Does blogging make you a better SEO?

December 22nd, 2008 Lyndsay Walker 1 comment

It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that I’m not much of a writer, given the frequency of updates to this blog. In fact, I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a numbers girl. Absolutely left-brained.  Writing is not my strongest suit.

Does that mean I’m not as good at search engine optimization?  Not at all.  For all the time I could spend writing blog posts, I instead spend time reading up other people’s content, learning and absorbing as much as I can. I just don’t feel the need to repeat what’s already being said elsewhere.

Christmas 2008 won't be a quiet one

December 22nd, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

Less than four weeks ago, my American friends celebrated Thanksgiving.  I sat at work thinking it would be a very quiet day on Twitter, but in reality it may have been one of the busiest.

I couldn’t believe how many people were actively tweeting about their grand Thanksgiving meals, their delicious Thanksgiving spirits, and the amusing tweets that followed.  It was highly entertaining for me, stuck at work drooling over pictures of turkey, mashed potatoes… yummmmm…

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Corporate Culture – Is it important?

November 23rd, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

I’ve worked in a wide variety of industries since getting my first job as a dishwasher in a Niagara winery at 15. I’ve seen great management, poor management. Companies of 10,000+ employees, companies of 4-5 employees.

Moving into the new millennium, the buzz words “corporate culture” became more prominent. Now, maybe it just seems that way to me as I finished up with my post-secondary education in 2003, but as I looked at various companies, many seemed to tout their fantastic corporate culture.

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PubCon Las Vegas 2008 – Come and Gone

November 18th, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

Another fabulous week in fabulous Las Vegas.

Once again, I spoke on the “SEO Design and Organic Structure” panel with Mark Jackson, Alan K’Necht and Todd Friesen keeping us all in line as moderator. This year, Aaron Wall joined us on our panel. The session looked at things at a pretty high level, but I think we were able to give some valuable tips. The session room was full, and I saw more people coming in than going out. Always a good sign!

I’ll post my presentation and more details about it shortly.

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SEO Myths with WestJet’s Lyndsay Walker – 5 Question Interview

June 3rd, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

A couple of weeks ago, I was featured on the digital marketing blog OneDegree.com. I discussed SEO Don’ts Myths and Scams, the panel I will be speaking on at Search Engine Strategies Toronto on June 17-18. Hope to see you there – here is the interview.

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Robots.txt – Disallow a directory, but allow select files?

May 22nd, 2008 Lyndsay Walker 2 comments

In the past, I haven’t done anything overly complicated with robots.txt, and I have a situation I need a little help with.

I have a directory I want to disallow, with the exception of a select few files in that directory. Is there a way I can say “disallow all but “?

Your help is appreciated!

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Wow DHL how NOT to make a good first impression!

May 20th, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

On the weekend, I placed an order from Hershey’s for our wedding. I’m certainly not in a rush for is as the wedding is still 81 days away. Anyhow, to my surprise, DHL’s tracking said that it’s out for delivery today.

When I got home, I see that the status has changed to “delivery attempted; recipient not at home”. Hmm, weird, seeing as how my fiance works from our apartment. He said there were no calls from anyone other than his work stuff. Okay, fine, maybe something’s up with the buzzer (which I doubt since we had pizza delivered last night and it was fine then).

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StoryBids.com – Product Placement Advertising

May 12th, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

I would like to congratulation my friends Joseph Morin and Juan Prado on the launch of their product placement advertising site, storybids.com.

Story Bids is a place where advertisers can bid on content submitted by media creators for top product placement. The site is easy on the eyes and very user-friendly.

Whether you’re looking for product placement advertising or looking to sell your best creative ideas, take a look at StoryBids.com to make it work for you.

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Twitter – @lyndseo

April 30th, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

I signed up for Twitter a few weeks ago, but I’ve really been getting into it these past few days. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to get updates on my phone, but I’m a big fan of TwitterFox.

If you’d like to follow me, I’m @lyndseo.

See ya around tweets!

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Update to Airport Post – YYT

April 29th, 2008 Lyndsay Walker No comments

Thanks to @Bloggeries for letting me know that there actually IS an airport out there that offers free WiFi!

Of course, you’d have to go to St. John’s, Newfoundland to get it. And hey if you’re going to go to St. John’s International Airport, you might as well fly WestJet! :)

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