I’ve just finished rebuilding a site for a client who offers translation services, LWT Communications. A graphic designer had created the original site, and there wasn’t much actual text on the site for search engines to gobble up. The designer had basically taken the work and created jpeg files for each of the pages. A [...]
This might be a simple tip for many people, but it could be an eye opener for some. When we think of SEO (search engine optimization) we often talk about how to optimize your site. Certainly many elements of SEO are on a site basis, for example proper use of heading tags (h1, h2, h3, [...]
Nick Wilson from Performancing recently interviewed Matt Cutts from Google regarding SEO for bloggers. When Matt speaks I listen. One particular Q/A caught my attention.
Q. Can you give the Performancing readers a few tips on ranking in Google?
A. I wouldn’t bother with year/month/day in blog urls; I’d just use the first few words from [...]
It has been one week since my new GPS Review website opened. Seven days ago I created the script that would feed Google updated XML sitemaps, submitted my site to MSN, Yahoo, and Google and blogged about it here. Now that it has been running for one week, here is an update.
I currently rank #1 [...]
I couldn’t believe it when I saw this same guy post the same question again to yet another different forum. This guy built a poor website on purpose that takes over two minutes and thirty seconds to load over dial-up and then asks in every forum he can how to fix it. His real quest [...]
It is the last day of June so it is time again to start gathering statistics. Just a few quick items to report until tomorrow. Across all of the keywords I track I jumped a total of 156 positions. Each keyword I track jumped an average of 2.2 positions this month and my average keyword [...]
Normally when you think of optimizing websites or pages for certain keywords you think just a few keywords. It can be challenging to optimize for large volumes of keywords, keeping your important keywords ranking well at the same time.
Now when I meet with clients we create two lists. One list is short and consists of [...]
Although not a website I designed, I’ve been consulting the International Aeronauts League of Ballooning on how they might improve their website and reach more people.
Phase one was completed yesterday by eliminating the use of frames on the website. This alone should help spiders index the site more completely. Using frames can have a [...]
Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) is a growing field. Some clients are hiring one company to design the aesthetics and visual design for a website, another firm to construct the website, and yet another company to provide search engine optimization and marketing services.
So what if you hire one company to do all of them? [...]
I’m about to launch a new website, this time one I developed for my own purposes rather than another client. Ultimately I needed to decide what I would use for a domain name. Based on the service being offered, the most logical domain name choices were already taken, so I needed to become a little [...]