It grates when people write poorly, huh. When writers write well, the words almost become invisible. The focus shifts away from technical details, and onto the message. Is there an easy way to write better blog posts? E-mails? Web copy? Let’s take a look at three guidelines for web writing. 1. If You Can Say It, You Can Write It The Dilbert Mission Statement Generator – sadly now offline – comes up with convoluted gems this: “Our challenge is to assertively network economically sound methods of empowerment so that we may continually negotiate performance based...

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From: seoish.com Once upon a time people wrote articles about high value keywords and tried to rank for them. This occurred because Adsense displayed ads that were based on the content of a website. As a result of this there are many articles about high paying keywords like “laywers” or “asbestos” and not so many articles about lower paying subjects. Chasing high dollar keywords had a large scale influence on what the web looks like today (spammy). This has now changed. What I am referring to is the use of browser history to display ads. Just because you have a “cat” website does not...

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by Stone Reuning (from: searchengineguide.com) Google’s new system for indexing content on the Internet, Caffeine, went live June 8. It used to be that Google updated its indexes every couple weeks. Now it’s darn close to real time. This is good news if you update your content regularly. Since Google now refreshes its index much more frequently, it will be constantly looking for the most relevant results to display for any given search phrase. Wait a minute!  What if I’m not adding content to my website regularly? While this isn’t an algorithmic adjustment in how...