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 ‘Resources’ Category
Developing Good SEO For Your Site
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Increasing Your SEO Through Extended Tagging
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Google has been using snippets automatically generated from websites to show as instead of the Meta description. Only until recently, the last few years, have Google and the other search engines began to recognize the use of custom generated Meta tags that webmasters have inserted into the HTML code to show up in the search engine rankings. (more…)
Building Site Architecture And Internal Links
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010In order to move your site up in the search engine rankings you have to get your optimized content to the search engines in the most streamlined way possible. There are some common problems that often stand in the way of that. These problems may not keep the search engines from finding and indexing and even ranking your content, however they can greatly effect the performance of that content in terms of how well it ranks in the search results.
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.
SEO Tools To Analyze Your Clients And Competitors Websites
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009There are a number of SEO tools I use on a daily basis to help me analyze a client or competitors website. I will use specific tools depending on what type of data I am looking to analyze. These tools can save you a lot of time when researching links, on-page/off-page SEO, social media, ORM, and site analytics.
Best of all.. each of these tools all free! (more…)
Fixing Simple Issues To Get Your Site Listed With Google
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009In the world of SEO, there’s nothing worse than finding out that your site is no longer listed in the search engines. In many cases, you may be missing a whole site, or several pages, because of one or more simple problems that can be resolved fairly quickly. Also, if you have a new site that hasn’t gotten any search engine attention at all, you may want to look and make sure you’re telling the search engine spiders that they’re allowed to come in and take a look around.
Addressing Issues That Plague Web Application Measurements
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Online Applications and highly-interactive web sites written in full-on programming languages are becoming the norm on the web, not the rare exception. Measuring these applications is challenging for a whole host of reasons. In my last post, I talked about the importance of automated testing to bring measurement fully into the application development life-cycle. In today’s post, I’m going to cover an issue that plagues application measurement, video and most other rich media measurement – how to balance cost vs. coverage when it comes to measurement.
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!
Writing Site Content Through A Block
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Anyone who writes a regular blog knows about writers block. But no matter how much time you spend staring at that blank page, the article just never writes itself.
Pity.
So how do you overcome writers block?
Here are a few tips.
Topic Selection
It’s not that there aren’t plenty of topics to write about, the problem is we often feel we need to say something new. The reality is that not much is genuinely new. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. (more…)
Are Bad CAPTCHAs Hurting Your Customer Base?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009CAPTCHA acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” is a way for sites to block spam. According to Wikipedia it is
“A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. Thus, it is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test, because it is administered by a machine and targeted to a human, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is typically administered by a human and targeted to a machine. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type letters or digits from a distorted image that appears on the screen.”