A terrible tragedy is unfolding as I write this. Notre-Dame de Paris is on fire and at the time of this writing, the iconic spire has just collapsed in the blaze. I haven’t heard any news regarding loss of life, so hopefully everyone is safe….
A year ago, a conservative family member asked me who I voted for, and I’m 95% certain they asked even though they knew the answer. After I replied they said, “I thought you’d be for Trump, being a business owner and all.” Ethics and potential constitutional crises…
On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of Mario Costeja Gonzalez (pictured above) of Spain in his suit against Google, aimed at getting them to remove pages related to Gonzalez’s 1998 debt troubles that he argued are now irrelevant. Europe’s top court ultimately…
If you have accessed Google Analytics to view your website’s metrics at all in the past day, you may have noticed something a little odd. Upon logging in and seeing your default Audience Overview report, where you once saw “Visits” and “Visitors,” you now see…
If your email address is included in a single mailto: link or on the receiving end of any contact form, there’s a high probability that you’ve received an email like the one shown below. Everyone receives them. I receive them and my site openly says…
In this case, we can pinpoint the exact video that did it, too. WARNING: If you can stomach this until the 3:24 mark, things are about to get much worse. Wow.
Oh, Google. I know you mean well, but sometimes you just try too hard and come across like a real Chatty Cathy. Even worse, a Chatty Cathy Know-It-All. I’ve got your back, though. The semantic web is to blame. In your quest to gain a…
There’s been some excitement in the SEO world in the past few days. It doesn’t take much to get people in our industry all riled up, but this one is spurring some real anger toward Google for assuming the roles of Relevance Police, Judge and…
Let this be a cautionary tale. A tale about what happens when you don’t follow your own advice. In the past six months, I have lost over 40% of my traffic. It was remarkably easy; much easier than increasing my traffic by 40%. I really…
“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” – Grace Hopper These words have given innovators, entrepreneurs and visionaries across the world the justification (not that they needed it) to take bold risks and test new waters with relative uncertainty. Originating from…