Guides, Guides, Guides – The Monday March 26th Roundup
Heavy week this week, with guides to HTML5, responsive design, beating panda, designing newsletters for mobile devices, optimizing conversion funnels, and persuading visitors. Yes, this is one guide heavy roundup.
Linkbuildr reports that negative SEO is on the rise. The best is yet to come, however, when they tell the results of their negative SEO test on a friends site. (with friends like Ryan, who needs enemies?)
Finally, BPWrap has a guide to “beating panda”. Ok, no it’s not beating it, most of it is, in fact, just talk about diversifying your traffic profile so that you don’t get hurt as badly when something goes wrong.
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Now the FTC is calling for increased ‘Do-Not-Track’ rules. I think this is starting to get a little ridiculous, though for the right reasons. How about we separate uses like javascript analytics apps from the scarier big data apps and let them go their merry way in peace?
Some have compared him to the Dalai Lama, others to Kublai Kahn. When he isn't teaching third world children how to purify water with nothing more than a plastic bottle and a garden hose, he is creating mad waves for surfers off the west coast with little more than a paddle. Some say there is a boat involved, others that he walks on water.
Little is known about his background. he appeared from nowhere 15 years ago and claims heritage from a land with neither want not need. He makes little comment, stating only that it was a pretty cool place.
Fire does not burn him, cold does not hurt him. Words could... but they don't. When he passes, pedals fall off branches. When he speaks, hair tugs at skin, pulling just slightly in his direction.
He does not sleep but he does dream. He has muscled his way into the lives of the famous and whispered his way into their hearts. And in the wee hours he plays oboe softly, as if to sooth the night to sleep.