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I fired a Hawaii marketing agency a couple of months ago. I was not a client. I'd been providing usability and SEO services to their clients since 2007. (Does that mean I quit?) I grew online business for a few of their big-name clients and received decent money for it. Everybody at the agency was … Continue reading Looking for the best Hawaii digital marketing agency
Image by Victoria Jones Follow the money, and you'll find that hot trends in design and search engine optimization are tied to our shrinking technology. What's in your pocket? This mobile, responsive design, voice search, SEO long tail article originally appeared on the Geekly Group blog. (Thanks, Archive.org for the save! This article is from … Continue reading How is responsive design connected to SEO? It’s mobile.
Because it's still relevant, I'll leave my initial robocall fix idea below. But I've had some time to think about robocalls for a few years and I have a better idea. Charge for every call. Find some amount. I'd like to make it high, like a penny. One measly cent. But others have arguments to … Continue reading Robocalls Are Easy To Fix
That SEO and usability don't flourish in a vacuum has been on my mind lately. Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum. If there's nobody to hear your pearls of SEO wisdom do they make a sound? The sound of silence sends no sales. Four cases of constructive complaining follow. Case #1 - Hire Experts + … Continue reading SEO Usability Vacuum
Remember back when Firefox 3.5.17 came out? I'll give you a clue; it was 2011. It's just a year later and the latest version of Firefox (15.0) ships with new features under the hood, including better memory handling for plugins and new "Silent, background updates," but it's not enough. When Mozilla switched Firefox to a … Continue reading Updated Extensions for Latest Firefox Update
Dear Amazon Usability Team, 1. I want to stay logged in so that 1-Click ordering is really one click. In the past, if I wanted something from Amazon, I would pop open my browser and I was conveniently already signed in to Amazon. This allowed me to 1-Click order on the fly and enabled me … Continue reading Amazon Usability Feedback – Login Practices
(Update: We have less control than ever on Facebook. Use socialfixer.com. It's the best we have.) Facebook sucks when it comes to privacy. I can't wait until somebody sues them for it and forces them to change. Maybe someday they'll realize that good usability and privacy is a great business model. Until then, here are … Continue reading How do I Remove Facebook Recent Activity from my Wall?
What plugins do you add to WordPress installs for better SEO? Use the comments to let me know what's missing from the list. (this list is old as dirt. Ignore it, please) Platinum SEO Pack - It does auto 301 redirects, canonical URLs and plenty more. Google xml sitemaps - Creates your sitemap.xml and updates … Continue reading Top 5 SEO Plugins for WordPress
Google places a real live email link to pat@example.com on the Google account login screen. Though I'm sure it's intended to improve usability it has the opposite effect. They placed the pat@example.com link smack dab in between the email (login/username) field and the password field. Keyboard savvy users normally use the tab key to move … Continue reading pat@example.com Google Usability Tweak
Wordtracker keywords (Photo credit: Matthew Burpee) Update: Eight years later, yet another SEO data vendor failed me, so I did a more recent piece on that reporting vendor search. Here's the original 2010 piece on the frustrating state of keyword research way back when. I recently reluctantly renewed my subscription to Wordtracker, a keyword research … Continue reading Wordtracker KEI Fail, Wordtracker Alternatives & SEO News
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