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Using Proper REL Links On Your Site
[2010-08-24] For some reason this keeps cropping up, and I thought I would write a small informative guide. I know one major web 2.0 property that recently added rel="dofollow" to links, and there is a massive site doing 40M+ visitors a month which last time I looked was using rel="noindex".
Should You Cloak Site Links
[2010-08-11] I often hear people give reasons for cloaking links, but the reasons they give are frequently incomplete, suggesting they are cloaking links purely because they have been told by someone else they should do it.
Increasing Conversion Rates Of Your Registration Page
[2010-07-28] When asking people to fill in the fields, be clear on the format of the answer you expect. Specify what characters can be used, and what characters can't be used.
Increasing Your Site Ranking Through SEO
[2010-07-13] There are so many tips out there that tell us how to conduct an effective SEO campaign to help our websites achieve their full potential. Search engine optimization is the key to website success as it increases your website's marketability, and ultimately, it helps site owners achieve their end goals, whether it's profit maximization or increased awareness for a certain news topic.
Natural Site Linking Is A Good Start But Not The Solution To SEO
[2010-07-02] I don't know how many times Google have said: "Produce great content and if users find it useful, they'll recommend and link to you." But Google, how do I get these people to even come through your engine? "Produce great content and they'll (somehow) come. They'll find your content and recommend you!"
Increasing Your Local Traffic By Optimizing Pages On Your Site
[2010-06-17] This post will go over the meat and potatoes of optimizing individual web pages for a localized keyword. In the past 7 posts we have discussed selecting keywords for a small business website, and now have mapped which keyword each page will carry.
How To Debug Your 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 View And Edit Your Whois Data To Increase SEO
[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.
Adding Extra Social Media Connections With The Facebook Like Box
[2010-05-19] I've been inspired by your Facebook fan page, Dave, and have one of my own. Now that I have it, though, I'd like to be able to inclue a "like" box on my blog so that people not only see a link to the fan page, but see a few members, etc. I have seen it done on other blogs but can't figure out what they did. Is it a Wordpress plugin?
Adjusting Your Live Website Using Webmaster Tools Data
[2010-05-07] OK, so you've got your site set-up and configured in Google Webmaster tools. Now it's time to start looking at the data.
How To Initially Set Up Your Website
[2010-04-21] All right beginners pay attention and I'll instruct you "How To Set Up A Web Page Free"!!! There are a lot of sites out there that make you believe that they are going to give you free website or free web addresses or free something or the other.
How To Auto-detect That Someone Is On An iPad Web Browser
[2010-04-06] I'm working on my Web site and now that the Apple iPad is out, I'd like to customize my greeting for people using that device. How can I auto-detect that they're on an iPad?
Understanding And Building Your Site Links
[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.
Optimizing SEO Through Link Architecture
[2010-03-10] Many webmasters focus a majority of their time on building new links to their site with a variety of link building methods. While this is certainly an important part of SEO, it's also beneficial to review your existing links to make sure you're getting the most out of them. Here's a few simple ways to improve the SEO benefit of your existing link partners.
Understanding The Differences Of Robots.txt and X-Robots-Tag
[2010-02-24] It has become common practice to implement robot.txt files to prevent the search engine spiders from crawling your webpage and having it show up in the search engine results page (SERP). Unfortunately, robots.txt does not prevent your site from showing up in the search engine results.
How to Valuate Your Page Elements
[2010-02-09] It might seem elementary, but there isn't much study around the value of the various HTML page elements in search engine results pages (SERPs). For SEO professionals there are always discussions about what is and isn't indexed and used as a value for search engine rankings. In fact, it has been discussed at length as to if Yahoo indexes the Meta keywords element and uses it as a ranking factor, then it was confirmed that Yahoo does index the Meta keywords, but that it has the lowest value for ranking purposes with this statement from Yahoo:
How Your End Users See And Scan Your Website
[2010-01-06] Earlier, I explained how our brain finds "Waldo." To briefly recap the post: We have two neural mechanisms for seeing things we might want to pay attention to: a peripheral scanning system that takes in a wide field of vision and a focused (foveal) system that allows us to drill down to details. We have neurons that are specialists in different areas: i.e. picking out colors, shapes and disruptions in patterns. We use these recruited neuronal swat teams to identify something we're looking for in our "mind's eye" (the visual cortex) prior to searching for it in our environment.
Reducing Your SEO Value Split
[2009-12-16] Did you know the average website can have 4 different URLs which all link to the home page? In many cases each of the following URLs will all provide the same home page content:
Best Practices For Authority Links
[2009-12-03] Erik Ortega is going to get a link from me for TriFilliate PayDay as he left a comment with a link to his review. The reasons why I am mentioning this? I think Erik represents the "good" human side of affiliate marketing and is learning his lessons well, and working hard.
Using A Free Web Hosting Service Can Limit Your Site Development
[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.
Hiding Your Domain For Testing Could Get You In Legal Trouble
[2009-11-06] You know that domain name that you don't want anyone to know that you own? The one that you're either testing out some SEO stuff that's in the "gray hat" area? The one you don't want your competitors to know that you own? The one you've been considering for sending spam emails?
Get A Better Understand Of Your User Through Analytics
[2009-10-22] Tools like Google Analytics give you an insight into your customer base that can't be matched by giants in the brick-and-mortar field. You actually can see what people have in their minds when they come to your website or online store, and you can use that information to expand your product line if people aren't finding what they're looking for.
Focusing On SEO Keywords Not Keyword Phrases
[2009-10-09] This is SEO tip number 32 in our continuing series of Search Engine Optimization tips. All of these search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific in nature, they will not take that long to review, and are directly to the point. This search engine optimization tip has to do with your what I would call your best keywords and focusing your SEO efforts on those keyword phrases.
Checking Conversion Rate Optimization Through Google Adwords
[2009-09-28] If you have a Google Adwords account, you have access to the Website Optimizer tool that is a very nifty application to get a great idea of the Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). PPC campaigns nowadays do not come cheap and the crucial factor is to keep track of the conversion rate of your sales funnel.
Creating Living URL's
[2009-09-18] If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts she brought up is Living URL's.
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