While birds of a feather are known to flock together, us painted birds had a different endevour. I knew there was something a little strange about Nick when I first met him some 15 years ago. We were both teenagers auditioning for the acting program at Perprich Center for the Art, a charter high school [...]

We Are Back, Let’s Talk Cognitive Psychology SEO or Search Engine Optimization is made up of a lot of working fields. In a way, it is a very new field that many people are just now beginning to understand and most of the time clients assume computer science is the dominant element in the field. Markov chains [...]

I started an MBA program, I have a few graduate degrees and some other undergraduate degrees in business but figured that there is more to learn. Occasionally, I will talk a bit about things learned and applied to SEO. In the sales and marketing courses there is heavy movement towards placing a high level premium [...]

Online Reputation Management & Dell Hell This post is for small businesses that want to know in advance how to deal with online reputation management or those larger businesses that are struggling with it. It is half public relations and half SEO towards positive results. Learn how to convert the negative into the positive and [...]

Web 3.0 explained with a stamp (pt I: the basics) A great, fast explanation of the semantic web Think about how you describe a business. If you like Target, do you describe the bull’s-eye symbol to your coworker during your coffee break? No. You describe why you like the business. Do they have what you [...]

What is Information Retrieval & How Does It Affect SEO? Bottom Line Time Nick! Information retrieval, (wikipedia makes it more fun than most definitions )sounds nasty doesn’t it (students , disregard that , study it up and learn your algorithms because they are good to know  for grad school) , but it is another piece [...]

How Search Engines Work: Metadata and Humans This article will tell you how a search engine really works, give you some background on the parts that fit together to make traffic, and back it up with academic credentials to show you help you get started on the SEO journey. Warning, Some Dry Academic Stuff Ahead (To Skip [...]