Every graphic designer who earns part of their living designing websites should be required to read at least chapter 14 of Dave Taylor’s book Growing Your Business with Google.

Tip: Copywriters who want to learn to craft search engine-friendly copy should read this book too.

Craig’s note: That’s my own copy shown at right. I read it on vacation in early 2006 while we were planning our own CreativeIQ blog. I thought I knew a fair bit about web design. The dozens of post-it notes and highlighted sections are a testimony to how much I was missing about designing sites that work well with search engines.

This week we reviewed (and highly recommended) the book Growing Your Business with Google by author Dave Taylor. If you like to watch video instead of read, we’ve added a link below to Dave’s presentation on business blogging at a recent summit in Florida

Who is viewing your website? How do they find it? And what do they look at while they are there? Those are three important questions every creative team should know. Not only for their own website, but for their clients as well. Google Analytics is a great tool for uncovering the answers to those questions. […]

About a year ago Seth Godin published Who’s There? — a free ebook about the evolving art of marketing with blogs. (This was a follow-up to his previous ebook Knock Knock which discussed how to make websites do their job better.)

This 45-page PDF is a quick read:

Seth Godin’s Who’s There (PDF)

Seth’s book provides a good introduction into the world of using blogging as an effective marketing tool.

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Ever wondered how you might use a blog for your studio? You can see how hundreds of other designers answered that same question at Designers Who Blog.

This site (a blog itself) provides a constantly growing list of over 400 blogging designers. Also included are illustrators, photographers, and professionals in advertising and marketing, etc.

Providing computer support for a busy team of graphic designers, account managers, and other creative pros is a challenging job. It demands an odd combination of long-term planning and short-term crisis response. A new book published by O’Reilly does a good job addressing the real-world, interruption-based environment most system administrators find themselves working in: Time […]

Seth Godin has published a quick list of ideas on how to generate blog readership. Seth’s Blog: How to get traffic for your blog The ideas come rapidly and sometimes appear to be contradictory. But it is a great idea list — and certainly worth a quick read for people interested in generating more traffic […]

Seth Godin has posted some eye tracking test results for Squido — a web service he helped found that allows individuals create and maintain specials “lens” that focus on particular content. You can view the raw unedited results in this YouTube video, or jump over to Seth’s full blog entry “What I learned from eye […]