Archive for September, 2007
Top tips on harnessing SEO power for your blog
Friday, September 28th, 2007Your blog can be a very powerful marketing tool when you take the necessary, yet easy, steps to ensure that it is search engine optimized. Search engines place a high importance on blogs because of its frequently updated active content. Hypothetically, the search engine is essentially fueled by the need to find new, [...]
Do word relationship counselors obtain better search rankings? Google thinks so.
Friday, September 28th, 2007Ah, the good ole’ days when a word was just a word. You need not wonder if you paid enough attention to it, brought it flowers on rare occasions, or remembered its birthday. Oh, how things have changed.
When searching Google, you may have recently noticed a considerable change in overall search results and relevancy scores. This has largely been contributed to what I refer to as Googles new virtual relationship counselor, but this is better known as Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). What is LSI and how does it work, you ask? Well, the good news is that you need not make an appointment, pay $200 per hour, nor sit on a reclining couch and answer questions about your childhood to benefit from its services.
How to Apologize without Losing Your Pride
Friday, September 28th, 2007It’s not a new thing: you get into an argument with your spouse, and you lose your cool, and before you know it, you are seeing red. You might say some things that you didn’t mean, or perhaps even some things with the intention of hurting the other person’s feelings.
Surviving a Long Distance Relationship
Friday, September 28th, 2007If you are in, or thinking about being in, a long distance relationship you’ve probably already asked yourself, “How can we make this work?” The key, of course, is communication.
The first thing you need to decide before going any further is if this relationship is worth it to you, because it is not going to [...]
Non-Verbal Communication: Let’s Focus on Eye Contact
Friday, September 28th, 2007This article should be a shorter one as I’m going to get straight to the point: eye contact. What is it, what does it mean, and how can you make it more effective?
Conflict Resolution: When is an argument worth the fight?
Friday, September 28th, 2007When is an argument worth fighting for?
Part of being human is causing and experiencing conflict. It’s an unavoidable fact of life that we, as people, have to live with every day. It doesn’t matter what your intentions are or whether those intentions were good or bad. At the end of the day you’re going to [...]
There, Their, and They’re
Sunday, September 9th, 2007The English language is not necessarily the easiest to understand linguistically. There are more rules, clauses, modifiers, and exceptions than any other popular language. So, it’s no surprise that many people have a problem with duplicate words (words that sound the same but don’t mean the same thing).
There, their, and they’re are prime examples. [...]