Carl’s SEO & Web Design Blog

Google, envisioned and originally developed by Page & Brin, first crawled the web in March of 1996. There were several pioneer concepts involved in making Google what it is today, but let’s look at the first two.
The Crawler
University professors for years have learned to publish or perish, and the papers they write are generally authored […]

Both Vonage and Qwest have serious support problems. They can destroy your business. Enjoy the fun and blog these problems to the A-List blogs. Let’s get a swarm going.
Here are the page counts in Google today for these problems. Search on:
vonage +support +blog […]

Having trouble getting a good rank in the search engines? Having trouble getting on that first page? We just helped a client get to the #2 position in Yahoo with 51,000 compting sites on their search phrase. Let us help you get up there?
Here are some tips to get that position in Google:

Google has a […]

Tip for the Wise: Don’t go Vonage. Their customer support is the worse of any company of which I have used products or service. They, with Qwest, have mangled our business telephone number to such a point that I can’t use it - the number is in limbo somewhere and has been in limbo land […]

When you are scanning the results of a search engine query, how do most people scan them? This is an important questions, as it determines where you should place your ad in the results for maximum exposure.
For the first time, an independent organization has studed this question using results from Google with a group […]

Look at a paragraph Frank Lloyd Wright wrote in 1908 (reprinted in Frank Lloyd Wright, Collected Writings, Vo. 1):
“A building should contain as few rooms as will meet the condition which give it rise and under which we live, and which the architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then […]

Blogs are continuing to grow very, very fast.
Technorati now tracks over 13 million blogs, and this is increasing at 30,000 blogs a day. Blogs are having more and more cultural influence.
Good search engine positioning will continue to increase in cost.
Competition for good positions in the search engines is increasing, and more people are willing […]

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Search Engine Positioning and Web Site Promotion is now Version 7.0. This week we got a site with over 45,000 competing web pages for their keyword phrase to the #2 slot on the first page. Not bad. Version 7.0 tells how we […]

Know something? If I had searched the blogosphere before I installed Vonage I wouldn’t have jumped. Try searching Google on Vonage +support +blog. Wow - 92,000 hits. Are they reading this?
Vonage’s Web and phone support is a jumbled mess by ZDNet’s Russell Shaw — Vonage’s Web site, as well as its phone-based tech support […]