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Developing Your Site Design With Integrated SEO
[2009-06-29] SEO: time-intensive, ever changing, and highly misunderstood. Creating a website design that is appealing, while also search engine friendly, is one of the hardest parts about SEO web design. If you're a designer, are your designs really search friendly?
Upgrading WordPress To 2.8 Just Got Even Easier
[2009-06-15] A new version 2.8 of Wordpress was released this week and I've upgraded this blog to that latest version. 2.8 has some significant new features, enhancements and fixes. What better way to show you what some of them are - just get a load of the much-improved new widgets admin - than with this short WordPress video.
Researching And Implementing The Best Keywords For Your Site
[2009-05-29] When you own an online business one of the most important things you can do is get high rankings in the search engines. There are many ways of doing this. One of the most effective ways of getting your site noticed by the search engines is by using relative keywords.
Improving Search Engine Performance
[2009-05-11] Besides content optimization and making sure a site's news pages and digital assets can be found and indexed, attracting relevant inbound links is the next most important tactic for improving search engine performance of Public Relations related content.
How To Intergrate Behavioral Data with VOC
[2009-04-27] In my last post on this topic, I showed how to capture key response data directly into the web behavioral stream. For many integrations, this is really all that's necessary. However, a deeper level of integration can make it possible to use tools like Omniture for storing and reporting on all your survey data. In this post, I'll show how to capture the entire survey record in Omniture. For this short series, I'm focusing on QuestionPro - a very inexpensive survey solution as an example case and showing how it can be effectively tied into Omniture.
Cloud Computing Rests Solely On Users For Success
[2009-04-24] I said the same thing when we in the extreme hype & FUD stage of SOA. Now we have simply changed the marketing slides from SOA to Cloud Computing and the same pattern of insanity commences.
Factors That Weigh In Your Website Ranking
[2009-04-06] The other day I was thinking about what signals we consider when trying to understand search engines and how they rank pages. There have been more than a few folks that have taken a stab at the elusive ‘over 200' ranking factors the last few years (not to mention local rankings); why not give it a go? For me, it is likely a utopian fantasy, a journey into supposition, more than it is any real insight… but let's have a go at it anyway.
Reporting API For SiteCatalyst Released
[2009-03-23] At last year's Omniture Summit - yes the 2008 version - one of the most interesting announcements was the release of a Reporting API for SiteCatalyst. Like red wine, technology announcements generally require a certain amount of time to age into a respectable level of maturity and the Omniture Reporting API was no exception.
Understanding The Use Of Canonical Tags
[2009-03-02] Last week we learned of the magical new Link Element which was announced at SMX West which was purported to resolve a longstanding problem with duplicate content by pointing search engines to a single URL for pages which could have multiple paths to the same content.
Four Great CSS Books For Resource Knowledge
[2009-02-09] I have a lot of web design books - I mean a lot. I've been collecting them since I started Red Kite in 2005, and I thought this would be a great place to share which ones have been most useful to me as a designer and developer.
Areas To Focus on With SEO
[2009-01-19] There are so many SEO tasks demanding your attention. How do you prioritize them? Seems to be a common issue, as when we asked for questions a while back, we received this one:
Is 2009 The End of Free Open Source
[2009-01-05] Dave Rosenberg wrote an interesting post titled "Open source becomes paid software in 2009″. He writes:
Your Site's Quality Score
[2008-12-15] For AdWords advertisers, your quality score has a large impact on the success of your campaigns. One of the main contributors to this score is the quality of your landing pages which visitors land on after clicking on one of your ads.
Tips to Better Optimize Your Sites
[2008-12-01] Like search engine optimization (where you build a site or blog that the search engines like), there is now social media optimization. With SMO, your site (or blog) is designed to encourage social interaction and viral marketing behavior.
Saving Your Website After A Hack
[2008-11-10] So I was checking my affiliate networks the past few days and noticed that I was only making a couple dollars a day and I found this quite odd. I couldn't figure out why my commissions were all so low, so I decide to check Google analytics to see how much traffic one of my websites was getting.
How to Remove Google's Unsafe Display on Your Site
[2008-10-27] You may have seen "This site may harm your computer" in Google search results - but what does it mean? If you click the search result link you get another warning page instead of the website you were expecting. But if the web page was your grandmother's baking blog, you're still confused. Surely your grandmother hasn't been secretly honing her l33t computer hacking skills at night school. Google must have made a mistake and your grandmother's web page is just fine…
Mashup Camp Contest
[2008-10-13] Save the date for Mashup Camp... November 17-19, Mountainview / San Jose, CA at the Computer History Museum - the un-conference for the mashup developer community.
Adding a black or colored border to your Web page
[2008-09-15] I saw that on the anniversary of 9/11 you changed your Web site home page to have a thick black border and some commemorative words. Nice, low key, and still effective. How'd ya do it?
Proven Ways to Get Organic Search Visibility
[2008-08-25] Google has been quite open about what they regard as relevant in a website and what's needed to get good search engine visibility.
Projects That Would be Great for .NET Developers
[2008-08-11] A year ago, I wrote a post about three projects that I thought would be useful for .NET developers but didn't exist at the time. I thought it would be fun with a follow-up on that post.
Microsoft Opening Up to Open Source Development
[2008-07-28] Friday at OSCON Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft, talked about Microsoft's steps on the open source road, explaining how Microsoft is going to contribute to open source development and communities.
OpenLogic's Aggregated Open Source Support
[2008-07-08] OpenLogic announced an evolution to their "aggregated open source support" model today. According to the press release:
eBay's Developer Platform Project Echo
[2008-06-17] As popular as the place for online auctions once was, eBay has slowly but steadily fallen from favor, especially among tech bloggers and reporters in 2008. But today they've announced plans for something which they hope will reverse their failing fortunes: a developer platform.
cf.Objective() 2008 - A "Must See" Event
[2008-04-14] This year's cf.Objective() has a lot of firsts. If you're not attending, you're going to miss out on a lot of world premier events!
Development in XML-based Flash
[2008-03-17] So in theory, you might one day edit the images of an XFL file directly in Photoshop without disturbing the timeline information also contained in that file. Or you might be able to import a page from a word processing document into a Flash presentation.
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