Web Traffic building tips

I just read an article on how to build web traffic, and thought I’d make a few comments on it.
Garrett (the author) makes some good points about online traffic building. They boil down to suggestions I’ve been making lately:
1. have good, focused content: Garrett mentions that your audience needs to consist of people who want [...]

Website Credibility Equals Pleasing Design?!!?

Ok. I’m probably behind the times here, but I was thinking about how people evaluate website credibility (and more to the point, how I teach it in search engine classes). So I did a search to find some examples of best practices, and came across this amazing study done in 2002. It scared me.
Why did [...]

Percent Finder Calculator Shareware Program

I’m sitting here, working on an idea for a possible article, and I wanted to know some percentages… unfortunately for me, the Windows calculator is my friend and crutch when it comes to numbers.
Enter Percent Finder Calculator Shareware Program - an awesome little program for those of us who are mathematically challenged.
What’s it do? It [...]

For Next Year’s Internet Librarian

“Monterey Salinas Airbus provides exclusive, inexpensive, scheduled bus and minivan service to and from SFO and SJC international airports from the Monterey Peninsula.”
So you don’t HAVE to fly to Monterey (probably cheaper, too). I’m certainly gonna try this next year.

My thoughts on Internet Librarian 2004

First off - I really SHOULD have tried to stay for the whole conference, for a number of reasons… but mainly it looks like I missed some great presentations! I was there for Monday’s presentations.
Alrightie… The Pew dude was cool (Lee Rainie, Director of Pew Internet and American Life Project)! By the way, they have [...]

Free Range Librarian is bugged by bloggers

Karen Schneider had some interesting things to say about bloggers being, well… bloggers at Internet Librarian 2004. Mainly concerning the observation that they might not be listening as well as they should be, and that their blogging might not be terribly courteous.
Here’s my take on it (speaking as a presenter who had bloggers in attendance):
1. [...]

Virtual Tours as an online resource

The Virtual Tours at Las Vegas/Clark County Library District’s website are pretty cool - they are tours of what the library considers to be “useful resources.” They’re things like the Family History Center and a Legal Services self-help center. That a great idea!
But - we could take that idea further. In Kansas City, for example [...]

Library Journal - Technoplans vs. Technolust

Library Journal - Technoplans vs. Technolust
Cool! Michael Stephens, Special Projects Librarian at St. Joseph County Public Library and blogger for Tame the Web, wrote this article for Library Journal’s netConnect… and quoted me! How cool is that?
It’s also a great article with some very good pointers for creating and implementing technology plans. Read it!

CNN doesn’t understand Google

CNN.com article - Brain teasers help Google recruit workers - Nov 4, 2004
Gee… here’s their lead-in to the article:
“Google Inc. locates almost anything on the Web within seconds, but finding the brainy engineers who program the company’s lightning-quick search engine takes more time — and a quirky bit of ingenuity.”
Anything on the web???? Sheesh. Why [...]

Website Statistics - Top Search Keyword and Phrases

For the last part of this series, I’ll focus on Search Engine Words and
Phrases. Yes, many different search engines direct customers to our
website - and our web stats software keeps track of which search engines
hit us, and more importantly, what words and phrases are used to find
our pages.
Here’s what happened in October (looking at phrases):
Obviously, [...]

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