Archive for February, 2009

Finding Negative Keywords

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Here’s a tip for finding negative keywords for PPC campaigns as well as websites to link to for linking campaigns. Set up Google Alerts for those keywords your advertising on. Depending on the popularity of your keyword(s) you should start receiving emails from Google pretty quickly with links to various articles, blogs and websites. It’s [...]

Article Marketing Lives On – Part II: It’s All About The Title Stupid

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

A couple weeks ago we wrote a post on article marketing, providing a free directory list of the top 5 article marketing directories. The list isn’t long, because the fact of the matter is, there are lots of article directories out there that aren’t worth a dime. But the fact of the matter is, those [...]

Firebug can slow Firefox to a crawl

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Firebug is a great tool for analyzing and debugging HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more. I love it. But I also hate it. As of Version 1.3.2, it stores information about almost every resource downloaded as you browse the web, regardless of whether or not you have Firebug turned on. For someone like me that averages [...]

800×600 is dead, almost

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

We were just revisiting an old client’s site, and we were struck by how narrow the design looks, having been designed to fit on 800 pixel screen widths. (My MacBook Pro’s “squat” 1440×900 screen definitely exaggerates this effect.)
It used to be considered a best practice to design websites for 800×600 pixel displays. This width is [...]