SEO update

As mentioned in a previous post I entered our company’s SEO contest at mattbrandenburg.com. I created a very simple page and on Friday afternoon I was number one in Google and beginning to make inroads on the other engines. This morning however I was nowhere to be found. My website …

The Road to Enlightenment

There is a great website called the CSS Zen garden. Essentially it is designed to illustrate the possibilities of using CSS based design. Designers and developers are invited to download the html and CSS files, and then create a new look using just those files and changing the CSS. Here …

Creative learning and learning the hard way

One of the biggest problems facing companies today is keeping their employees trained and interested in learning.For internet companies it is even harder.In an industry that changes so rapidly you have to really be on your toes.What worked six months ago doesn’t work today!The Search Community of Practice at Critical …

What I learned at Toronto SES 2007

  The landscape of search is changing again.As Google universal and similar algorithms are being utilized text based information will hold less and less sway. Podcasts and videos will come into play, as will personalization. (think like Amazon personalization)   The techniques that worked in the past do not work …