Yesterday I went to a workshop about ARIA and HTML5, hosted by the Web Industry Professionals Association (WIPA) in conjunction with the Austrailan Web Industry Association (I heard they’re merging soon?) The workshop featured Steve Faulkner, who talked about WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications), and Bruce Lawson, who talked about HTML5. [...]
You may have read or heard about Vitaly Borker. Vitaly Borker makes a living from negative press – there’s an 8-page article about him on the New York Times website. He runs an online store selling glasses (at least, that’s one of his ventures). As an SEO strategy, he screws up customer orders and is [...]
Photography is a hobby of mine and I’m a member of a couple of photography forums/sites. A few times now I’ve been asked for advice by photographers who have their own websites and want to know how to optimise them, or why they aren’t ranking for particular keywords. I find that in most cases photography, [...]
You may have noticed the different look of Google’s SERPs lately. Whereas before you’d see a list of Google Places (previously Google Local) results next to a map, now these are integrated with the main set of organic listings. In terms of SEO, this means that having a Google Places listing for your business is [...]
