This session was titled Big Content Strategies. I thought that meant if you have millions of pages how do you get them to rank well. Apparently what they meant was Awesome Content Strategies. Which was cool. Aaron Friedman Let the creativity flow. Have brainstorming sessions. Beer helps. I think Google took keyword data away because people […]
Ari Nahmani and Tom Harari shared their link building ideas at SMX Israel. Ari Nahmani New age link building. 15 minutes, 100 slides. So this will be quick. [Slides are here] I’m usually not nervous, but this time my wife is here. The web is no longer the great equalizer. Once upon a time a decent […]
Barry Schwartz gave the SMX Israel keynote about 2013 search highlights, and what’s coming in 2014. Biggest changes of 2013 Hummingbird flew under the radar at first. Nobody even knew about it until Google announced it a few weeks later, but it’s changing the search landscape. Google is now much better at divining the intent […]
And we’re back from a great lunch for the best session of the day, about Siri, Google Now and Google Glass with the great Ari Nahmani, Barry Schwartz, and myself. Actually as I write this we haven’t even gone to lunch yet. Since I’m on this panel I had to pre-blog it, but I think […]
In the 90s businesses had to get their computer networks to know all of the information that was in their paper documents. They even had to teach those computers how to talk to other companies’ computers. It was a lot of work, and there were a lot of missteps, but the information revolution really did […]
I create a lot of WordPress websites for other people. I create everything on my test server and when the customer is happy with it, I move it to their hosting account. I like to work this way because that means I can do what I need to without worrying about people seeing a site […]
I have a friend that set up a BuddyPress, WordPress website called MavenMall.com. She set it up years ago. It’s a great site for women who want to buy modest clothing. Everything was going great until one day, when her hosting company, HostGator, told her she was taking too many resources for her hosting package and shut […]
I had the pleasure of listening to Dan Ariely at UXI Live conference in Israel. He’s a real rock star in our house. My eldest daughter decided that she wanted to learn behavioral economics after reading his book, Predictably Irrational. She’s studying economics and psychology at Hebrew University. Having the opportunity to hear him in […]
WordPress is an amazing platform. Over the years I’ve made a bunch of my own themes for clients and for my own blogs and websites. With tools like Thesis and Headway, it can be fairly easy to customize your website to do what you want. Both Headway and Thesis are great platforms to start with. […]
Lot of great lessons from KahenaCon. Here were the best: Best lines Aaron Friedman: I have these companies paying me a ton of money and I say can you change this title tag and they’re like No. SEO is a support role for everyone else. That’s how you need to look at it. Whatever you […]