Being Clever on the Internet
Thanks to SERPs (Search Engine Result Page) and Google’s reliance on certain methods of ranking webpages there is often limited value to actually being clever on the Internet, at least in so far as your website design is concerned. Clever multimedia, particularly lowest common denominator oriented videos, of course, is actually valuable thanks to “becoming viral,” or more specifically thanks to people who email, tweet, update status, or otherwise link to funny things. Of course, what is funny to one person is dumb or lame to another person, so it’s really sort of a random thing about what does and [...]
New Improved Google Search Features Help Writer Research
Just days after I went through the trouble of pointing everyone to d8search as a way to get improved date searching out of Google search results, Google updated the features they offer in their own native search. The homepage of Google search is the same as ever with one minor, and by minor I mean HUGE, difference. Near the upper left corner of the page you will find a harmless looking link that says, “Show Options.” Click it, and you will find two powerful choices for researching articles that you are freelance writing. The first is “Recent results” and the [...]
Google Chrome Browser Morning Coffee Extension
I downloaded Google Chrome when it first came out just like all the other technology centric types did. I was impressed with its speed and I really liked that it seemed to import my passwords from Firefox (and slightly disturbed). But, without the plug-ins that I rely on, on a daily basis, I just couldn’t use it as my regular browser, so it sat mostly unused on my desktop. Then, when the Google Updater constantly ran in the background on startup no matter how many ways I tried to disable it, I got annoyed and condemned it to the graveyard [...]
Internet Explorer Is a Big Fat Piece of Junk
A writer rants after finding that Microsoft’s lame attempt at developing a web browser has mangled his site, AGAIN!
Get Stuff Done – A Little Bit Every Day
I was way, way, behind the curve on the whole social media thing. As my favorite movie FBI agent says, “This is for little rubber people who don’t shave yet.” (Name the movie, and no, you don’t get to phone a friend.) But, whether I am right or wrong is irrelevant as my clients and potential clients see social networking, social media, or whatever they are calling these days, as a critical part of my Internet based service offerings. And so, I am scrambling to create and develop a personal social networking media presence and a professional social networking media [...]
Do Websites Even Care About Content Anymore?
A top freelance website posts an article that has no relation to its title. Accident, or slippery slope toward anything for SEO?
