1. 48% of Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs Are Managed With WordPress When you consider that there are is an enormous amount of alternative content manage systems available, this statistic speaks volumes about WordPress popularity. If you decide to go with WordPress, you will definitely be with good company. The New Read more…
What better place to get SEO advice? Google.com is the 800 Lb Gorilla of Search. If it’s not on Google – it doesn’t exist. From Google.com’s article “Do you need an SEO?”: Before beginning your search for an SEO, it’s a great idea to become an educated consumer and get Read more…
Advertising is becoming more and more annoying, offensive, and dysfunctional. Often pages don’t even load correctly because of the advertising. Many websites use 3rd party advertising sources – that from one page, many other pages can be loaded. The average webpage is now greater than 1 MB! Checkout these stats Read more…
The internet is in a very sad state. Recent measures introduced by governments around the world, including C-51, TPP, and previous bills introduced such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), threaten the rights to a free and open internet. However, much less talked about is the current state of Read more…
Before getting into an SEO campaign – you must think – do you really want a lot of traffic? Many sites, such as financial news blogs, and others, may want as much traffic as they can handle. But if you’re a small biz, or a local restaurant, maybe you just Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in China said on Tuesday they had arrested about 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Internet security”, as the government moves to tighten controls on the Internet. Since taking over in 2013, President Xi Jinping has led an increasingly harsh crackdown on China’s Internet, which the Read more…
From the perspective of Internet users, the abstract world of online activity is not necessarily tied to geographic and political boundaries, but it does rest on physical infrastructure inseparable from geography. Geopolitics is naturally interwoven into the evolution of these policies, according to a report the US think tank Stratfor released on Friday. Even though no single body dictates or Read more…
Google Trends is a great way to get a ‘pulse’ of the internet. Google provides detailed analysis of trending keyword data and more which can be helpful to understand why users are not searching for your site (because they are looking at sports games or politics). But why not incorporate Read more…
The funny thing about SEO is that the users need to know what to ‘search’ for. Many do not understand this and pay a lot of money for SEO and especially to optimize for certain terms, when there can be many customers who don’t know to search for the term. Read more…