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| Newsletter Archive 2010
Using Proper REL Links On Your Site
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".
Date: 2010-08-24
Should You Cloak Site Links?
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.
Date: 2010-08-11
Increasing Conversion Rates Of Your Registration Page
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.
Date: 2010-07-28
Increasing Your Site Ranking Through SEO
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.
Date: 2010-07-13
Natural Site Linking Is A Good Start But Not The Solution To SEO
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!"
Date: 2010-07-02
Increasing Your Local Traffic By Optimizing Pages On Your Site
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.
Date: 2010-06-17
VeriSign Report: Protect your code against Malware with Code Signing
Cyber
criminals are increasingly motivated by profit and malicious intent to
corrupt an organisation's software — this has been made evident by
recent attacks on a number of well-known online companies.
Date: 2010-06-16
How To Debug Your WordPress Upgrade
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.
Date: 2010-06-03
How To View And Edit Your Whois Data To Increase SEO
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.
Date: 2010-05-28
Adding Extra Social Media Connections With The Facebook Like Box
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?
Date: 2010-05-19
Adjusting Your Live Website Using Webmaster Tools Data
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. Your Site on the Web.
Google Webmaster Tools allows you to view some basic stats and data for your site.
Date: 2010-05-07
How To Initially Set Up Your Website
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.
Date: 2010-04-21
How To Auto-detect That Someone Is On An iPad Web Browser
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?
Date: 2010-04-06
Understanding And Building Your Site Linksg
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.
Date: 2010-03-24
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Date: 2010-03-18
Optimizing SEO Through Link Architecture
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.
Date: 2010-03-10
Understanding The Differences Of Robots.txt And X-Robots-Tag
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).
Date: 2010-02-24
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Date: 2010-02-11
How To Valuate Your Page Element
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.
Date: 2010-02-09
8 Ways to Increase Traffic on Your Website
Increasing traffic on your website is like increasing customers who enter the doors of your business. It can have positive, long-term effects for you and the services you are trying to provide. Whether you have a lot of money to spend or very little, you can increase traffic on your site by following some of these tips.
Date: 2010-01-20
How Your End Users See And Scan Your Website
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.
Date: 2010-01-06
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