Rebecca Gill

One of my all-time favorite tv shows is The Twilight Zone. I particularly like Rod Serling’s memorable opening narration: “There is a sixth dimension, beyond that which is known to newbies. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground b... (more)

Today I am meeting with a client to review the design and build of his new website.  Quite frankly I’m not looking forward to this meeting.  I am the barrier of bad news. When I originally accepted this project, I could see Google had indexed about 1,000 pages within his domain.... (more)

At last week’s PubCon conference in Las Vegas, Matt Cutts gave a presentation on Google and recent Google advancements.  This is a good read for website developers, in-house webmasters, and SEO consultants.  From Social Search to Pagetest to Google Web Toolkit, Matt gives a numbe... (more)

We are all familiar with the popularity contests of high school.  The idea of becoming homecoming queen or the student council president scared me as a teen, as neither were my thing.  I was more quiet and into other pursuits.  What is funny is now, some twenty years later, I fin... (more)

Today I ordered Web Analytics 2.0, which is the second book by Avinash Kaushik, the best selling author of Web Analytics: An Hour A Day.  As an avid website designer, SEO nut, social media fan, and overall Internet marketing addict, I can’t wait for delivery of my new purchase. ... (more)

I have always been a fan of WordPress.  Okay, let me rephrase that.  Since I discovered WordPress, I have always been a great fan.  Similar to other people, I was hesitant at first.  I thought it was simply a blogging application with limited capabilities.  I equated it to Google... (more)

This week Twitter and Linkedin united to share status updates across their mass social media networks.  I was thrilled, as I love both communities.   As soon as the functionality was released, I was on my Linkedin profile attempting to unite the two applications.  And for a momen... (more)

Last week Google officially announced their newly formed partnership with Twitter.  The officially statement indicates this partnership will allow social media updates on Twitter to appear in Google’s search results.  Google also demonstrated their new Social Search feature at th... (more)

Last week Google’s Internet marketing Guru matt Cutts posted a new video in their Webmaster Central Channel on YouTube.  I love these videos because they are short and to the post and without any pitch or longwinded verbiage cluttering the real message.   The video that caught m... (more)

Much to the surprise of many Internet marketing consultants, Google recently removed PageRank information from their Webmaster Tools.  In a response to a posting on Google’s Webmaster Central forum, Susan Moskwa stated “We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’... (more)

If you’ve ever used WordPress, you know the mass of WordPress’ functionality resides in the plugins.  Any high quality theme, blog, or website is loaded up with plugins.  The problem is not the ability to locate plugins, but the plugin’s actual ability to work without the need fo... (more)

Social media is not for everyone and the events of the last few days are a classic example of why this statement is true. Over the weekend a poll was released on Facebook that questioned the public’s desire to have someone kill President Obama. Yes, as amazing as it is, this stor... (more)

Google, and in particular Internet guru Matt Cutts, formally end SEO consultant chatter and announce Google’s policy of keyword utilization by posting a video on Google’s Webmaster Blog. In the very direct posting, Matt said Google no longer uses meta based keywords for primary o... (more)

I was sitting by my computer when the phone rang. My sister was calling my office in the middle of a workday, which was very odd. Did you hear was all I remember her saying and then silence – utter silence. I had not heard about the 9/11 attacks and quite frankly I almost did not... (more)

I am a born and raised “Michigander”. I am also, an Internet marketing consultant. This summer my two loves united as the State of Michigan embraced social media and pursued vacationers through hardcore social media and online advertising. I am not only a Michigan girl; I was ra... (more)

Blogger is a Google application that is used by millions of people each month to produce and host personal and business-related blogs. Last month the application turned ten years old, which is rather old for Web2.0 applications. My first blog was hosted on Blogger and remnants of... (more)

It seems like just a few years ago it took Google forever to index a new URL and website. Well maybe not, but for anyone working on Internet marketing it felt like it took Google forever to index a new URL. Things have changed and Google is different these days. Remember the Six ... (more)

Ping list? What is a ping list and why do I need it? Website traffic is the answer! A ping list is a list of websites that will be notified automatically each time your website posts a new blog entry. It is simple, effortless, and a critical aspect to obtaining website visitors.... (more)

Search volume inched up from June to July, but this change didn’t benefit everyone. Both Yahoo and Bing lost paid referral traffic in July, while Google rose slightly. After all the fanfare and money Microsoft threw on Bing’s arrival, the search engine gossip and hall chatter o... (more)

Seriously? Yes there is a disorder called Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) that now has an official recovery program available from a company called reSTART. The company’s website lists nine signs of Internet addiction and offers a twelve step program for recovery. Located in W... (more)