What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Categories Categories are definitely something I need to sort out here, but then again disassociated's entire under-carriage needs a bit of a tweak. Because of the way they are misused all over the Web, categories have grown to become something that we regard in a purely user-centric light. We think of them as navigational tools and guides for users, but in reality, categories are ... Read full entry

SEO with Rand Fishkin. Richard Durnall interviews Rand Fishkin, CEO of Seattle based SEOmoz. In the most basic sense, Search Engine Optimization is simply the practice of improving a website or webpage to receive more traffic through search engines. That alone is somewhere that I think some folks get confused - it's not about rankings, it's about traffic. If you concentrate on trying to achieve rankings for a few ... Read full entry

Digg, you used to be cool: "Digg used to be a site for, well let's say it, nerds. It was full of the weird and wonderful, interesting and unique, but now it seems to be a place for shameless promotion, special interests and bitching." This may strike a chord with some... Ancient sea mud records supernova blast: from New Scientist. Seems an exploding supernova in our galactic ... Read full entry

Are there really a couple of million of internet, and affiliate, marketers? Are there also the same number of SEO gurus? While my numbers may be slightly exaggerated, you'd be forgiven for thinking that was the case when it seems nearly every other blog about is dedicated to one or other of those topics. Ever since disassociated was ... Read full entry

I'm probably telling you nothing when I tell you (some of you yet again) disassociated.com is a blog without a niche. I don't write steadily or consistently on a given topic. There's no specialist focus or theme here. So, not quite a ship without a rudder, but something like that. In fact I have a very Jackson Pollock approach to blogging... I simply do it because I like it. I ... Read full entry