Last month Compete.com launched with a new look. Murdok had a few words with Compete’s Director of Market Development, Aaron Prebluda who talked a little bit about the new design. Have you used Compete since its relaunch? What do you think about it? Share your thoughts.
SEO and Understanding Your Brand
I always recommend that folks optimizing their web sites take great care to not confuse the name of their company with what the searchers are actually trying to find, which is frequently the brand. Unless you are someone like Coca-Cola or your name is the same as your product and brand, you should generally leave your company name out of the title tag of your pages. If you absolutely must have it there, put it at the end.
Understanding the Social Media Landscape
My first session of BlogWorld was Chris Heuer and Marshall Kirkpatrick presenting "Understanding the Social Media Landscape."
Social media Web sites are places where people, businesses and organizations can connect with each other. Chris described some of the tenets of social media:
Understanding “Allinanchor” to Improve Google Ranking
Google has several "search operators" that provide important insights into improving search engine rankings. One of the most important commands is "Allinanchor" as it heavily influences Google’s ranking algorithm – by providing relevance to inbound links.
Understanding the Basics of ITIL
In the world of IT management, ITIL is the buzzword being heard around the globe. So what is ITIL and how does it affect your organization? Let’s take a closer look!
Understanding Color In Your Designs
Most people can grasp the basics of getting the right colors in the right places and ensuring that you are following simple principles when you are designing an item for print or designing a web site.
Understanding Microsummaries
One of the new features of Firefox 2.0 is support for Microsummaries. These are simply another kind of live bookmark, and in that sense are similar in context to RSS live bookmarks, but are simpler to implement and contain less information.
Understanding Microformats
You may have heard mention of “microformats” recently. If you investigated, you probably ran across mumbling like this from http://microformats.org/about/:
Mis-Understanding Functionalism
I recently came across Matt Jabobs’ blog on Functionalism and I figured it was worth taking time out from my ongoing series to comment on it since I think it shows (unintentionally) just how much better Functional Analysis is than the schemes that preceeded it.
Understanding Ajax: Review
I enjoyed this much more than the other other Ajax book I reviewed recently.