Got an email and saw this on several blogs as well…
The Maryland General Assembly has passed a repeal of the Tech Tax. Now Governor (ug) O’Malley just needs to sign it, which he is expected to do. Very happy about this. Here is some more info on it…
Examiner
Tech Council of MD
Washington Post
Dataprise, [...]
I just ran across a piece about growing service firms “from the inside out”. I believe this piece was specifically written for law firms, but in running an internet marketing agency I find it just as true for my situation and clientele.
Look inward to branch out. Take a look at the firm’s top clients [...]
Another comment on an SEOmoz.org post that I made, which I am recycling as per usual:
Danny,
I will argue that all formal education is always at least 5 years behind the appropriate “real world” education. Its probably more so with fast-moving industries, but even true in more steady fields.
That all said, I think you may just [...]
I found this post on SEOmoz which referenced this post on TopRank’s blog and posted a comment. As I’ll do from time to time, I’m going to steal my own content and paste it below… my thoughts on “being famous” in the SEO community:
Lee – excellent post. I know many SEOs who spend [...]
Help repeal a bill that is currently in the Maryland General Assembly stating that sales tax of 6% must be collected on “computer services” effective July 1, 2008:
Link: Repeal MD Sales Tax on Computer Services
It will ultimately hurt small businesses b/c they are the ones who outsource and thus will pay the tax… large [...]
Just scheduled it – here are the details:
http://seo.meetup.com/75/calendar/6296144/
Other than that, I’ve been SWAMPED lately so no new posts. Honestly moving forward I will likely use this blog periodically rather than regularly. I need to stop spreading myself so thin!
Executive Summary: Six months after we moved out of our old office and “transferred” our Comcast internet service to our new office, we were still receiving invoices for the old office… plus those for the new office. Finally they’ve stopped sending those invoices, though we’re still waiting on the refund we were promised. [...]
(Non-SEO Post, but fun!)
Found this blog post about an old-school cell phone making a comeback and then found this site where you can pimp out the old-school cell phone to give it a makeover. Hilarious!
On 07/12/2006 I edited this posting. The original post related to a topic that affected my firm as well as Clickstream Marketing and Eric Van Buskirk, the firm’s President. The situation is no longer relevant, and as such neither is this post.
Best wishes to Clickstream and all other web design, development, and SEO firms that [...]
Apparently today there is much to do about Yahoo’s new layout, available at http://www.yahoo.com/preview or depending on your luck maybe at the http://www.yahoo.com home page.
I first made note of this pending new layout back in February, when it appeared as though they were testing it. I believe they placed a cookie or something on [...]
Per Matt Cutts. Wow this is fun!!! I highly suggest you give it a try right now. I knew there were lots of paid tools like this, but a free one by Google is good times.
Reminds of Yahoo’s Buzz Index but way cooler – comparisons between terms, regions, etc. Good times.
Update: [...]
Seems like most every internet marketer either has or is heavily involved with one or more directories. There are often a myriad of reasons – but one reason that I’d like to focus on is sheer quality. Typically sites of little or no value and weak business models don’t account or budget for [...]
I just read on FrontPage Webmaster that Microsoft is pulling the plug on FrontPage. They are replacing it with a number of different products, most notably (IMO) the soon-coming Microsoft Expression Web Designer. The word is second half of 2006. If its before Christmas I’d consider that early.
Supposively its big with standards and CSS. In [...]
http://www.dontlink.com/ – This is hilarious! Man oh man, I have no words!
I especially like this:
Sylvania requires linking sites to submit this Link Form. General Electric permits text links to its home page, but requires written approval for all other links to its site.
God forbid someone is directed right to the content they are looking for! [...]
Why do you think, is this guy missing the true issue at hand? MySpace is merely a the convenient medium and largest network for this type of social behavior – be it good or bad. Sure there are lots of slutty guys and girls posting sketchy photos of themselves – but is that really the [...]
I was just sent a link to a great article on Internet Marketing opinions, budgets, and spending habits on MarketingSherpa. Its a bit of a survey for 2005 and projections for 2006. In short, it seems as though PPC search engine ads are the most beloved, and organic search engine optimization is slightly [...]
Aaron Wall of SEO Book (who BTW, happens to be a great guy and really cares about helping out others) recently interviewed Matt Cutts, an engineer at Google who is pretty well-known in the SEO community. In particular, I’d like to highlight one Q&A from the interview:
Is all SEO spam?
Absolutely not–I need to do [...]
Good read. Informative, interesting, clear. No BS.
Its even free.
I just finished reading Seth Godin’s free ebook “Knock Knock – Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Building a Web Site that Works“. I think it was a nice basic overview, and a bit of an eye opener. For me, it wasn’t so much [...]
I just read an article on SEO Chat by Clint Dixon, entitled Google Revamps SERPs, for Money? Its well worth your time – at least a 10 minute skim.
Apparently Google is now experimenting with what they claim is a user experience enhancement. Mr. Dixon believes its more commercially-motivated. Me – well I’m [...]
An interesting article I found linked off of CNN’s homepage:
“Keeping enemies close at the Google Dance
It written in a very basic/general style, for someone who has essentially never even heard of SEO. In fact, they use the term “webmasters” and “search engine consultants” where one might substitute them for a term such as “SEO”, [...]
