UPDATE: So I'm a bit out of touch on this one, but McAfee actually backed away from what they were doing, in no small measure it seems from the stink she rasied. :-) Read the full story at Cresta's blog. Oh, and I've restored the image to … [Continue reading]
SEO Trick – Sub-Domains vs. Directories
August 3, 2008 by 2 Comments
Two SEO questions I get asked a lot: How important is the URL to ranking and Which is better, sub-domains or directories In general, both have only minor impact on ranking (I think they are important to click-through) but I just saw … [Continue reading]
HackerSafe? Not Now. Now It’s HackerSOURCE. Yikes!!
August 3, 2008 by 3 Comments
McAfee has done something with the HackerSafe logo that I think totally crosses the line. Thanks to Cresta's Blog post and subsequent Tweet for pointing this out to me. Today, I am pulling the seal off of my sites; disabling all the domains … [Continue reading]
Married 24 Years
July 15, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Who knew such a thing was even possible -- let alone enjoyable! Wife and son at Benihana following the usual engorging this entails. Missing is our daughter. In two dozen years you end up with a lot of pictures like this. … [Continue reading]
Portals vs. Mashups
July 13, 2008 by 1 Comment
A critical Information Technology objective for most mid and larger companies these days is the integration of disparate business systems. The reasons are several, but Business Intelligence (BI) is a decent overarching label for all of it. The … [Continue reading]
Is the World Really Getting Smaller?
July 13, 2008 by Leave a Comment
A pretty widely regarded "truth" is that modern communications technology has reduced, and continues to reduce, the size of the world. The "Small World Experiment" , incorrectly attributed as the source of "six … [Continue reading]
Welcome to My [stomper] World
May 23, 2008 by Leave a Comment
As many of you know, in addition to running Windrose Software and continuing my search engine research, I'm also a faculty member at StomperNet. For about the last year or so, we have been closed to new students, but today that changes. At 3 PM … [Continue reading]
Jerry West Close to Historic Sponsorship Deal
May 4, 2008 by Leave a Comment
On this day in 1978, the very first unsolicited commercial email, or UCE, was sent by Digital Equipment Corporation to hundreds (that was so the old days) of users of the Arpanet, the forerunner to the Internet. In that one moment was born a whole … [Continue reading]
Static vs. Dynamic URLs
November 14, 2006 by Leave a Comment
The terms 'static' and 'dynamic' do not correctly represent any real technological differences in how pages are delivered. The real issue is 'clean URL' or 'messy URL' -- query strings is a common example. The engines are far better today at … [Continue reading]
“SEO Secrets”
November 10, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Recently I was told that "there are no SEO Secrets" and to claim such a thing was deceitful. Hmmm, maybe. So I looked up the word "secret" — I already know what SEO means :-). Secret: done, made, or conducted … [Continue reading]