Alibi Launches Three River Stone
December 14, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
About two months ago, Three River Stone came to Alibi Productions because they needed a way to showcase their natural thin stone veneer collection online.
Three River Stone has 15 signature styles and 9 custom blends to choose from and each product needed to have its own spotlight.
Using mainly JavaScript to do the heavy lifting, we have galleries both on the home and product pages. Read our full write-up or check out Three River Stone for yourself and find out how you can get this beautiful product at your house.
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Video Blogging 101
December 8, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
Video Blogging is going to be a big part of search engine rankings and website development in the next couple of years. It’s possible that as early as the first part of 2009 we could start to see some ranking changes based on whether or not your competition has video on a similar subject.
A few days ago after watching a video with Bruce Clay on WebProNews, I got the video blogging bug. I went home that night and figured out my plan for how I was going to get started.
So I thought for my first video post I would blog about how to get started video blogging. A Video Blogging 101 if you will. This video is all about what programs I used and how I did everything from start to finish.
Video Blogging 101 from Drew Stauffer on Vimeo.
Take a look and let me know if you have any suggestions for my next video.
Technorati Tags: video, video optimization, video blogging
What is SearchWiki?
November 27, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
SearchWiki has gotten quite a bit of buzz since it launched a few days ago. With both positive and negative feedback, it will be interesting to watch this new feature develop.
Over at Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan had a nice Q & A with Cedric Dupont, Google’s SearchWiki product manager; Johanna Wright, Director of Product Management at Google and Google software engineer Corin Anderson to get some more details about the specifics of SearchWiki.
Here is a video directly from Google explaining exactly what SearchWiki is and what it can do for you.
Do you think this will change the way SEOs do their job? Give me your opinion in the comments below.
Do You Understand What I’m Selling?
November 26, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
Writing for the web seems to mystify a lot of people. Often, writers may have trouble when it comes to getting an effective point across. Two of the biggest problems with web copy is that users either a) leave the page not knowing what you’re talking about or b) have no idea what you want them to do.
I was talking to my sister a few months ago and asked her why she never commented on my blog or if she ever read it. She told me that she read it all the time but never understood anything I was talking about. Since she is the exact type of everyday business person I am hoping to sell my services to, this is a big problem.
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Speaking Engagements
November 5, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
The past two months have been extremely busy for me. A few weeks ago I was on a radio talk show with Jane from BPM in Pensacola, Florida speaking on Search Engine Optimization and then this morning I was at the NCMPR conference in Spartanburg, South Carolina speaking on SEO as well.
Hopefully the radio talk show with BPM is going to be an available podcast download. I’ll let everyone know as soon as I know. I’ve done many presentations at Jackson Dawson this past year for special groups of writers and various companies, but the NCMPR conference was the first conference that I was invited to speak at and it was a great learning experience.
Now, with all the work that I’ve put into my presentations and interviews, it’s time to take a break. The blogging is going to be a little light around here for the next couple of weeks but since I’ve only been posting about twice a month, you shouldn’t even notice I’m gone.
*** This post was supposed to be published on Oct 20th…whoops. I’m back from vacation now.
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Traveling With A Light Load
October 12, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
The past couple weeks I have been traveling and flying to various places like Denver, San Diego, and Atlanta. I’m slowly realizing that my arsenal of computer accessories that make working while you travel easier drastically needs to be upgraded. When I travel I try and keep my load as light as possible, but even the lightest load means multiple devices accompanied by numerous sets of wires and cases.
I am one of those people that likes to find new places to purchase my computer items and after a little research I came across Super Warehouse. I was delighted to see that Super Warehouse carried Apple computers and products.
Super Warehouse carries numerous products that I use on a daily basis like the ipod shuffle and the iphone and the site offers free shipping on select orders, product specials, buying guides, and much more.
Searching around the site I found a variety of cases and ipod accessories for my Apple products and I can’t wait to get home and order a few new items that will make my next trip more enjoyable.
Getting work done while you travel is never the easiest task, but setting yourself up with the best products is the first step. The next time you need anything computer related branch out from your regular stores and see if Super Warehouse can help.
How I Gained 20,000 Links in Two Months
September 17, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
Now I know what you’re thinking,”No way you could do that unless you got to the front page of Digg.” Close, but not quite.
I remember a few years ago when inbound links started getting very popular. Everyone in the SEO world was scouring the web for as many links as possible because we learned that inbound links were one of the big determining factors in how well your website ranked.
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Working Through Writers’ Block
September 9, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
Keeping up with the daily routine of a blog is not the easiest task. A lot of companies want a blog, but don’t realize how hard it is to keep updated content - that is until they realize they haven’t posted anything in 3 months.
Blogging gets even harder when it’s not your full time job and for a lot of people, it isn’t. I personally write for four different blogs and as much as I would like to post something every day on all of them, I just can’t.
Being surrounded by SEO, design, and development all day long between my 9-5 job and freelancing, you would think that I would have a slew of topics to write about, but everyone gets writers’ block occasionally.
Search Quality-Defined by Google
August 6, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
Having an accessible website is one of the most important aspects of web design. Immediately following accessibility is usability. If a user cannot figure out how to use your site then they’re not going to stick around.
Have you ever wondered what steps Google takes to maximize usability? Most people might look at a results page from Google and think they just wanted to keep things simple - white page with 10 links to websites and very few distracting elements.
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Elements of SEO Update
July 30, 2008 // Drew Stauffer
***UPDATE: Elements of SEO version 1.3 is now available. Get it while its hot!
After submitting my theme to the new Wordpress Theme Directory, I was required to make a few tweaks. Elements of SEO 1.1 now has some exciting new features, including:
- Gravatar support
- Tag support
While I was making these edits I also decided to fix the widget bullets that were appearing. Ordinarily, if you downloaded the theme, uploaded it and didn’t activate any widgets then you would have the exact same setup in the sidebars as the demo site.
After reviewing a few sites that were using the theme, I noticed that a lot of people were implementing widgets. The problem that I was seeing was on the widget sections, there was a random bullet being added to the heading.
I didn’t really like how that looked since nothing else in the design had bullets styled like that, so I decided to remove them. Now you can add widgets all day long and it will look exactly the same as the demo site.
Download Elements of SEO 1.2 to get the new features and fix the widget heading bug.
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