Changing Jobs is Always Awkward

July 28th, 2008

For the first time in almost exactly six years I will be starting a new job. On August 11th I will be begin my employment with Nicolas Creative in Shrewsbury, NJ. My position will be unchanged as a PHP developer.
Back in the days when I worked in retail it seemed like every year, or [...]

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Site Traffic Is Not A Ranking Factor For Search Engines

July 28th, 2008

One of the many myths concerning how pages are ranked is that the volume of traffic a website receives affects the rankings of the pages within that website. On the surface this seems logical as a website that gets a lot of traffic probably has good content. Unfortunately once given a deeper look this starts [...]

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Use PHP to Force the www on URLs

July 24th, 2008

There are many good reasons to be consistent when using the ‘www’ in URLs. This includes good usability (it may confuse some people when they see it there some of the time but not others) and SEO (some search engines may consider the the same page with the ‘www’ different then the one without it).
The [...]

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Meta Tags Are Dead. Get Over It.

July 21st, 2008

 
For the purpose of this blog post, when I say “Meta tags” I am referring to the Meta description and keyword tags only.
 
Back in the day, when Alta Vista was king of search and Yahoo was primarily a web directory, meta tags were powerful tools for helping a web page rank well in Alta Vista [...]

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How Do You Twitter?

July 17th, 2008

Although I am not a huge participant of the social media scene, I find myself actually sustaining use of Twitter. For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, according to Wikipedia:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters [...]

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