Gotta Love Tanisha
If you are a frequent visitor, you may have noticed the new homepage copy.
The new copy is all thanks to Tanisha Robinson (check out her rant on english here). T, as we call her, is a true mix between scientist and artist. She has a masters in linguistics and has been doing empirical testing (thanks to Adwords) for long enough to know what makes people tick.
I can’t recommend her enough. Really.
So if you or anyone you know is looking for copy that grabs your readers attention, check out T’s website and give her a holler.
-Brad
PS: If you are local to Columbus, look for T and Myself at Wordcamp Columbus.
There is a pretty prevalent problem in Search Engine Optimization that deserves some serious attention. And it’s causing us all to think that our own sites are ranking a LOT higher then they actually are.
It’s called Google Personalized Search. Here’s a bit about it:
Google has released a new version of Google Personalized Search, this time in a format intended to constantly monitor what people select from search results and shape future queries based on their choices.
The new service is linked to the My Search History feature that Google unveiled last April (see our Google My Search History Personalizes the Web for more on the feature). Google Personalized Search uses My Search History data to refine your results based on your searching habits.
-From SearchEngineWatch
There is nothing wrong with Google Personalized Search by itself. The problem arises when we check out rankings for different keywords.
I’ll show you an example of what can happen…
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I’ve never promised that my design sense is all that great. I’ll leave that to the specialists who could run circles around me in Photoshop, Fireworks, or Illustrator.
But, if you come by this blog much, then you likely noticed that a redesign silently took place.
It was time: I’d heard the last design was everything from “offensive”, “childish”, and downright terrible. The sad thing is- I agreed.
So I finally made time to redo everything. Inspiration awards go out to Dive Into Mark, colourlovers, and the entire redesign was powered by Gala Apples and Chipotle.
Until today, I wasn’t sure if the design was doing-it-for-me. That was, until about 30 minutes ago. [click to continue…]
Riding back and forth to work from Victorian Village to German Village and straight through the Short North District of Columbus, Ohio today was pretty interesting.
Not only is the night air starting to feel a bit more spring-ish, but I noticed that there was a certain Buzz about downtown Columbus. And, oh yeah, there were lots of very big and strong people strolling around with huge bags.
It turns out that it’s the Arnold Classic time again. And it might be the perfect storm of events for Columbus with an Arnold Classic, First Friday, and Cage Fighting match all in one night. Geez.
The only thing that would make this more nuts is a Michigan vs. Ohio state game. Thank God for the off-season.
-Brad
About a year and a half ago, I was in Columbus visiting family. I was living in New York at the time, and was tired of the East Coast mentality.
Stopping into Cafe Apropo in Victorian Village was the turning point for me. It helped me decide to come back to Columbus… even if it did take a year.
And it’s funny. When I was here 1 1/2 years ago, I imagined myself doing web design and seo… living “downtown” (at that time, I didn’t even know enough about Columbus to distinguish Vic. Village from the Short North, Italian Village, or Grandview… it was all “downtown”… lol) and working at a bar to meet people. My daydream also included biking around town and catching up with old friends. [click to continue…]
After hearing about Columbus Underground for weeks on end, I decided to check it out.
It’s a really great website that covers all sorts of Columbus news and events and all of that. It also has a very active community of commenters. So I joined.
You can see my profile here.
If you live in Columbus, consider joining and adding your insights!
It happens to all of us. No matter how much you try to keep up with your website, some links can get old and die. Maybe that cabbage recipe you love and linked to last christmas, or maybe it was the link to your friends website about being a single mom (actually, this link is very much alive… and it’s good enough to interest anyone, even if you aren’t a single mom), sometimes links go bad.
And that’s why this little tool can be super helpful:
Dead Links Checker
This website will spider through all of your pages and let you know if any of those links are broken. I also use it to see how many pages are on my site from time to time… right now there are a shade over 250 pages…
Best of all, it’s simple and free.
Use this tool to check and see if the domain name for your business, organization, or just the domain name you’ve always thought would be cool or memorable is available.
Check For Available Domains:
My name is Brad and I love to help people drive traffic and make great blogs. Thanks for coming by. If you like what you see here then check me out on 
