Carl’s SEO & Web Design Blog

Here are Evan William’s ten rules for web startups:

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp
Great stuff.

What are the top ten mistakes people make in designing web sites? You know, they really haven’t changed that much the last few years.
Check out the list from Jakob Neilsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html, a leading web site designer today.

To have a successful web site, you need to constantly monitor the statistics relative to the site. You need to know the number of hits various pages in your site are getting. You need to know how many sessions you are seeing each day, the number of visitors, the number of repeat visitors, how long […]

Google has gotten city permission in Mountain View, CA to start installing their WiFi network. This is their first step in making the San Francisco area wireless.

Google’s been testing a service to deliver free classified ads. It’s still in beta and for awhile was in and out of availability. Maybe it’s there for good now. You can try it at:
http://base.google.com
Post your items there that you wish to sell. It doesn’t cost anything. Try it!
The database is updated immediately - unlike the […]

Those talking heads, are getting better all the time. Now they are animated with lip and facial feature synchronization. We’ve put one on our welcome page and perhaps will add a few more. This makes the site sticky; that is, you stay there longer. The site is also more interactive, warmer, and I’m seeing […]

Our Search Engine Position and Web Site Promotion eBook is now released as Version 8 and is available for downloading. This is a fairly major revision with 214 pages of in-depth material for anyone serious about positioning their site in the engines. More than a simple reference book, the text takes you in a […]

From a recent speech by Jeff Jarvis - an insider to big media. Jeff worked for the New York Daily News, TV Guide, and People. He founded Entertainment Weekly:
The days of “we own the media” are over. We owned the free press for a century, now the people own it.
We think […]

If you have a web site out there, you may have found that its ranking dances around the last few weeks and even the PagrRank dances on you. This is one of those famous Googe Dances. Maybe we should give them names like we do hurricanes and even a category rating. This dance one is […]