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Headlines On The Web Benefit From Passive Voice

October 25, 2007 By Graham English

Boing Boing posted an article summarizing Jakob Nielsen's findings that web-headlines benefit from the use of the passive voice. Great copywriters will tell you that your headlines need powerful action words and compelling benefits to get the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: best practices, Blogging, Copywriting, headlines, tips

Tips On Using Wordtracker

October 14, 2007 By Graham English

John Alexander, who, by the way, is giving away his ebook, Wordtracker Magic, which I paid good money for a couple years back, gave some great tips for finding keywords using Wordtracker. When you attempt to research a specific phrase that is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: best practices, Keyword Research, keywords, tips, Wordtracker

Where Do You Begin If You Think You’ve Been Penalized By Google?

June 12, 2007 By Graham English

Rand Fishkin has posted an excellent flow chart for determining how to handle a Google penalty. Speaking of Google penalties, Google webmaster tools just added a form to report paid links. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: best practices, Google, HowTo, reference, SEO, tips, tutorials, webmaster, workflow

Duplicate Content And The Problogger Group Writing Project

May 10, 2007 By Graham English

I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't mention the SEO consequences of duplicating the entire list from Darren Rowse's Group Writing Project. It's never a good idea to duplicate someone else's content on your own blog. You now have duplicate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: AdSense, best practices, Blogging, copyright, creating content, duplicate content, Google, SEO, supplemental index, tips

Automation As Part Of An Integral Life Practice

May 3, 2007 By Graham English

Most repetitive tasks are energy sucks. Opening the same web pages every day, clicking our way around the cybersphere, answering the same questions to our customers, all of these tasks are relatively low-value and cumulatively add up to a large chunk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: 80/20 rule, Apple, AppleScript, automation, best practices, energy management, GTD, hacks, HowTo, ILP, LifeHacks, Mac, OSX, Practice, productivity

GTD: Automator Wants To Know What You Are Doing Right Now

April 8, 2007 By Graham English

I'm into systems. I love figuring out how to get from point A to point B and then optimizing the process as efficiently as possible. Better yet, I love being able to turn a system on and not have to think about it again. This is one of those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, behavior, best practices, entrepreneur, GTD, HowTo, LifeHacks, Mac, Neuro-Logical Levels, NLP, OSX, peak performance, Practice, productivity, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Twitter

Top 10 Twitter DOs and DON’Ts

April 5, 2007 By Graham English

You've got a blog. You've got email, SMS, and IM. These are great tools for communication. Email and text messaging are two-way conversations. Blogging is mostly a one-to-many conversation. But what about something in-between? Twitter is part … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: best practices, Blogging, communication, conversations, Dave Winer, hacks, iChat, IM, LifeHacks, lists, Mac, networking, plugins, RSS, SEO, SMS, social, software, Technology, Top 10, tutorial, Twitter, Web 2.0, wiki, Wordpress

WebDev Best Practice: Use Dark Fonts On Light Backgrounds

January 15, 2007 By Graham English

People read content 32% faster on dark font on light backgrounds. Read the full report. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: best practices, Web Design

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