What are you thinking? Did you make a New Year’s Resolution for your search engine optimization (SEO) activities? If so, why? We all know that the chances of keeping a resolution are slim. Instead, why not make SEO goals for the year? By setting goals, you can plan specific activities and timelines to actually make [.]. MORE >>

The young people in your company are ready to lead. Here's how to prepare them for the responsibility. “We expect to lead and be led. In the absence of orders I will take charge, lead my teammates, and accomplish the mission. lead by example in all situations.” At the time, I thought this was a lot of responsibility for a new guy. MORE >>

Tweet Buffalo, In 2006 I moved back to Buffalo after living across the US in Austin, Denver, Houston, Manchester, Boston and more. was running a 40-client SEO/SEM firm and writing for a relatively unknown publication called TechCrunch. Moving home I made three commitments to myself: This was it, I’m home for good. It’s the now. Ignite! MORE >>

When it comes to sourcing the right interview candidates, I've never been keen to use recruiters. But I recently changed my mind. My company, Metal Mafia, has an excellent candidate screening process, a super training program, and a very successful team of employees to show for it. They're also too expensive for my small budget. MORE >>

We’ve previously written about our  sharded master-master pair database architecture  and how that and the Etsy ORM allows us to  perform schema changes while keeping the site up. That we can do this at all is really awesome but to actually do this is still hard, risky and time-consuming. Then we switch sides and do it again. Ch-ch-changes. MORE >>