Yahoo Wants Me On The 1st Page Of Google?

Recently I’ve been increasingly getting contact form messages with “SEO Service” offers that “guarantee to get me on the first page of Google”. Interestingly, most of them supply www.yahoo.com as their website URL. WTF?

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Brands. They are everywhere. Cars, electronics, sportswear… Even food. In every-day life, wherever a product is publicly visible, the manufacturers take care their brand is visible, too. When we drive our car, we showcase their brand. When we carry a newly bought computer home, we showcase their brand on the package. Heck, where I live, even the supermarket plastic bag is showcasing the supermarket’s brand. In our every-day “off-line” life, we don’t really expect a product – any product – to come unbranded.¹ What about our on-line life? Read the rest of this entry »

1. There are exceptions, of course. The branding needs to be adequate. Nobody would buy an Armani smoking with a fat shiny Armani sign on the back, even if Armani may like the idea of a dinner banquet full of Armani logos. [↩]

After delivering to the WordPress community one of the first and most comprehensive table of contents plugins for WordPress, hackadelic.com extends the content navigation experience to any Internet user regardless of the viewed website via its newest provision: TOCMonkey. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I’ve posted about the pros and cons of basing WordPress plugin functionality on JavaScript. Now Ted has written a follow up article responding to mine, from which I’ve got the slight impression he might have mistaken my post for a critique of his plugin, which it definitely wasn’t meant to be. Besides, there are also some clear misinterpretations of my arguments in his post. Here I’m taking the time to hopefully correct both aspects. Read the rest of this entry »

This post elaborates on the sense and nonsense of technology choices for a WordPress plugin implementation. It compares two diametrically different technological foundations, PHP vs JavaScript, for WordPress plugins.¹ Read the rest of this entry »

1. Of course, every WordPress plugin will ultimately contain at least some administrative portions of PHP code in order to hook into WordPress. I’m referring to the main computing though, and whether it takes place in PHP or JavaScript code. [↩]

MS Windows – is there a more controversial operating system? Everybody seems to “hate” it, but yet, one way or the other, it seems we can’t live without it. Vista was a disaster (guess why I know), but is Windows 7 really that good as its heavy marketing tries to make us believe?

In this guest post, Bob Newman shares his experience with Windows 7 compared to Windows XP. Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, me hearties, it’s Christmas again. Another year almost over. I hope the year was as exciting to all of you as it was for me, and wish everybody a blessed Christmas Time, and a smooth entry into a Great New Year! May Santa Claus be generous to all of us!

Of all attributes a product or service can have, quality is one of the most mistaken ones. From a sales viewpoint, quality seems to be natural. Everybody claims to provide stuff of “premium quality”. So much so that we, as buyers, seem to take quality for granted. Heck we don’t even attempt to demand it. Read the rest of this entry »

URL shortening, and URL shortener services, are evolving rapidly into a real hype. And while they do make sense with Twitter (due to their 140 characters per tweet limitation), they are not all that harmless from a SEO perspective.

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In my prior post I talked about why it is a systemic property of making-money-quick programs to not provide a noteworthy oportunity for making any real money. Now making these considerations is not rocket science. How come there are so many who fall for this shit in spite of everything?

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