A little holiday humor seemed to be in order as I am getting ready to do holiday stuff and not search stuff..I found this article on “How to Design a “Terrible” Website” that just cracked me up. These are the best practices for low-converting, visitor-scaring websites.
And because I’m from northern Minnesota and I love the Mackenzie’s – here’s the 12 days of Christmas, Bob & Doug Style.
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
I noticed today that Tripadvisor.com has redesigned most of their site - a few sections arent done and it appears they will be rolling the whole site out gradually. Interface is more user-friendly and it seems they have changed a few things - “Other Lodging” is now “Specialty lodging” - which is basically semantics if you ask me, same dang thing. I do like the new look a bit better - their old homepage was so crammed with stuff it was hard to know what to do with it. 2 things annoy me about tripadivsor.com:
I’m going to do a more detailed write-up of the changes over at the Blizz Blog - complete w/ screenshots, etc. so check over there tomorrow (12/18) afternoon for more details.
We just got back from playing ”SearchSpam,” a role-playing game that is a reinvention of the Werewolf game with seekers,villagers and of course werewolves. SEOMoz setup and sponsored the event and it was a TON of fun and I met some great people that I’ve corresponded with, or just read online. Had a great conversation with Todd Mintz and Bill Hartzer - also finally met Dave Davis - I read his stuff at RedFlyMarketing a lot.
The game was fun and the SEOMoz team is so energetic and open - I really had a good time and they really are a model agency - what a great way to run a business and market yourselves as leaders in the space. I lost constantly - but I didnt really care - I had a great time. Thanks for putting it together Mozzers and well done
I’ve said it before - somewhere - and I’ll say it again - the blogging community rocks. Joe Morin and the great team and WebmasterWorld arranged a “Blogger’s Night Out” here at Pubcon and scored some free show tickets for us bloggerati - the only payment needed was a review of the show on our blogs - simple enough and I’d have blogged about it even if I paid for the ticket.
First things first - KUDOS to the Treasure Island crew. The letter that was with my ticket to Cirque Du Soleil’s Mystere said to be sure to tell you that TI provided the tickets at no cost and also invited us to attend and enjoy the show - making the blog post wasnt necessary. Well - I’m going to post anyway -the show was freaking amazing.
This was my first Vegas show - and simply walking into the theatre was awe inspiring. The show was freaking amazing - great acrobats, gymnasts, costumes, music, lighting - it was a complete package - the only thing I didnt truly follow was the plot….. I’m tentatively thinking the story was the dreams of a child, but that is a little fuzzy - but WHO CARES - the show is amazing and I told Mary Iwould have gladly paid $100 a ticket to see it. We had great seats and an amazing time - the show is totally worth the money. Todd (Mr. SEO Mom) is coming out to vegas for the weekend - I’m going to talk him into seeing another Cirque du Soleil show with me when he gets here - maybe Ka or Zumanity…..
So - great show, HIGHLY recommended -and kudos to TI for “getting it” and understanding that if you give something away - the return is ten-fold…a great tactic for any hospitality market!
photo courtesly Treasure Island website
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