Do Search Engines Kill Creativity?

By Becki Saltzman | June 7, 2013

Feast on this you hungry robot: SEO, creativity, search engine optimization,…ape dog. I must admit that I am one of only three people in the world that is not a search engine optimization expert (SEO for those other two of us). Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration, but certainly we’re the only three that actually have a blog. The point is that I really don’t know how to do it.

This is what I sort of know. Wait, better still, here are the top 5 things that I know about SEO. There, that’s better.

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Safe Words That Bind

By Becki Saltzman | May 23, 2013

It’s amazing how we intensely we can hate certain words. Some of them, like goiter and panties, deserve that hatred because they brought it on themselves through the disgusting sounds they make. However, for some their meaning was given to them–like religion or bad grooming habits. It’s not their fault. What about those innocent words we hate intensely that stand cold, lonely and frightened by our hatred. What did moist ever do to you? Poor, old slacks just asked nicely to be ironed from time to time. What about the scary ones that we fear to type, let alone utter.

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