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Comment on Six Ways to Build Word of Mouth Online by Missy

Missy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:54:54 +0000

Great advice! Well put.

Comment on Five Questions You Should Ask Your Drupal Developer by Stitch Technologies - Los Angeles Web Development

Stitch Technologies - Los Angeles Web Development — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:16:21 +0000

I have personally worked with a lot of “Drupal developers” on jobs in the past only to find out that they really didn’t know their Drupal. They knew php and mysql but they just didn’t quite “get” how drupal works. This is extremely good advice for any company out there trying to hire a Drupal developer. I can only hope that more companies find this post and use it in their job interviews.

Comment on Seven Reasons Why Flash Might Be On The Decline by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:41:59 +0000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/virgin_america_html_flash/

Looks like your analysis was spot on…

Comment on CommonPlaces Hires New COO to Support Rapid Growth by Bert

Bert — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:05:08 +0000

Congrats to Mike!

Comment on Lifetime Digital – Great Case Study on Drupal Scalability by Drupal Theme Garden

Drupal Theme Garden — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:07:18 +0000

Thanks for the link, it is really useful.

Comment on Lifetime Digital – Great Case Study on Drupal Scalability by drupal

drupal — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:40:35 +0000

http://www.quantcast.com/mylifetime.com the numbers seem to be slightly exaggerated.

Comment on Seven Reasons Why Flash Might Be On The Decline by Brian Peddle

Brian Peddle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:13:39 +0000

Adobe does have a flash packager for iPhone available:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

Comment on Seven Reasons Why Flash Might Be On The Decline by Harry

Harry — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:54:35 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Rob. I guess there are only two solutions – either Flash comes to mobile devices, or Flash becomes less utilized on the Web. It will be interesting to see which comes first.

I did actually mention your SEO concern near the beginning of the article. Search engines won’t penalize you for extensive use of Flash, but I think you are limiting the amount of success you can realize in many cases.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Comment on Seven Reasons Why Flash Might Be On The Decline by Rob Forrest

Rob Forrest — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:52:37 +0000

I completely agree. I use an iPhone for about 40% of my communication and application needs daily… I’m on it now as a matter of fact.

You forgot to mention that search crawlers don’t pick up all of the content within flash, so these sites get missed or at least downgraded in search results.

And it is only going to get worse…

Comment on Explaining PPC Traffic vs Organic Traffic by Vincent Ammirato

Vincent Ammirato — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:42:17 +0000

A little late to the discussion but:

I’ve been lucky to get #1 for a competitive and lucrative phrase and you are spot on about the .5% conversion rate. Most people come to the site because we offer a registration free property search…they just want to look.

If you want to be #1 organically, you have to offer something for free…something great.

But PPC helps you figure out the basics. The immediacy of the traffic provides data for improvement that helps ensure you will better capture, inform/entertain, and convert organic traffic when it finally comes.

And the better you do that, the higher you’ll climb.