Andrew Cafourek | Blogging

Guest Post at SearchFuel.com: “How To Stop Making Visitors Hate Your Website”

By Andrew ⋅ October 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The agency I work for runs a blog dedicated to the world of search marketing over at SearchFuel.com and today, I’ve posted my first contribution to the subject matter. Well, since I’m no search expert, I instead posted on website usability, because ultimately the only reason people [...]

Welcome to WordPress 2.6

By Andrew ⋅ July 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Well, I am now running WordPress 2.6 and so far it is rather awesome. So I figured I would post the video from the WordPress Development Blog and the new features (in part because it is good information, and in part because I need to push that [...]

Why Southwest Airlines has a Better Blog Than Your Company and What to Do About It

By Andrew ⋅ March 19, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Corporations in the realm of social media have been met with both skepticism and open arms because their approaches have varied from press release posting boards (they called them blogs) to truly engaging community empowerment initiatives. One of the companies that I have come across that has [...]

Traffic Through Trackbacks

By Andrew ⋅ January 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

So when I first started this blog, it took me almost 3 months to figure out what exactly a trackback was. And now, oddly enough, I have been asked three or four times in the past couple weeks to explain the concept and each time I forget [...]

The Twitter Tuesday Tidal Wave

By Andrew ⋅ December 11, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

“Drop a pebble, make a wave“ That’s what happened when Jeremiah posted (and twittered) about Twitter and how it can be used. It has become known as Twitter Tuesday, and I doubt if there is a person left on the service that hasn’t made new connections because [...]

Finally a Federal Shield That Might Work

By Andrew ⋅ October 16, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Free Flow of Information Act, a journalist shield law that would protect professional journalists from prosecution should they refuse to reveal sources. Ars Technica has a good analysis of the Act and its implications for the blogging world: at first [...]