Author: Vision Nest Media

How Google's Search Works

Google posted an interactive visualization, dare I say infographics, on how its search works: How Search Works  I remember when I learned this very same topic 6 years ago in Library school. It was fascinating, but compared to that this page didn’t give me new information. What it did provide was nice visuals, that makes it more digestible for the...

WordPress Plugins for SEO: Better WordPress Minify, Schema Creator, Better Internal Link Search, Allow HTML in Category Descriptions

Search Engine Journal pulled together a basic SEO article for WordPress sites. I was familiar with most of what they recommended, but still found four tools that were new to me: Better WordPress Minify: Allows you to minify your CSS and JS files for faster page loading for visitors. Schema Creator by Raven: Provides an easy to use form to embed properly...

Should you do Social Media if you have a local business?

Chris Silver Smith‘s comprehensive column on Is Social Media Worthwhile For Local Businesses? at Search Engine Land runs down the dis/advantages on why you should (not) get involved in social media if you have a local shop or business. Here is a brief summary of his article: Pros Facebook and Google is where the people (potential customers) are. Google refers (potential) customers to...

Tip of the week #3: How to escape double quotes in a Google Spreadsheet?

If you are using functions in Google Spreadsheet, you might had the same issue that I did: trying to escape a double-quote. Meaning that you wanted to end result of the cell where yuo used the function to have double-quotes at specific points. For example, in one column I have URLs and in another titles of the pages and I...

91% says: “public libraries are important"

I enjoy and look out for signs of my worlds colliding; e.g. This morning I first read on an SEO site (Search Engine Land) about the new PEW report on Library Services in the Digital Age. The full report and the sumary is available here: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2013/01/22/Library-services/ Here is a key discrepancy Fully 91% of Americans ages 16 and older say public libraries...

15 Tips on increasing interaction on your Facebook page

LinchpinSEO created an infographic, see below, based on Buddy Media’s research on what generates more interaction on Facebook.  I don’t think that putting this information into a large visual representation added any value to it, so I am sharing its numbers in plain text, sorted by descending order of effect. The numbers refer to the increase in interaction compared to...

drupal4lib conference within the code4lib conference

During the code4lib conference in February 11-14 in Chicago there will be a drupal4lib conference too. Let me break down that sentence for you. code4lib isn’t entirely about code or libraries. It is a volunteer-driven collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists and instigators from around the world, who largely work for and with libraries, archives and museums on...