Blog Entries tagged 'capability'

SEO Puts $31,752 Additional Profit in Man's Pocket

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

At least. Which is a pretty good piece of pocket money. I suspect even Warren Buffet would slow down to pick that up.

I attribute this to SEO because even thought it was a change in business process coupled with good SEO that made it happen it could not have happened without SEO.

Fair warning to people looking for "advanced" techniques - they ain't here. [...]

More Almost Good Cari.Net Customer Service

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Sigh. Once again they almost avoid being the rotten apple of my eye. My not so snarky comments in red.

This evening Cari.net will conduct an emergency maintenance window to provide additional protection and redundancy for the C2 Data Center. [Planned emergency maintence window. Nice!] Every attempt is made to provide advance notice of these windows; however, in the inter [...]

DIgg Friend Finder has high ROI

admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:00:00 +0100

We've talked a lot about SEO Tools and I have been fairly critical of their ROI. You'll notice that most of them are not in the sweet part of the grid (hint: upper right is better!):

You can see that we liked iMacro (which is why we coded the Ping utility in that on the client side.

What Makes ROI?

I think you have to consider the value of what you [...]

Free SEO Tool to Ping Lost Backlinks

admin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:00:00 +0100

We all know that some backlinks never make it to technorati and therefore are less likely to be "discovered" by google. And all your backlinks are important for SERPS, high quality technorati traffic, etc, etc. So we built a tool that will automatically generate pings to technorati and pingomatic for all your backlinks. And it is free. (Well, it's ad-supported, but that is close enough to the same thing.)

How and Why

If you'd like an arch [...]

Architecting SEO Apps for Digg

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Digg is a sweet target for automated SEO tools because they have a powerful API, plenty of horsepower, and you can get a lot of ROI from even a little advantage. But you have to build it right or you’ll consume all your own bandwidth/CPU and produce a tool that is down a lot. And no matter how free something is, it’s not very useful if it doesn’t stay up and produce results.

The Obvious Way

Well, it’s u [...]

iMacro SEO Automation Framework

admin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

In order to build an efficient SEO automation framework you must carefully seperate value added manual tasks from reptitious automatable steps. For example, writing content on Social Networking is value added, but posting it to 23 different pligg sites and bookmarking the article at 50+ sites is not.

Manual or Automation

But determining which categories it goes into on the 23 pligg sites is an appropriate manual task. So it's not like you are just going to offshore someone [...]

Choosing a Web Application Manipulation Tool

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The bad news is that if you choose the wrong tool you'll have a heck of a time unwinding the mistake. The good news
is that these products are different enough and the choice is pretty clear.

Real World Web Application Manipulation Tool

We said earlier that a
web
application manipulation tool is one that drives a web site based on a link back to your backend application
containing workflow and data driven information. In a real world setting this tool must have the following
c [...]

I'm Just Saying - Complexity is Complex

admin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We're trying to debug something that seems relatively simple, but we've got the following bits and pieces in the mix:

JoomlaComponents galore for JoomlaPHPAjaxMySQLOracleTwo servers (same hosting center)
Development on WindowsDeployment on LinuxIE and MozillaDisplay widgets from DXHTML (awesome stuff!)

And some other stuff, I'm sure. Swear to gosh, simple problems can take forever to find.

On the upside, we find that complex problems are easily tackl [...]

Architecting SEO Tools For Success

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I'd like to get a bit geeky on everyone - not the chicken biting geeky, but the other kind - and talk about architecting SEO tools for successful deployment. I'm going to skip by discussions of PC/Mac UI, Ajax/Ruby, vi/EMACS, etc, etc. I want to talk about basic system architecture.

Service with a Smile

The most commonly deployed form of system architecture for SEO tools is server-centric.