Thu 8 Mar 2007
Hmmmm, Here’s cool trick to impress the Geezers with down at the local Pub!
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Wed 22 Nov 2006
Ok so there’s these people going around, giving out cash:
Why? (more…)
Sat 30 Sep 2006
More data pulled from the latest comScore Search Engine Report shows everyone the secret I learned when I worked at Verizon superpages.com. More people are using local search instead of a telephone book to find goods and services.
63 percent of U.S. Internet users (or approximately 109 million people) performed a local search online in July, a 43-percent increase versus July of 2005.
After all, compare the amount of info you would get if you looked up autos for sale on local.google.com or in the phone book. The phone book would just show some ads with general statements like “We sell the best cars!” local.google.com will provide links to local car dealers web sites where some one can view a map and directions to thier location(s), and perhaps even see some or all of the autos that are actually in stock!
What were they looking for?
59% were searching for a restaurant or other entainment venues
52% were searching for business phone numbers
What did they do after the search?
47% visited a local merchant after searching
41% made contact offline
37% made contact online
How many searches were made in last month alone in America?
More than 849 million local searches conducted in the US in July.
that’s why my Search Engine Optimization almost always starts with those tedious manual submissions to all the local search engines that other Search engine marketers won’t do!
Mon 11 Sep 2006
CSS is a technology frequently used in modern web site design. It’s an acronym which stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Sheets because it’s documents that hold instructions, like a sheet of paper. It’s Style because it holds instructions on the visual appearance of just about everything in a web site, except the browser itself. It’s Cascading because it’s scope is nested - which means, well we’ll get to that later.
there are two main advantages of using CSS:
- Because it gives you far more control over the appearance of a web pages elements than HTML.
- Because you can set a “style” and use it on through out the site, just by mentioning it’s name. This means if you want to change the font color for every piece of text that has a style named “RegText” (we use “classes” to name styles), attached to it, you can just change the parameters in the style sheet and every where in the web site(s) that use that style sheet will be automaticlly updated. Sure beats going onto every page and changing every element that needs it.
