Posted by Alicia Magda on Sep 30, 2008
The Solid Cactus SEO Team has come quite a long way since I first started at Solid Cactus as an intern two years ago. The SEO Team grew from being a team of just one (me!) to its current size of five very talented SEO Specialists over the last few months. SEO as an industry [...]
Posted by Mandy Boyle on Sep 30, 2008
One of the secrets of being a good writer is to read often. Another is to read acclaimed copywriter Luke Sullivan’s Hey Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising. Part expose of the advertising industry and part copywriting how-to, this book has made quite a splash in the advertising industry with some agencies, [...]
Posted by Nick Matthews on Sep 29, 2008
In my travels in this new and interesting world of SEO, I find my sense of humor to be a great asset. I always said, “if you can’t laugh at it, then it’s probably a product of witchcraft and it should be expelled from the village!”
In any event, I found a bunch of cartoons from [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Sep 26, 2008
In the SEOmoz.org article, “The SEO Failings of Major UK Highstreet Retailers”, article author Tom_C examines the (lack of) SEO strategy of major UK brands. We may be miles away over here in the States, but learning from the mistakes of big UK brands is valuable to any online store out there.
The article goes on [...]
Posted by Shannon Mullery on Sep 25, 2008
While some e-commerce sites are built around their offerings of “random stuff”, they are marketed as such, and customers expect a miscellany of products from page to page. Jumping from novelty belt buckles to wind-up sparking nuns is expected and fun while browsing one of these sites. The same cannot be said for sites that [...]
Posted by Mandy Boyle on Sep 24, 2008
Being a good communicator is key for any kind of success. Even if you’re not a writer, it’s important for you to have the ability to convey your thoughts in a clear, correct, and concise manner. Here’s a quick review on three of the most commonly made grammatical errors and ways to fix them, so [...]
Posted by Shannon Mullery on Sep 23, 2008
Is my blue your blue? What does pretty ‘mean’? If the world is a house, perception is the foundation. We can ask until infinity what others actually see, think and feel, but we have no real proof that my blue is your blue, that pretty is a universal, or any of a million trillion other [...]
Posted by Mandy Boyle on Sep 22, 2008
Today, you can put just about anything on a t-shirt.
CafePress.com, the beloved online retailer of humourous tees, now offers a collection of clothing designed for those who frequently surf the blogosphere and peruse PageRank. Yes, we’re talking about SEOs.
Available in several different sizes, colors, and sleeve lengths, these t-shirts are a great way for an [...]
Posted by Nick Matthews on Sep 19, 2008
Chances are if you’re selling a product, there are people out there looking for it. The concept of selling a product is to provide a solution to a problem, whether that problem is building a deck, decorating a house, or just providing entertainment to a bored individual. Yahoo! Answers provides a good place for you, [...]
Posted by Jeff Stolarcyk on Sep 18, 2008
“Blogging” is a really buzzworthy term right now, just like “iPhone” or “Wii.” Another thing blogging has in common with those in-demand gadgets is that a lot of the masses clamoring for them don’t have a realistic set of expectations regarding what they’ll do with the advice or how they’ll do it.
There are a lot [...]