Archive for September, 2009

Pirate SEO Advice

Friday, September 18th, 2009

In honour of International Talk Like a Pirate Day (19 Sept), today's SEO Skeptic post is brought to you by Cap'n Long John K'yword, a veteran of pillage, terror and search engine optimization on the high seas.  The Cap'n is here to briefly offer some practical pirate solutions to a few common SEO problems, with some other nuggets of search marketing advice.

Avast! Me Rankings Are in Davy Jones' Locker!

Afore ye were riding pretty, the finest sloop on the digital seas you were. Then your pretty rankings fell to the briny deep!  Gar, what's a sailor to do? Continue reading this post…

Tweets That Annoy Me

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

This slightly cranky post is geared toward people that have a Twitter account that they use chiefly for business or professional purposes.  I personally think that the type of tweets enumerated below are bad form even for the most closely connected friends, but if you don't care about - or even have - an online reputation you're fostering then by all means blather all you want.  But if you want to properly engage with other professionally-facing users on Twitter, you'll want to think about the types of things your tweeting, and to avoid the following common faux pas.
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