Most of the team from Distinct SEO have now returned from an extended 'vacation' (we were away but not necessarily a vacation at all times 
). We're answering some emails and tying up some loose ends getting the ship back on track. In the meantime, please drop us an email, let us know how you're doing for regular blog readers, and if you're searching the site and have a question, heck, contact us too, it's free u know...........
Barry
The entire team of Distinct SEO is taking a month off! That's what you can do when you employ yourself I guess. We have some folks on contract during the time but they'll be taken care of. In the meantime, if you email us don't expect a response until the first week of June. We promise we'll get back to you then, and maybe we'll even post up some pics. But until then, happy Summer wherever you are (or end of Spring).
-B
It is now fact that Google Adwords will give your landing page a lower quality score if it takes forever to load. This was discussed at Webmaster World and Search Engine Watch. My question, when will Google search implement the same test on their trust/quality scores for web pages?
Greywolf has made his usual cynical/pragmatic take on the recent Google Analytics announcement (check the update when you log into your Analytics account.) Basically Google is saying you can share your data with other Google tools. That's great! you can benefit from their infinite willingness to help you!
Last week we blogged about how big name companies, even media and web outlets, do not employ even the basics of SEO. This week, we want to show you why having basic knowledge of web servers will save you brutal embarrassment. How's this for bad.
In Alberta the provincial election took place March 3rd, 2008. One of new and competing conservative parties in the running were looking to steal for votes from the dominant PC party. Only problem, they are so new that people don't know much about them. How do folks check out the platform and even find out about candidates? Usually online nowadays. Only problem? On election day you couldn't! It was ELECTION DAY and the web site went down due to too many visitors!
Well it's been a while since we've posted a client testimonial! That's partly because we have consistent and longterm clients, and because some other clients rather remain anonymous (that's OK too.) Here are the thoughts from Jason, owner of Premierglow.com, another client that saw a huge difference to their bottom line after our contributions to their web marketing initiatives.
1. How did you find Distinct SEO?
I found Barry from seochat.com. Barry was an active participant in on going discussions concerning seo. He also came highly recommended by other users.
2. Describe your experience with the Distinct SEO team.
I dealt exclusively with Barry who was very informative and polite concerning our goals. He made sure we understood results don’t happen overnight, and is an ongoing process. In addition Barry always made sure to share results and ask our opinion concerning changes.
I'm always shocked to note how large web sites don't invest in basic SEO. Seriously, there's a massive market to be had if a slick and slimy SEO and convince big web sites they can capitalise on some very basic SEO tactics. Case in point? Canadian sports network Sportsnet. I was checking out the latest trade rumors (NHL trading deadline today) and typed in the web site 'http://sportsnet.ca'. Well would you know, error page. What? Sites down?! Too many trades going on. So I put the addy in Google and what do I get? The www version of Sportsnet.
Let me get this straight, Sportsnet, massive network, is so shortsided they can't implement a 301 redirect for their non-www version to the www? It won't even load folks! Errors galore! I also noticed they use IIS, big mistake there Imagine how much extra traffic they'd garner employing some simple SEO techniques--they'd trump TSN!
I don't really know what to call them but the whois data reads, "MetaPredict" as the registrant. But first, some context. I've been developing, or rather, coding a new design for a web site I own as a hobby. Basically I'm using an old domain as my test server. Easy enough yea? Well I also had some broken links in my design on my server (with an unused and unindexed as far as I knew domain.) Basically I misspelled the domain name of the real web site in some outgoing nav links. In fact, I can tell you exactly how I spelled the 'mistake'....
