http://www.cshel.com Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:27:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Spine-health, a leader in online back pain and spine surgery information, announces the launch of their newly redesigned Web site. The new look marks a second wave in a series of usability enhancements that include additional functionality, improved speed, and enhanced navigation. The initial phase of usability enhancements ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/writing-samples/press-releases/2008/05/spine-health-launches-new-design-usability-enhancements/ Special guests Rhea Drysdale and Steve Bristol from LessEverything.com join me, Brian and Ne0 on SEO 101 to discuss the benefits and advantages of running your very own social network... Completely coincidentally, they're also pimping LessEverything's recently released open source social network platform, Lovd. Download SEO 101: Open Source Social. Originally aired ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/social-networking/2008/03/luvd-social-networking-platform-open-source/ Okay, this is a really coarse summary of this article because I'm not terribly familiar with the scandal in question... here goes: There's apparently some big financial scandal going on in Paris. According to a story that appeared today on FT.com, the police searched a broker's desk, confiscated his computer and ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/social-networking/2008/03/friends-on-facebook-equals-guilt-by-association/ Originally appeared on Tometa Software and posted on October 2, 2007. Just adding it to the blog to archive in the Writing Samples section. Also, I think there are still some of the free licenses available for the software for bloggers who want to review it. Info and link at ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/writing-samples/2007/10/top-5-ways-your-life-will-end-if-you-lose-your-laptop/ We've had some internal debates (friendly, of course!) about which topics would be of the most interest to the SEO 101 listeners. Because our arguments were largely based on anecdotal evidence, we decided that it would be best to solicit feedback directly from the listening audience. So... if you all ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/2007/10/seo-101-needs-your-feedback/ I'm not even entirely sure what to say here. I mean, can you honestly say your business provides search engine optimization services when you sell websites that are built entirely in Flash and, literally, the ONLY two links on the WHOLE site that a spider can see go to ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/2007/09/holy-mackerel-you-call-that-seo/ I'm going to pick on a business here... not because I hate them (because I don't) but just because I stumbled across this result while I was trying to find the website for the place I wanted to get a pedicure at during my lunch hour (and a half). Here's what ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/2007/09/double-check-your-web-developersseos-work/ While it's a little late, the Beginning SEO Podcast did not want to be left out of the spate of "SMX Wrap-Ups" so... here it is. Since Brian and NeO didn't go, it's pretty much them asking me questions about the conference and of course I blather on and on ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/2007/06/smx-wrap-up-on-beginning-seo-podcast/ Brian Mark, Dave Brown and I discuss best practices for building the structure of your website. We cover making it search bot friendly, making it user friendly, and making sure you can find stuff when you need to edit things. As it's the "Beginning SEO Podcast", it sticks to fundamentals ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/2007/06/search-friendly-site-architecture-on-beginning-seo-podcast/ The Beginning SEO Podcast with Brian Mark and David Brown (that was just posted today) talks about using RSS and XML to incorporate news, headlines and blog headlines into your websites to keep the content fresh, the visitors returning and the bots indexing on a regular basis. The podcast is ... http://www.cshel.com/seosem/copywriting-and-content/2007/05/using-rss-to-create-dynamic-content-for-seo/