The Better Blog

It’s been said that the key to becoming an expert in any field is to practice that specific task for 10,000 hours. But that’s a lot of time and your schedule is tight, so instead of dumping that workload on you, we talk to the experts, glean valuable morsels of their expertise, and then condense that knowledge into one informative and… Read More…

Reddit bills itself as “the front page of the Internet,” and while that bold boast works better with people over 22 — ya know, the ones who actually understand a print newspaper reference — there is a smidgen of truth to it. If something goes viral these days, odds are it passed through this share-happy, San Francisco-based behemoth of a site.… Read More…

Billions of dollars have been spent to get the Internet’s attention, only to discover the one surefire way to get that attention is to be cheap and shameless. We refer, of course, to festooning your articles with pictures of cats. The Internet loves cats. If you’re selling cats, you’re pretty much done here. If you aren’t… Read More…

When Henry Ford wanted a portable cup holder, he built the automobile. When the Wright brothers longed to see a small package of peanuts soar, they invented the airplane. And when Bill Gates wanted to see his favorite colors, royal blue and off white, splashed across computer screens all over the world, he made Windows.

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…