation graph, on the other hand, is in principle unidirectional. If article a1 cites article a2, then it almost never occurs that article a2 also cites article a1. Certainly, it seems impossible that article a1 cites article a2, a2 cites a3, a3 cites a4 and a4 cites a1l."

How to get good links. Link Building Course

     "Contacting and requesting reciprocal links from each of the target sites individually is a time-consuming process that, for best results, should be done by hand, one at a time. The goal is to establish a professional, search engine friendly and mutually beneficial relationship with the right link partners for your business"

Okay. That's one corner of the room.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 6/09/2004 08:56:58 AM

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