The Death of SEO (Yeah Right) – The Monday March 12th Roundup

Lots of talk all over the net about the iPad3 this week, so I’ve refrained from posting about that. However, we do have non-destructive photoshop techniques, multi-channel funnels, and the final death of SEO (yeah right).

Create

• Create section goes to Smashing this week with two articles of theirs. First off, writing unit tests for WordPress,
• Next, and more up my alley: non-destructive Photoshop techniques. For the non-Photoshop geeks out there, these are tricks for creating effects without overwriting pixels.

Attract

• Google is making one of those changes that makes me go a big sad face. They’re defaulting https search across all country specific search. *sigh* My glorious keywords…
• Pintrest is all the rage these days, so I figured I should put at least one Pinterest post on here right now. 8 Practices for Food Brands on Pinterest.

Analyze

• Google has updated multi-channel funnels, and discusses these changes in Better insights with Multi-Channel Funnels.
• Avinash is, of course, back. This time he’s talking about big data. Best part of the article? “So what is big data really? No one quite knows.”

Optimize

• Usability Counts discusses a key flaw of Google+: the idea that users are “using it incorrectly”. It’s a short article but it sums up an important point: when you claim your users are “using it wrong” you’ve failed.
• Much like the OAMM, US Matters has a post on assessing Information Architecture Maturity.

For more industry news, check out our past Monday Roundups.