Today is my first day ranked as an Alexa top 100,000 site. When I started blogging, I didn’t really know much about what all the rankings meant, but I knew that I wanted to get my Alexa Rank in the top 100,000 because that was their cutoff for caring about your site.
I have read several articles about how Alexa ranking was useless, but never… Read the rest
Webpage design is critical to effectively capturing your reader’s attention and keeping them on your page. If a reader arrive and nothing catches their eye, they are likely to bounce right away. When there is too much going on, a reader might not know where to start, get frustrated, and… Read the rest
Most content marketers (bloggers) know branding is one of the most important aspects of building trust, authority, and a following. Without a strong brand, it is easy to be forgotten.
While the writing style of an author or the quality of a product are huge aspects in branding, there is nothing more important to branding than the name.
When… Read the rest
Ever since I started using computers, I’ve always been interested in ASCII art. I remember how cool I thought I was as a 10 year old making faces like };^> (the devil). When I found the internet the level of ASCII art stepped it up a few notches. Being able to draw crazy pictures in IRC… Read the rest
If you have a blog or a product webpage, SEO is something you’re probably concerned about. Who wouldn’t want to end up on the front page of Google?
There are countless theories behind what helps your SERP rank. In my opinion, anything that changes the way you write isn’t worth trying because if you aren’t putting your readers first, there is no point in blogging.
So how can you optimize… Read the rest
If you have been on twitter at all in the last 3 days you would have noticed a new trending topic called Google Wave. When I first saw it, I figured it some goofy Twitter trending topic like #ChrisBrownsBowTie. I wasn’t ready for what I was about to find out…
Yesterday, I was browsing Lifehacker and came across their Read the rest
Unless you’re a well established blogger or website designer, you’re probably constantly looking for ways to improve your readers’ experience and keep them coming back. Self-proclaimed gurus make all sorts of (often) bogus claims about what they best way to setup your site is, but they never back up these claims with real data
Enter Smashing Magazine, one of the premier sources for all that is graphic and design related. … Read the rest
I have a simple confession that many people can identify with. I am an music junkie… I can’t help it; I would listen to music 24/7 if my work and family let me.
Last month, I was really high on the Spotify Music Player, but Spotify noticed I was listening from a US ip and put a 14 day limit on… Read the rest
According to Alexa, Craigslist.org reaches just under 2% of the global internet users everyday. That is a huge number of people. When I first heard about Craigslist in Details magazine over 4 years ago, I had a completely different impression of Craigslist than I do now.
That article told the story of girls selling their worn panties for outrageous sums of money; they even charged extra to remove them in… Read the rest
For someone unfamiliar with the internet and even some who are, proxy servers might sound scary and complicated. You might think proxy servers are just for hackers or people who are up to no good (and you are probably right), but your opinion might be changing soon.
In very basic terms, a proxy server is a server that allows someone browsing the web to be (semi) anonymous to the sites… Read the rest
