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Making Your Site More Search Friendly
[2010-02-08] When developing a website, you can save yourself a lot of problems down the road by planning ahead before moving full speed into the site development process. One of the first site architectural issues to consider is how your URLs will read. This is especially important for e-commerce websites that quite often have long complicated URLs. But having good URL structure is still no less important for static websites.
Is There Any Value In Trackbacks?
[2010-01-25] The idea of trackbacks and pingbacks are great. It's a way of getting notified when someone else posts about you on their blog. However, spammers have taken over and it makes you wonder if there is any value in trackbacks anymore.
How To SEO For Your Niche
[2010-01-11] In some ways, SEO for niche sites and products can be easy. There may not be a lot of competition for your keywords, and you can get good rankings on them in a relatively short amount of time. The downside is that you may not be seeing a lot of traffic, even with top rankings, because niche items (by definition) don't see a lot of demand.
Do You Have A Landing Page?
[2009-12-28] This great short video on the 7 deadly sins of a Landing Page Design is great! Pay attention to the the use of pics and text. Also look at too much of pics or text can be bad as well.
How To Build Your Site Ranking Through One Way Links
[2009-12-07] In the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) "one way link building" involves getting other people to hyperlink to your website without sending a link back to theirs (reciprocal linking) or exchanging links in a triangular fashion with a third party.
Saving Your SEO Budget To Achieve Your Goals
[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.
Good SEO Strategies Are Worked On Everyday
[2009-11-09] Many people think that SEO is a set-it and forget it endeavor. The theory is that once you optimize the site then there really isn't much more to do after that. This is something that many penny pinchers like to espouse so they can try to "save money". Others just don't like the idea that online marketing is a never ending process. We like to have goals and want to see things through a conclusion.
Dealing With Low Quality Links To Your Site
[2009-10-26] A latest Webmaster Blog is providing solutions to the webmasters who want to get rid of the low-quality links on the Webmaster Tools. There is no doubt that every site owner wants to build a good reputation for its site and the poor-quality incoming links can harm the credibility & ranking of the site.
Creating Custom 404 Pages To Handle Errors
[2009-10-05] Last week I wrote about 404 errors and how to track them in your web analytics tool. In this post I am going to look at how various sites are dealing with 404 error messages and provide your 7 ways of handling 404 pages on your site.
404 Errors Could Be Killing Your Site's SEO
[2009-09-21] This is search engine optimization tip number twenty nine in our continuing series of search engine optimization tips. All of our 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. In fact, this search engine optimization tip is pretty simple: check your 404 error pages on your website.
How To Correct Malformed WordPress Links
[2009-09-08] I checked my blog and the URLs looked malformed, with the following structure: http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/2009/09/03/unlocking-unconventional-traffic-sources-for-affiliate-campaigns/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/#comment-506929. If you notice something similar or weird with your Wordpress blog, you might want to take the following steps:
How To Rank High With SEO
[2009-08-24] Yesterday, Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOMoz, announced that the SEOMoz team has released the results of their biennial Search Engine Ranking Factors for 2009. The data is based on the collective responses of 72 SEO experts from around the industry.
Adding Digg And Facebook Support To Your Blog Site
[2009-08-10] If you're involved with social media sites like Digg, Facebbok or Reddit, you've probably seen stories with images next to them. If you've submitted stories there, you may have seen it present you with a few image choices, sometimes the one you want is there sometimes it isn't.
Increasing Site Revenue With Better Keyword Targeted Ads
[2009-07-27] When you're running a blog with affiliate links, one of the key factors that can increase your conversions, help you make more sales, and ultimately put more money in your pocket, is to have ads that are targeted to match the content. In this tutorial I'll be showing you some tactics on how you can improve this targeting using tags.
Building A Consistent Mobile Representation Of Your Website
[2009-07-13] One of the constant PITA experiences I have when using the web from a mobile device is the many websites you go to that aren't optimized for the small screen of a Nokia phone, an HTC, a BlackBerry, iPhone or any other mobile device you can think of.
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.
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