Recently, I started research on SEO techniques. I was already late.
I had thought that SEO tasks would mainly be tweeks to an existing site, little optimizations. I’ve learned that SEO is actually, mainly, a pre-design and in-design task.
The best site I think I’ve run into is SEOMoz, which has great articles and free tools like a Rank Checker and a Crawl Test. Chalk full of Beginner’s Checklists for quick application and ‘newest trends’ articles.
Not only can you see DOM elements, CSS, scripts and HTML, you can turn elements on and off and even change their values. There’s no better way to see how all the tiny little line items add up to what you see on the page. And I would wager that until you understand how all the granular items affect each other inside the living document, you don’t really get it.
It’s like K’s brother Lance says: “If you can’t BAR, you can’t play guiTAR.”
Which reminds me, Lance has a crazy way with paper planes. Off topic? How can paper planes be off topic??
Only weeks after the fallout of Microsoft’s Yahoo takeover, Plan B begins to materialize: do SOMETHING to improve MS’s search tools. Anything.
They may actually be onto something with the recent purchase of Powerset.
I would say that the main problem with most computer programs is their incomplete modeling of the problem. Programs must model a problem using ONLY logic, and most problems we as humans want to solve are not binary problems with a simple yes or no answer. If they were, we probably wouldn’t bother to write a program!
So, the day when I can ask a browser: “Where should I get coffee?”, and it answers like a friend showing me around a new neighborhood: “Top Pot if you’re looking for drip, Uncle Elizabeth’s if your laptop battery dies, and, if all things are pretty equal, just go to Victrola- great Natalie Oswald paintings up right now!”, that’ll be the day.
My Dad, who worked on the space shuttle, but was deeply suspicious of consumer electronics, disliked even our 13″ Zenith TV (that you had to “warm up” for hours to get any color on Kentucky Derby day). He said he’d buy a new TV only when they came out with 1000 lines of resolution TV’s. Well, at 1080P, about 23 years later, he’d be forced to buy now. I hope Microsoft (or Google, or Jakob Nielsen, or whoever…) can pull through for me in a few decades.
I think I knew this already, but now there’s a study! I’m often frustrated by how long it takes my body to do the things my mind has already long ago gotten done. But there’s a whole deeper layer: long before your mind knows it’s made a decision, your consciousness has already made it. And moved on. No wonder there’s a pack of pink unicorns in everyone’s stream of consciousness– this whole physical world is a big slooooow boring ordeal that’s soooo 10 seconds ago.
And here I’d been thinking I’d been set free by keyboard shortcuts! Bookmarklets are shortcuts you can add to your browser toolbar. Not just your ‘ole link to Google anymore, either. Perfect for folks like me who will do just about anything to avoid repetition. From Squarefree:
