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Giving Your Visitors What They Want
[2010-09-01] In my last post, I talked about training your text to "engage", "inform", "speak" (call to action), and "convert". The first step is to make sure the content doesn't overstay it's welcome.
Adding Strong Link Building To Your Site
[2010-08-19] Link building has become a hot topic of late in the search marketing arena. While it has been around for years, sometimes it can be done very poorly or overlooked altogether in an SEM strategy - don't let this happen for your website.
Preventing And Controlling Content To Increase SEO
[2010-08-03] Duplicate content can still be tough to deal with when you're trying to optimize a website. Search engines may be reading several pages with substantially similar content, or "printer friendly" pages that generally contain the most important information on a page.
Implementing The Correct Redirect To Retain Your Site Ranking
[2010-07-22] Redirects can be used for a variety of reasons, but it's important to consider which type of redirect works best from an SEO point of view. Implementing the wrong type of redirect can have a negative impact on your rankings and prevent old pages from passing on their full link value.
Improving Your Site To Develop Better Content
[2010-07-01] If George Lucas taught us anything with his re-tinkering of the original Star Wars trilogy it's that there is no such thing as "perfect." When it comes to your website's content, the same holds true. But in the case of your website, the tinkering should improve upon the original rather than create a bastardize version of an mildly flawed classic.
Increasing Your Site Traffic Without Breaking Your Budget
[2010-06-16] It is no longer important that you have a large budget, are tech savvy, or have been in business for long: if you know what to do, there are many ways to promote yourself online in ways that are free or so inexpensive that they cash-flow; here are ten of them:
Debugging Issues On A WordPress Upgrade
[2010-06-03] This week I upgraded a new client's WordPress blog from version 2.6 to 2.9.2. All went just dandy. Then today he emailed me to say that he'd noticed his post excerpts were not appearing where they were supposed to, in single post pages.
How To Check Your Whois Domain Data
[2010-05-28] This is only one SEO tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific, they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point.
Building A Better User Experience With Real-Time Access Data
[2010-05-20] It's more than a year since my original post about DemandBase. At the time, they had just extended their product beyond basic IP-address-based Web visitor identification to provide company details and contact names. Last week they announced their next leap forward, an API to return detailed company information quickly enough to use it to tailor visitor treatments. Specifically, ABR returns data within 10 milliseconds of the initial page request, in time to customize even the first page served. According to DemandBase, this compares with one to two seconds for conventional IP address look-ups.
How To Increase Your Website's Loading Speed
[2010-05-03] There are some major benefits to increasing the speed of your website:
Testing Your Website's Page Loading Speed
[2010-04-15] The Google Webmaster blog has officially stated that page load time is now a factor in Google's ranking algorithm. Even though they state that page load time only affects less than 1% of queries, this is still 1% of 100+ billion searches a month. Below are a few tools to help you test your site's page load time more effectively.
How To Keep Your Momentum While Link Building
[2010-03-24] Most SEOs have a love/hate relationship with links. We love a good link but we hate what it takes to get them. At best, link building is time consuming and tedious. At worst it's the thing drives good SEOs to the dark side of black hat magic. It's the one thing that most SEOs don't to do and very few actually can do well. Show me a link builder that advertises they can get 100 PR4+ one-way links and I'll show you 100 barely readable blog posts on 100 barely read blogs.
How To Improve Your AdWord Quality Score
[2010-03-04] Do you need to improve your AdWords Quality Score? Do you want to understand what Google wants from you as an advertiser in exchange for a decent Quality Score and lower click prices? Today I will teach you the ins and outs of the algorithm and show you how you can tweak your account and site to influence each Quality Score factor.
Getting Real Time Results On Your Site
[2010-02-18] Back in December 2009, Google began showing the integration of the real-time web in the Google organic search results. Google told us that their goal is to strive to bring us "the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices" we "use to access it." They added real-time into the search results like this:
Canonical Tag Can Show You Which Pages Belong In Search Engines
[2010-01-28] The canonical tag (or canonical link) element can go a long way in helping Google understand which pages of your site belong in the search engine results. Thanks to a recent Google update, this tag can also help you specify which site is the preferred source for information which may need to be duplicated in other places.
AdClicks And Web Analytics Will Always Yield Different Results
[2010-01-07] Have you also experienced this? The numbers your traffic agency (marketer) reports to and charges you differ immensely from those which you yourself have measured on your website? Doubts arise concerning your traffic agency and your own web analytics tool.
The Core Values Of Properly Optimized Websites
[2009-12-11] It is very difficult to oversimplify the value proposition of Search Engine Optimization, since it is based on the following 2 premises: 1. People use search engines to find things. 2. If people can't find you in the search results, you don't have a shot at their business.
Not Letting Your Fears Of SEO Kill Your Budget
[2009-11-23] Many small businesses are at a financial disadvantage when it comes to marketing their website. Too often they don't have the funds, time, or resources needed to engage in as much marketing as they would like. Unlike larger businesses with deep pockets, small business often have to rely on do-it-yourself strategies built upon free advice gathered from blogs, forums, and social networking sites.
Are You Limiting Your Site Development By Using Free Hosting?
[2009-11-13] There are many companies those permit to host your website in their server and also give you a sub domain name. Many people don't want to waste money for hosting the website and prefer to get the free services for hosting their websites. A few people get satisfaction after hosting their websites in the free services.
Becoming More Creative With Your SEO
[2009-11-04] Search engine marketing is increasingly becoming popular with people from all walks of life and businesses of all hues adopting the web in a big way. The global recesssion has clearly thrust SEM into the spotlight as a great way to drive targeted traffic that is measurable and also making a huge difference to the bottomline of any company, the $ generated in revenue.
Developing Your Website For The Lowest Common Denominator
[2009-10-29] Do you ever think that SEO is "obvious"? "Common knowledge"? "Pretty easy, really"? In this video, "Scott" from Google asked 50 people on the street if they knew what a browser was. Watch this:
How To Generate Revenue From Adsense
[2009-10-13] Can you make money building sites primarily designed to create income through Google Adsense? The answer is yes. As always, the definition of "making money" is different for different people, since the money you make on a daily basis may not exceed the value of a few hours' work at the burger joint on the corner.
Why Most Developers Will Not Use Office 2010
[2009-09-30] I really like Office 10. Looks great, doesn't it? Lots of new features. And it even works well on the web. But it is doomed to be kept out of my toolbag.
Google Faces An Up Hill Battle With A Chrome Plug-in For IE
[2009-09-23] I just read that Google is set to release and open source an Internet Explorer (IE) plug-in that allows IE to use Google Chrome's HTML rendering and JavaScript engine. Ars Technica writes:
Permalink Structures and How to Choose
[2009-09-17] For this post we're going to be taking look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are a lot of different options, and there isn't a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.
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