#Throwbackthursday! This is the very first website I created, sometime back in 1998. It was a website about a popular Mac RPG called Realmz, and it was my first foray in HTML and web design. It was originally hosted on Geocities (Area51/Hollow/3695) and moved around over the years until it’s final resting place on Tripod, …

So the other day, I was trying to access some data in Bing Webmaster Tools for one of the sites that I manage, and I noticed that all of the sites had become unverified. I tried to re-verify the sites, but it kept timing out with the following message: “Timed Out If you were adding …

I just noticed that there is now a designator for “current contributor” or “past contributor” in the “Contributor To” section of Google+. Presumably this is for people who might have been contributors to a publication or a blog, but have since moved onto another company. My first thought was that this is related to Google …

I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but it looks as though Google is now providing exact numbers in their Crawl Stats report in Google Webmaster Tools: I’m not sure how accurate these numbers are, but since they don’t appear to be rounded, I’m going to assume that they’re fairly accurate. So far Google has …

Ever since Google officially recommended responsive design for mobile SEO, I’ve heard SEOs parroting Google and claiming that responsive design is the best approach to take for mobile sites. However, I’ve always argued that responsive design is far from ideal since it doesn’t allow you to optimize load time or user experience for mobile users. …