Hitwise reported that early last month, YouTube

Sometimes you just have to put aside the world of search engines and ad campaigns to read, or write, something a little more fulfilling.

Webmasterworld recently had a good thread about signs of low quality websites. The less a person knows about your topic the more likely they are to rely on general signs of quality (or lack of) when consider if they should link at your site or not.

There’s a reason why every single news article you read today, whether at the New York Times or on an individual blog, has one or more links to submit that article to a social media service – the publisher wants the massive traffic a Digg or a Reddit can deliver.

Back in the days, to get into the search engines you only had to submit a site to them and it’d show up in the results (or you could just get listed in the Yahoo directory).

Well, I just finished delivering a presentation for the Madison, Wisconsin Advertising Federation.

I chanced to find a most staggering item on Karen Blakeman’s Blog entitled UK Government to Close Down Web Sites.

The British government has announced that it will close at least 551 websites in order to streamline as part of a plan to revamp its online presence. The decision is outlined in the Transformational Government Annual Report 2006, which was released earlier this week.

Though you could read about the overall process of creating natural websites and integrating all aspects of web design, SEO, usability and accessibility in the process before, some more information about structuring your website may be useful as well.

The first week of a new year, people want two things overall: a new body and a new job. Last week we found out that on New Year’s Day, visits to dieting websites spiked by 57 percent. By the end of the week it seems all that dieting is going toward a new suit as visits to job site jump by 31 percent.

From large scale stat providers right down to the smallest detail it is easy to take a statistic out of context and draw false conclusions from it.

As I was doing my regular (track orders) reports I’ve clicked through a URL to see our company’s Order Thank you page (the one customers see when they hit SUBMIT at the end of their order process).

When President Bush gives his State of the Union address on January 23rd, a new political website anchored by a pair of veteran reporters will debut at ThePolitico.com.

For a website that supports multiple languages, it is important to tell the client what the selected language is.

The results are in! The names of the top 20 U.S. domains have been released, and you might have guessed the winner.