Welcome back!

There are some great topics we’ve covered and many of the new subscribers haven’t read them yet. So, I’m going to give you an overview of the first week of blogging on Refuge Design’s blog.

Beware of Reciprocal Linking but do it!

This was our very first post. It covered Reciprocal Linking as an Internet Marketing tactic but also gave some advice if you want to obey the Search Engine Guidelines. 

Jerry Yang CEO steps down at Yahoo

We covered the ‘then’ hot topic of Jerry Yang stepping down from CEO at Yahoo!

Google’s SEO Guide with a review and notes

Google came out with an SEO Guide to on-page optimization. Although it’s a good guide, it contradicts many things Google has said in the past.

Google Analytics Sucks

Millions of webmasters use Google Analytics but they don’t realize the information isn’t true. It’s on a flawed system, we cover ‘why’ it sucks, with logic and details.

One Link that takes 6 months to see

Email marketing just only begins after you hit the send button. Only 1/3 of your readers open you email within 2 hours, the rest of the 2/3’s take 6 months to a year to open that one email of yours.

Jim Boykin is ‘White Hat’ now, of WeBuildPages

A known public black hat, changes his stance on Paid Links. He will not reform his company’s ways to obey all of the Search Engine guidelines.

Google SearchWiki’s hiccup; came, died, and resurrected

This new default feature, came within a blink of an eye, and left as fast, only to come back again. Weird but true. We review and experiment with this new feature as Google default feature.

Summary: That’s the first week. We will do this more often and have monthly recaps as well. I hope you enjoyed it.