One of the most important considerations in DIY website design involves getting website design templates that are search engine friendly. This is essential because many do-it-yourself website design suites are based on content management system (CMS) platforms that may not allow you to control page titles, meta descriptions, and other factors that are going to determine how well your site ranks in the search engines. (more…)
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Developing Good SEO For Your Site
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Cleaning And Speeding Up Your WordPress Blog
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010This is a followup to my previous post on adding scripts only to the WordPress pages that need them. Please read that first, or this might not make much sense…
To cleanup the dynamically generated head section even more, you can disable the styles associated with scripts that aren’t loaded on every page.
The easy way to do this is very similar to what I talked about last time – add this code to your functions.php file (or custom-functions.php if your theme supports it):
To Create Compelling Headlines You Need To Work Backwards
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Here’s a synopsis of an excellent post by Adam Singer, How to Write Compelling Social News Headlines; check out the complete source article for a discussion of each recommendation:
Crafting unmissable headlines which resonate with social users is something which appears deceptively simple. Yet it’s an art form requiring writers, bloggers and marketers to craft thousands of headlines to perfect.
Building Your Site For Your End User Not Your Rank
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009I am here at Search Engine Stratgies Chicago 2009 and today I had the pleasure of enjoying a wonderful panel on analytics with Jim Sterne, Matt Bailey, and Dennis Mortensen from Yahoo.
Dennis Mortensen worked as COO of Index Tools up until the day they were bought out by Yahoo. He is the author of Yahoo! Web Analytics book and today he provided an interesting topic of discussion. (more…)
Great Blogging Tool You Have Never Heard About
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Darren Rowse poses an interesting question in asking What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools? It clearly also is a topic that will generate a great deal of comment and discussion given the popularity of his Problogger blog.
It’s time for a little discussion – lets talk blogging tools. Over in the ProBlogger.com forum there’s been a lot of talk about different tools, applications, platforms and plugins that helps to improve blogs. I’m loving the different opinions and experiences and thought it’d be a good question to open up to the wider community – what are your favourite 10 blogging tools? I suspect most of us will probably include our blogging platform (Blogspot, WordPress, TypePad etc) in the list somewhere but other than that anything goes. Perhaps it’s a comments tool, perhaps a desktop editor, perhaps a plugin or widget – anything goes!
100,000 Lucky Developers Selected To Test Google Wave
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Google is getting ready to roll out Google Wave, and while it is unlikely that I’ll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be a product that will solve some of the problems that I see in how to develop smaller communities of interests around colleges, friends, and others that are a more private and inviting environment than what currently exists as an option for people.
Your Site Load Time Can Effect Your SEO Ranking
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Have you ever considered how your website’s loading time might impact your search engine rankings? It might be time to take a closer look at this as Google and Yahoo! have both brought some attention to the issue recently.
Google’s stance on the issue has always been that page load times do not have an impact in their algorithm – until now. As part of their initiative to speed up the web, Google have said that page load times could become a consideration in the future.
Learning To Understand Web Analytics
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Hearing the questions from so many that come to my seminars, one would think that analytics was difficult or hard to grasp. Seriously, it has caused great wonder as to why the concept of analytics would prove such a perplexing and daunting task to so many people. (more…)
Moving Forward In Anticipation Of Web 3.0 Strategies
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009We’re all aware that Web 1.0 is over and we’re trying to get up to speed with Web 2.0. So what’s around the corner with Web 3.o? Peter Granat, CEO of Cision Europe spoke to the attendees of Media Relations Summit 09 about the future of PR and technology today. The migration to online news is a well known fact now and not only is this affecting larger newspapers - 300 regional newspapers have disappeared. (more…)
Open Source Monitoring With GroundWork 5.3 Release
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Groundwork, the provider of the open source based network management software, announced the availability of GroundWork 5.3. The new platform increased scalability, the number of devices managed by a single subscription, and avoids per-node licensing. (more…)