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Adding Basic Optimization To Your Site Design
[2009-06-25] There are multiple places online to get tips for SEO. In fact, some sites pride themselves in giving up to 55 different tips on aspects of search engine optimization. If you're new to the game, or just a small business looking to build SEO into your website, these tips can be overwhelming and jargon heavy. Here are a few basic optimization tips for the casual web designer.
How To Not Make Duplicate Content In Your WordPress Blog
[2009-06-04] The best way to ensure a web page ranks well in Google keyword searches is to make sure it is the only one on the web that includes the content on the page. In this way you avoid several web pages all having a somewhat equal possibility of being judged relevant for the particular keyword search. This increases the chance that this unique page will outrank other quite independent web pages that cover the same topic. That's the theory and it seems to work out well in practice.
The Importance Of The Whole Website For Link Building
[2009-05-07] In my last post, Holistic Link Building 101, the beginning of a series of post was embarked upon and the topic is very subjective. When it comes to building a website for SEO success, however, link building or development is an extremely important part of an effective online marketing strategy.
Merging VOC Data With Site Data
[2009-04-16] In the first post on this topic, I promised to walk though the basic steps involved in integrating VOC data into your web analytics solution. I'm focusing on QuestionPro - a very inexpensive survey solution as an example case and showing how it can be effectively tied into Omniture. In this post, I'll discuss the basics of data integration - capturing the survey respondent's identity.
Developing Websites In A Niche
[2009-03-26] I'm in the process of developing websites in a couple of different niches and going through the process of building sites from scratch has been instructional, especially since the process has changed with the availability of new technologies, here're a couple of steps to help accelerate your site development.
Generate More Traffic With a 404 Error Page
[2009-03-09] SEO campaign strategy can be an exciting stage in the website building process. As a lot of websites are looking to optimize their page, however, finding a creative edge is becoming more and more of a challenge.
Determine Your Site's Success Ratio With Google Analytics
[2009-02-18] Now the time has gone when the number of "hits" a page used to get was enough to determine its success ratio… The Official Google Blog has come up with some simple, yet extremely effective tips to determine the success if your website.
Developer Tools To Help Create High Quality Websites
[2009-01-29] In the first part of the checklist, we looked at creating high quality websites from a client perspective and the tools that helps us do that. In this part we look at the (free) tools that will help us build high quality on the server side of the website.
Tracking Various Development Stages In Google Analytics
[2009-01-10] Google Analytics filters allow you manage and segment your incoming data giving you increased insight for your website. Google Analytics filters can be created for internal traffic, capturing sub domains, rewriting URLs within your reports, gaining a better understanding of referring keywords and even the exact page on Google where your traffic came from.
Building Your Site For Success in Your Local Area
[2008-12-11] Some businesses rely on telephone leads, either as the main source of revenue or as an important means of acquiring customers. This includes anyone from pizza and other delivery restaurants to tradesmen like home inspectors or home improvement contractors. This includes most service sectors, too. Are there ways to get a leg up on the competition?
Converting Your Site For Most Languages
[2008-11-13] For the first time in history, humans can interact and share information instantly from one side of the globe to the other, bringing ideas, cultures and knowledge to people all over the earth literally at the press of a button.
Full Q and A Text from the 3rd Webmaster Chat Event
[2008-10-23] 3rd Webmaster Chat Event has got over! As always, huge number of webmasters were there to clear all the doubts and queries! The Googlers who were on-staff in the event were:
Making Your Own Site Search Better
[2008-10-02] Back in August of this year, while at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, I sat in a session where one of the speakers talked about site search. He said something that I fundamentally disagree with but it got me thinking about why you should or should not implement a search feature on your own site.
Best Web Marketing Checklist for Architectural Issues
[2008-09-11] What this is about: This list covers several elements regarding the architectural aspects of a website that focus on building a more search engine friendly site overall.
Test Your Software With a Community of Professionals
[2008-08-21] It was intrigued when a press release titled "over 8500 testers in more than 130 countries" was emailed to us.
Open Source World Conference October 2008
[2008-07-31] The Open Source World Conference, taking place in Malaga (Spain), from October 20 to 22, is one of the most important FLOSS event in Europe.
Reddit Needs Your Open Source Skills
[2008-06-19] Reddit has opened up its code base to the public at large in an effort to help take on other social networking systems.
The Photoshop Anthology: Free Download
[2008-05-15] If you've ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a site recently, you need download this book.
Piwik - A Developer Friendly Tool
[2008-04-03] A latest Open Source web analytics Software released under GPL license, Piwik can be called a neat and developer friendly tool. Though similar in functionality to Google Analytics, Piwik has many features. It is the new version of phpMyVisites and is supported by OpenAds.
Google Calendar Sync & API for Contacts
[2008-03-06] Two related announcements today regarding Google's Gmail/Apps offering.
Using Web Standards to Develop for Mobile Devices (Not Just the iPhone)
[2008-01-24] I've been an avid Mac user for many years, since about 1996, and actually that's when I started working on the web.
Choosing the Right URL Structure
[2007-12-20] I've been working on the URL structure on the upcoming version of BlogEngine.NET.
Website Architecture's Backwards
[2007-11-21] Any application ever build have an architect designing it. That architect could be a software architect, lead developer or just a regular code monkey and probably all of them at some point or the other.
Getting All the Link Labels From a String in ColdFusion
[2007-11-08] A reader asked me how they could use regex to find all the link labels in a string.
Metadata Properties for CFFEED
[2007-08-23] When creating RSS feeds with the CFFEED tag, you can specify metadata properties for the feed that help describe the feed in general. The docs though aren't very clear on what metadata properties you can provide.
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