There have been a number of debates about what “smart thinking” truly means and how people can apply it correctly to their lives and business endeavors in order to achieve quick, positive results. Some, of course, would argue that, in order to be a smart thinker, you…
In this day and age, being able to multitask is seen by many as a crucial requirement, especially in the fast paced world of business, where productivity is everything. But how productive is multitasking, and can it truly help you get everything done better and faster? The Advantages and Disadvantages…
Preparing for work or for any significant event or activity you may want to take part in is not always easy. There are many people who have lost great opportunities for advancement simply because they were nervous, anxious or they just didn’t feel ready. Of course, if…
Hidden In Plain Sight: Why We Have Unproductive Days Even though many believe that circumstance has a large role to play in “making” you unproductive, people who have reached a certain level of success have always known that there’s much more to it than that. The basic idea here is that your own…
Most site owners want to rank highly for certain keywords. They will try a lot of methods to achieve this goal. Once they are done, many are unsure how they should test their work. Some will simply type the keywords on a search box and see how their sites rank. In this video, Tommo from…
Guillaume is bothered by the constant chatter about PageRank. From what he knows, it is just one of the many different signals currently being used to determine ranking. Getting obsessed with it is therefore counterproductive. Although Google has stated this fact many times, he thinks that it would be good for Matt Cutts to issue…
Some webmasters are getting discouraged because spammers are dominating their industries. While Google does its best to act on spam reports, it could take months before concrete actions are taken. How are they supposed to compete using only white hat techniques when their rivals are not playing fair? Matt Cutts points out that “black…
A Google user wandered into Matt Cutt’s personal blog and noticed that it uses WordPress. The visitor wonders how Matt is able to keep his site safe from hackers given the platform’s tendency to suffer from attacks. Matt shares three of his strategies: Update Frequently Hackers exploit known vulnerabilities in old versions of…
Google has never revealed its search algorithm in full. At best, the company drops hints and provides general guidelines for optimization. The lack of specific information in many topics has created an environment wherein SEO theories abound. A webmaster from Colorado wants to know if there is any truth behind one of them that deals…
Dave Shuts from England bought a domain 7 months prior and yet it still isn’t showing up on search engine result pages. He wonders if its history might have something to do with the situation. Digging deeper, he found that it was first registered in 2000 and it has since gone through a number of…
