Blogs: How They Can Make You Money

Weblogs, otherwise known as Blogs are an effective method of promoting your talent, building brand and building online brand. Blogs are everywhere; countless companies and individuals have a blog that they attend to on a regular basis. My question is do users know the...

SES San Jose, an SEO Recap

Search marketing conferences are serious fun, especially when the conference is held in the Silicone Valley. Being at SES San Jose is hard work comprised of a week in an advanced search marketing university that offers field trips to various techno-Disneylands...

A Look Back at Predictions for 2005

In early January last year, I went out on a Yule Tree limb to make a list of wild predictions for 2005. The first Friday in December, two weeks before the beginning of the Yuletide holiday season, is a good time to look back at those predictions to see how accurate...

New World Wide Web Emerging – Meet the New Network

An interesting phenomenon is coming to a monitor near you, perhaps the one you are looking at right now. The days of convergence are upon us. The trend towards the merging of media via the Internet is already causing significant cultural shifts as witnessed by the...

Google’s Jagger Update Completing Cycles

Ever since Google introduced its latest algorithm update in September, a fair amount of column space has been dedicated to telling webmasters and small business owners to wait until the update is complete. In so much as it can be said that the Jagger Update will ever...

Arachnophilia, the Joy of Playing with Spiders

Spiders make great geek pets, at least virtual ones do. Here at StepForth, we keep a couple spiders on our system to test sites, pages and documents in the hopes of learning more about the behaviours of common search engine spiders such as GoogleBot, Yahoo’s Slurp and...