Michael David is the founder, current CEO, and lead strategist at TastyPlacement, based in Austin, Texas. He is the author of "WordPress 3.0 Search Engine Optimization" with the prestigious IT publisher, Packt Publishing. TastyPlacement performs search marketing campaigns, public relations, search engine optimization, social media consulting and online advertising for companies in a wide range of fields.
Book Review: The Art of SEO by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, and Jessie C. Stricchiola It’s hard for me to review The Art of SEO–after all, the book was a gift from author Eric Enge, owner of search marketing firm Stone Temple Consulting. Eric gave me a copy at PubCon Paradise in Honolulu […]
Have you run a multi-user blog that gone out of control? I had an open blog that over the years accumulated thousands of, ahem, “poor quality” articles in “pending” status. Rather than delete them in batches in the admin, I figured an SQL command that can remove all of them in a few seconds. But […]
Google Says it’s Forbidden and it’s Bad for Clients (So Why are Agencies Still Doing It?) While working on our own WordPress SEO, we’ve learned that site-wide footer links have always been dicey at best (you know, “Designed by Denver SEO Company” in the footer of a website). They were easy to detect both visually and […]
Billions of dollars worth of precious metals are used every year to manufacture the cellphones, laptops and other electronics we use on a daily basis. As these computers and gadgets reach the end of their life cycles, they get scrapped or put in storage until they can be recycled in a process known as “urban […]
We’ve assembled a non-exclusive list of 100 great tips and tricks from the event from all the Pubcon sessions we were able to attend. We aren’t going for depth here–we are expressing what we feel are the best ideas in a super-concise format. Each of the ideas here are pretty powerful and can easily warrant […]
Awesome New Google Business Panoramas Extend Street View Technology We recently noticed business panoramas appearing on Google Places/Maps pages for a number of businesses in Austin, TX. These business panoramas operate just like Google Street View, and in fact, in some cases you can follow the street view right through the doors of a business […]
Stripe.com handles credit card payments at 2.9% (the same as PayPal) and let’s you integrate a single payment page or popup page within your WordPress site. Stripe is setup not as a total ecommerce solution, but rather is a better fit for single payments or donations. It has the advantage over PayPal in that customers […]
Updated for 2012 Have you ever wondered how many 800 x 600 website viewers are still roaming the internet? More than you might think. More importantly, have you ever wondered about the monitor sizes of the viewers of your own site? The capability to discern your own user statistics (monitor sizes, and a lot more) […]
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to block bad bots and spiders from your website. This is a standard safety measure we implement with our WordPress SEO service. We can save bandwidth and performance for customers, increase security, and prevent scrapers from putting duplicate content around the web. Quick Start Instructions/Roadmap For those looking to […]
Google’s Matt Cutts announced at the PubCon marketing conference that Google is rolling out a new much-anticipated link disavowal tool. Bad links from poor quality sites can harm a site’s rankings in Google, and Google has implemented this tool to let webmasters remove bad links from their link profile. TastyPlacement has been able to use this tool […]
