Thoughts

Everytime a new social button is released, some webmasters start complaining about how they have lost their search engine rankings after adding it to their website. Let’s make no mistake about it. Adding too many social buttons to a website can slow your site down unless you use Javascript tricks to load the buttons on [...]

If you have watched any TV recently, there is a good chance you have seen those Geico commercials about whether the service can save you 15% or more in car insurance. These commercials are useless and not even too funny. But they do apply to many things that Google does. Take the idea of Google [...]

Everyone who has followed Google closely for a while knows about some of the issues the search engine has had to deal with (especially spammers and black hats). No search engine system is game proof regardless of its algorithm or whom they are copying their results from. Forbes and JC Penny have already been penalized [...]

Being penalized for having duplicate content on your website is never fun. As Google aims to fight off spammers, more websites will get flagged as being spammy or having thin content. If your business is reliant on your website to stay afloat, getting penalized that way by Google can put a lot of stress on [...]

As someone who has had to go back and forth with many web hosts over the quality of their service, I can tell you that you do not want to deal with a non-responsive, poor host. Many small business owners want to save as much money as possible hosting their websites. Recently, I had a [...]

Let’s face it. A lot of people use social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to keep up with what’s going on in their world. But it’s nice having the option to get the latest news from Google News. Unfortunately, Google News has been anything but relevant recently. Google News used to be one [...]

Google Instant is finally here. Google is all about speed these days, so why not increase the speed in which people go about finding information online. Not everyone is a fan of Google Instant experience, but that could be due to it being very different from what the old search used to be. Google has [...]

A wise man once told me that if something was easy, everybody would be doing it. That really applies to all aspects of life. Most people are not willing to step out of their comfort zone and endure hardships to achieve their goals. After all, why do that when you can take short-cuts. Unfortunately, short-cuts [...]

Sites such as Mashable and TechCrunch are great case studies to go through and learn things from. These folks have made content promotion an art. Each article posted on those sites gets hundreds of retweets and tens of likes. It does come down to their audience and writers, but both sites have done a magnificent [...]

As someone who has been involved in the Internet industry since 2001, I can tell you that no ranking in safe when it comes to Google. You can be the #1 site for a term one day only to find yourself out of the top 30 the very next day. If you have taken time [...]