While I’ve been working from my home for quite a few years now and don’t have the “Office Space” experience anymore, I still run into quite a few web designers. While I took design in college, I consider myself more of a word man. As such, I’ve been able to pinpoint 10 distinct types of web designers you have run into. Whether you’ve hired one of these people before or worked with them, if you’ve spent any amount of time around web design geeks, you’ve most likely run into one or more of these types. Continue Reading

As you know, content is king online. Good content trumps bad content. (Unique content trumps spun content that is 34.5% unique.) Niche content usually trumps generalized content. (How many more top 10 ways to blog posts can the Internet stand before it bursts?) You get the idea – content is important. Continue Reading

Sticky Content

In the beginning, it was easy to get eyeballs on the Internet. (Anyone remember Justin at Links.net?) Almost anything you threw up would get a good portion of the Internet traffic. Then the number of websites started to ramp up as the number of surfers started to increase. Then there was the bubble. Then web 2.0. And now, approaching 2k10? Content is still king, BUT you have to do something to differentiate yourself. Continue Reading

Lawful Evil

Are you tired of there just being three SEO hats and having to choose white, black or grey? (Although there was a big brua-haha earlier this year about Blue Hats or Green Hats or something…)

Well, here at Webmaster Chronic, since I’m boss (as in leader not the 80s boss) I’m going to do away with Black Hat and White Hat and Grey Hat and even Green Hat and Blue Hat SEO.  To maybe make it a little fun, I’m doing to start mark all my posts here with D&D alignments. Continue Reading

You may have heard hints of this tidbit here and there on the intrawebs, but I’m going to try to break it down for you. Online, there are two types of people trying to make money (well, more than that but for this post only two) – those that come up with new ideas (very few) and the hordes who copy them and their techniques into oblivion. When you add that to the fact that the Internet is still changing so rapidly, it can become rather difficult to make money online. It’s becoming harder and harder in fact as ‘the horde’ increases. Continue Reading

Yet another webmaster blog … yet somehow a little different.