Hi Everyone! Charlie here. Since I already have a fan (right back at ya Molly!) I figured it was about time to get in on the blogging. My day starts off with mom and dad in the office. Then as everyone gets here its my job to greet them hello and show them to their desk. Sometimes I let them throw my… [read more]
Many are calling it "the end of an era" in the Search Engine Marketing blogosphere. Danny is in fact leaving Search Engine Watch, but soon heading into a bold, new land of his own - Search Engine Land -- which launches on December 11th. Along with Danny comes the committed Chris Sherman, Barry Schwartz… [read more]
Where should you put your site navigation? The Internet can be a powerful tool for just about anyone but it can also be a cumbersome experience. Your site can have the stickiest content on the web but if your visitors don't know how to access that content, they'll just get lost or more likely move on. Navigation… [read more]
"Over 800" Google Answers participants (though not 1,000) probably explains Google's decision to shut the service down. Google Answers was simply never as popular as Yahoo! Answers, which has more than 50 times the market share. Why did Google fail? I took a look at the two services and came away with… [read more]
Online merchants should know that while a lot of people are jumping for Black Friday sales, there's also the recently popular trend of online shopping the following Monday, which was dubbed "Cyber Monday" after online retail sales following Thanksgiving jumped substantially. With a long holiday weekend… [read more]
Matt Cutts is Google's most public face to webmasters around the globe. There has always been a lot of speculation and rumors about Matt, what he does, what he did before joining Google and just about every other thing you can think of. After seeing Matt at PubCon Las Vegas recently I thought it would… [read more]
Got Verizon? Your cell phone multimedia experience is about to get much better. In a partnership with Verizon, Google has agreed to deliver YouTube content to Verizon-serviced cellular phones (subscription required). It was only two weeks ago when CEO Eric Schmidt stated that "Your mobile phone should… [read more]
This is a brief tutorial on how to create a reflective or shiny logo effect. This has been a design trend that has been appearing more and more throughout Web 2.0 sites. *With this tutorial I am assuming you know some of the basics of Photoshop, like how to feather a selection or merge layers. Whats… [read more]
Online retailers, take note. It's time to begin preparing for November 24, 2007. Black Friday isn't only for in-store purchases only -- there's just too many people to compete with. Why face the long lines and pushing-and-shoving if you don't have to? This past Black Friday saw a record number of… [read more]
Actually, if they do, it's news to me. But I found this comment on their blog about Black Friday extremely interesting: Start by typing "Black Friday" into Ask.com's Blog & Feed search. You'll find blog postings everywhere about Black Friday sales. See a blog you like? Just hit that pull-down menu… [read more]
