With all of the recent talk about “linkbaiting” and this mention of several excellent ways to bring traffic and natural links to your site, I’m reminded of the old days (OK, it wasn’t that long ago) way back in 2000 when my first online business, Surreal Web Design, was in it’s prime.
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Earlier this month Jim Boykin and the We Build Pages team announced that their first-ever Link Ninjas training classes (January 18-19th) would actually be their last.
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I meant to write about this earlier, but I actually wanted to make sure I could include all of the news in one large post.

Continuing where things left off with my earlier post about Google’s Bigdaddy datacenter, Matt Cutts recently provided a plethora of great information in a very short period of time. The most important update was that in order to check out results from the new datacenter, you’ll need to hit this address instead of the address he previously posted. Many other hot topics were covered, including:
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When speaking with clients, I often find myself using the phrase “It’s no different online” to explain the similarities and common characteristics of traditional brick-and-mortar businesses with online business. The majority of my current clients have never developed a website nor run a successful online business (usually their first online endeavor) so it’s important for me to communicate online marketing information in ways that can be easily digested.
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Matt Cutts posted some information today about Google’s next incremental update and it’s availability on Google’s “Big Daddy” datacenter (I didn’t make that up).

He’s not quite ready for feedback from results just yet, so give it a few weeks so the engineers can do their magic before posting on Matt’s blog.
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The constant translation of internet marketing concepts into terms that clients easily understand can be challenging at times, especially with clients that have limited knowledge of computers, the internet, and search engines. While there are many SEO books and guides out there of varying importance and skill levels, I have finally found one I can recommend with confidence to clients and friends.
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SES Chicago 2005 began yesterday and although I couldn’t attend this year (I had a free pass from a friend with a booth in the expo hall, but I found out too late), I’m keeping up with everything that’s going on via Barry Schwartz’ Search Engine Roundtable Blog. Barry and the other site authors do an awesome job of covering the key information from each session while leaving out anything irrelevant, and the additional comments they include keep it interesting.
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While employed for over 4 years on different contract positions as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, I became very familiar with a variety of programming languages (not HTML or CSS which are markup languages, I’m referring to ASP, PHP, JAVA, XML, and a few others). Some of these languages I actually became so involved with that I ended a few projects as a novice programmer in whatever language I needed to focus on as required.
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