Knowledge and tools for the small business owner and eCommerce webmaster.

What is a URL? URLs explained

There are lots of things in this world that we use everyday and don’t know how they work…televisions, cell phones, microwave ovens, search engines, URLs, speaking for myself, of course. If you’re involved in online business (and if you’re reading this you no doubt are) having a working knowledge of a URL is an important […]

It’s the little things (changes to Google Reader)

“I read this great blog post the other day…was it from the Search Engine Watch blog? Search Engine Roundtable? Search Engine Land? Search Engine Guide? Or maybe it was SEO Chicks?”
Never again will I have to scroll through 208 blog posts looking for that one “needle in a feedstack” that I just know I read […]

CDs Turn 25

25 years ago today a revolution was begun. Some shrugged off the new media as the generation before them had shrugged off The Beatles. (”Rock and Roll won’t last.”)
The first compact disc was pressed in Germany by the Philips factory, a division of Polygram. Overlooking their unfortunate choice for first pressing — ABBA’s The […]