Comments for Tales From the Digital Side http://talesfromthedigitalside.com Employer Branding in the Digital World Sun, 16 May 2010 03:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on More “New Facebook” Disasters – Six Things I Really Hate by Alice http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2009/03/14/more-new-facebook-disasters-six-things-i-really-hate/#comment-1719 Sun, 16 May 2010 03:58:50 +0000 http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/?p=121#comment-1719 Seriously!!! Tonight I went to add to my profile, and it popped up this thing to “link” things to my account. I meant to exit out of it, but it linked things to my account and eradicated all of my personal things that I added, such as my activities, interests, and more. Plus, there is no way to contact Facebook to get my profile back the way it was. I am soo mad!!!

]]> Comment on MentosIntern.com – Millenial-focused Advertising by sandrar http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2007/08/07/mentosinterncom-millenial-focused-advertising/#comment-1647 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:01:12 +0000 http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2007/08/07/mentosinterncom-millenial-focused-advertising/#comment-1647 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> Comment on More “New Facebook” Disasters – Six Things I Really Hate by A Blog About the “New Facebook” « Facebook Etiquette http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2009/03/14/more-new-facebook-disasters-six-things-i-really-hate/#comment-1645 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:39:33 +0000 http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/?p=121#comment-1645 [...] September 8, 2009 in Communication | Tags: Annoy, Blog, Communication, Etiquette, Facebook, Filter, Friend, Home page, Status Updates, Wall Has Facebook communication changed for the worse? This blogger has a few thoughts: http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2009/03/14/more-new-facebook-disasters-six-things-i-really-hate/ [...]

]]> Comment on SEO Hype and Services You Don’t Need by metafever http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2008/04/09/seo-hype-and-services-you-dont-need/#comment-1626 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:04:21 +0000 http://digitalsourcing.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-1626 Your site and posts are very interesting ! Thanks for providing such a great resource. With so many junk sites out there it’s refreshing to find one with valuable, useful information ! I’ll be back to read regularly !
Thanks,
Jeanine

]]> Comment on Take This Click-through Rate and Shove it… by CTR Is A Bad Metric For Most Brand Campaigns « Strategy 403 http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2008/04/08/take-this-click-through-rate-and-shove-it/#comment-1584 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:09:05 +0000 http://digitalsourcing.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-1584 [...] – It’s time we ended our obsession with clickthrough rates by Le’Nise Brothers – Take This Click-through Rate and Shove it… by Laura [...]

]]> Comment on Search Engine Marketing Is Not That Hard by Check my Pagerank http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2007/12/03/search-engine-marketing-is-not-that-hard/#comment-1583 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:06 +0000 http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2007/12/03/search-engine-marketing-is-not-that-hard/#comment-1583 A fantastic read….very literate and informative. Many thanks….what theme is this you are using and also, where is your RSS button ?

]]> Comment on SEO Hype and Services You Don’t Need by Lahle Wolfe http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2008/04/09/seo-hype-and-services-you-dont-need/#comment-1568 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:17:26 +0000 http://digitalsourcing.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-1568 I have been providing web site repair and SEO services for more than five years. I am sickened by the number of unscrupulous “SEO” companies that popped up almost overnight.

Many seem to capitalize on the “Google Sandbox Effect,” which I believe to be an urban legend born in part, by poor SEO practices. When sites do not get indexed people have blamed Google instead of looking to the number of poorly-done websites. I have never had a site “sandboxed” but I do not launch sites that are not already as close to perfect as possible.

There is no point in paying someone to create metadata unless your website is well designed, has quality content, and friendly navigation for humans and robots. Why should Google (or any search engine) promote cruddy sites? Instead of blaming finicky search engines, blame your SEO company for site failure or for making promises they simply cannot hbnor.

I refuse to provide even basic SEO services to any client who’s website is full or bad links (or link farms) and malfunctioning scripts and navigation. What is the point of trying to drive traffic to a broken-down website? No one will come back – including web crawlers.

This is something I tell all my clients … robots, by nature want to crawl your site. No SEO company deserves bragging rights for getting a robot to visit your site they will do that on their own in most cases. A professional should make sure your entire site is working so that robots can crawl and digest information on your website in a way that helps you in search engine returns.

Anyone can get robots to come to your site – but will they index it? A true SEO professional will ensure robots have something to feed on besides metadata so they will keep coming back and indexing more pages. This will increase your chances of appearing in search engines.

Thank you for pointing out that SEO is not about keywords but about the entire website. Any SEO company that offers you canned services and who has not first looked at your site AND researched your industry, is one to run from.

]]> Comment on Poll: Which Digital Media Do You Find Most Effective? by James M. Grandone http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2008/11/01/poll-what-digital-media-do-you-find-most-effective/#comment-1517 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:15:50 +0000 http://digitalsourcing.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-1517 Hands down the answer is that the media with the most editing wins. Those are television and newspaper news. Television news fact checks its stories. Bloggers do not. Ads lie. Email marketing wants to sell you something and sales people lie without any checks or balances. Web sites say whatever you pay the designer to say.

]]> Comment on More “New Facebook” Disasters – Six Things I Really Hate by Harry http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2009/03/14/more-new-facebook-disasters-six-things-i-really-hate/#comment-1513 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:16:09 +0000 http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/?p=121#comment-1513 I’m a new facebook user – in well after the new design took place. I can tell you that for me, as a new user, facebook is truly painful to use.
I went in because all my friends are in it so I finally bowed to the pressure, but now that I’m on it, I can’t for the life of me imagine what the heck it is they all see in it. It’s a clumsy, confused, waddling piece of software. I can only imagine it was better before, because my friends aren’t idiots, to like something like that.

]]> Comment on More “New Facebook” Disasters – Six Things I Really Hate by Product Management Reader: 19Mar09 | The Productologist: Exploring the Depths of Product Management http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/2009/03/14/more-new-facebook-disasters-six-things-i-really-hate/#comment-1512 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:27:28 +0000 http://talesfromthedigitalside.com/?p=121#comment-1512 [...] More “New Facebook” Disasters – Six Things I Really Hate [Tales from the Digital Side] [...]

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