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Slow Down, SEO is Still Very New: Not Everyone is Ready to Embrace It

November 30, 2006

Clueless Technology ProfessionalsSEO is a very insular field. My impression from my readings of SEO blogs is that many SEOs themselves are so involved in search engine optimization that sometimes they forget that there’s a whole wide world of individuals who still don’t know about it and why it is necessary.

A few months ago, I didn’t know what SEO was either. The term was used in front of me, and I’ll admit (with a little blush :oops: ) that I didn’t know what in the world SEO meant and shrugged it off whenever it was mentioned rather than asking. I never wanted to find out what it was because I didn’t want to risk looking stupid among people to whom SEO is a daily routine.

I come from a mixed technology background: I started off dabbling in programming and web development, though I realized I fared better with more of hardware, networking, and system administration work. I began my career in SEO by actually doing system administration at a web design, SEO, and hosting firm. And I still didn’t know what SEO was when I joined up with the team.

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CNN reports Over 100,000,000 Websites: A Walk Through History

November 2, 2006

Netcraft's Data That There Are 100 Million WebsitesA source at Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has been tracking the growth of websites for over 10 years, has informed CNN that there are 100 million websites on the Internet. A little less than half of that are sites that are “busy and updated often.”

Surprised? I’m not. Technorati says it’s tracking 58.6 million blogs. 100 million in comparison is not such a big jump (even though the larger number tracks distinct hostnames, and a lot of blogs are on subdomains, e.g. something.typepad.com).

Netcraft provides even more interesting data in their own blog giving the breakdown of the types of web hosts. I’m not surprised with these results either, although the not-so-technically savvy individual might be wondering what an Apache is. For me and my line of work, having Apache at over 60% of the market share is expected (and for me, preferred). I can’t emphasize the ease of setting up sites on Apache (on Linux, more particularly) — but I’ll save that for a later post. It is a little shocking that the numbers have dropped in the past months, but hey, the term Microsoft is familiar to every household, and as sites grow and new hosting companies solicit their services, a lot of people are likely to turn to a Microsoft server because it’s a name they are used to.

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Cool Website of the Day: Yotophoto.com Allows You to Search for “Free” Photos

September 30, 2006

Need some images for your new site or blog and don’t know where to download them? Don’t want to pay a hefty fee to download from one of hundreds of stock photography websites (especially if you have no revenue)? Look no further. Yotophoto allows you to search through hundreds of copyleft photos from such sites as Flickr and Wikimedia Commons.

Yotophoto allows you to search photos by category but by color too. And the search engine takes hexadecimal values.

Better yet, there’s even a Firefox Plugin for Yotophoto already available, so you don’t have to go to the site every time you want to search.

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Cool Website of the Day: NYC Google Map Hack

September 26, 2006

I’ve decided that there’s a lot of potential for my blog to go in many different directions, since, after all, its title is “Everything Tech.” I could focus on the same kind of content that I find when I read a lot of the inspirational websites that I subscribe to on Bloglines, my RSS feed reader, or I can be a little bit different.

I’m choosing the path less traveled by.

The focus of the “website of the day” blog (or, I’ll be likely to provide an update every few days with only resourceful links) is to share something new and unique — or so I hope. Further, it’s something that you should be bookmarking or digging on its own merit, not on the fact that I’ve decided to publicize it.

Without further ado, I now feature onNYTurf: NYC Subway Google Map. For me, as a New York resident, this is one of the most interesting subway maps that exist today. I should also mention at this point that I am married to a transit geek; just check out his gallery.

Edit 9/30/06: Gawker adds on this and provides a NYC Subway Smell Map. Ah, no thanks. Maybe I’ll walk after all. –tw

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