Archive for April, 2013
It’s been said that the key to becoming an expert is simply practicing a specific task for 10,000 hours. But your schedule is tight, so what we do is talk to the experts in their fields, glean many morsels of their expertise, and then condense that knowledge into one yummy 10-minute nugget. This week we’re… Read More…
Here it is: 10,000 hours of experience running a huge online community, distilled into a 10-minute read. We started our comedy community GAB on ZUG back in the mid-nineties, back when Web communities were still fairly new. While there were plenty of online communities on Usenet and AOL, ours was the first Web-based comedy community,… Read More…
Optimizing websites for search engines is a practice that may have began back when Jumanji was clogging up movie theaters, but the phrase “SEO” and knowledge of it has really exploded in recent years. These days everyone from the savvy Fortune 500 exec to the sassy granny selling handmade quilts knows about the importance of search engine optimization. But there are people who… Read More…
For anyone creating and promoting their own content, it’s hard to find a better platform than Google+. G+ is currently the second-largest social network on the web, with only Facebook claiming higher numbers of active users. As of January 2013, it has more active users than Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn and Tumblr. It also has a very… Read More…
If everyone used to be a critic, then today everyone is a publisher. From corporations to personal blogs, the Internet is filling up faster than Louie Anderson at Fuddruckers.
If you’re gonna call yourself Mr. Web Guru, you oughta know what you’re talking about. Luckily that indeed is the case with Robert Wright. For nearly 20 years he’s been an expert on search engines and SEO, and now his expertise has extended into the realm of social media. Mr. Web Guru offers a wealth… Read More…
As a website or blog owner, you’re sure to receive countless preachings from others on the importance of SEO. “More important than regular toenail clippings,” they’ll say to you as they seek to hammer home their point. Sure, proper keyword usage is important for many reasons. Yet, there’s a fundamental problem in the industry: SEOs are… Read More…
Did you feel the earth tremble this week? Perhaps you did, and we know why. What you felt was the jolt of ZUG.com, the world’s greatest comedy website since 1995, finally closing its online doors on April 1st. This time, there was no fooling. I was one of Zug’s main contributors of comedy content since 2011, and I had the… Read More…