The TMO Blog

90% Of Google Notifications Are Not About Links

, ,
Many webmasters believed that the 700,000 notifications Google sent out in the first two months of this year were related to link notifications. Not true, says Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts. According to Cutts, 90% of the messages…

Great Resources: Responsive Design Frameworks

,
Creating a responsive website design from the ground up can be exhausting and costly. Thankfully, for those of us without the time or money to completely build a brand new site, there are lots of frameworks or boilerplates you can use. Chris…

How You Can Get Free AdWords Credits

, , ,
Google is offering up to two months of free advertising, or up to a $250 total value, for signing up for AdWords Express before December 16th. Most likely, you've received emails, possibly many, informing you of the promotion but it might be…

Bing Publishes First Set of Webmaster Guidelines

, ,
Bing published their first set of webmaster guidelines in the Help section of Bing's Webmaster Tools to offer guidance on the best SEO practices for their search engine. While not nearly as detailed as Google's webmaster guidelines, hat is…

How to Make Retina Graphics

,
Retina capable displays don't seem to be going anywhere, and every new analysis of mobile browsing shows that Apple dominates the mobile browsing market. Add to that the number of people using new MacBook Pros, and you have a fairly large audience…

Cyber Monday Ruined By AdWords Bug

, , ,
For anyone using online advertising, the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend is a great opportunity to see a spike in your ads' views. Search Engine Roundtable reports, however, that a "technical issue" on some AdWords accounts caused ads not…

2012 Wrap-Up: The Big Shifts in Google SEO

, ,
Well, it's the time of year for wrap-up lists, yet again. For most industries, there aren't too many big changes throughout a year. When discussing everything that happened in SEO however, there is certainly a lot to cover. Tom Schmitz over…

Who Are Web Designers? [Infographic]

, ,
The UK web hosting company Heart Internet wanted to find out who web designers are and what their opinions are on their profession. They asked 500 designers and while that is far from being representative of the entire industry, the results…

Answering “Why?” – The Most Important Step in Design

,
In the design community, every step of the creation process becomes a tale we tell each other to establish our own know-how, as well as trading insight and tips. What we don't seem to discuss is the "why" side of things. We share what happened…