Writing catchy book and articles titles can be a catch 22 affair

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 1 March, 2010 to the comment subset

Writing titles for articles that are all at once pithy, witty, informative, and memorable, is pretty difficult, to the point of bordering on the impossible, but it’s something that well known and established writers also stuggle with.
I’ve seen some jaw-droppingly awful titles, often from very gifted writers. And I’m not just talking about my [...]

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HTML headings, accessibility, and SEO

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 29 January, 2009 to the comment subset

Roger Johansson has written a great refresher about the correct use of HTML headers, or elements such as h1, h2, etc.

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What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Categories

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 28 February, 2008 to the blogs subset

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 [...]

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SEO with Rand Fishkin

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 23 January, 2008 to the technology subset

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 [...]

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Links for 6 November 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 6 November, 2007 to the disassociated subset

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 [...]

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Priestly

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 17 October, 2007 to the blogs subset

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 [...]

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linkfame

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 26 July, 2007 to the blogs subset

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 [...]

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