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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Implementation can be the hardest aspect of an SEO campaign. Even after keyword research, content creation, and link building have all gotten underway, we often find that campaigns fail because the on-page optimization was never actually added to the site code. Invariably, it is the webmaster that is responsible for failing to implement recommended changes. [...]
By: Patrick Hare
Friday, June 25th, 2010
This month Google Webmaster Tools updated its list of crawl errors to include Soft 404s. What is a Soft 404? Basically it indicates a missing page that is getting referenced (via an internal or external link) and followed by the search engine spider. Usually a server setting redirects traffic to the missing page address to [...]
By: Patrick Hare in Design, SEO, Site Navigation, Web Design, Web Development
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Tracking website changes is always advisable for anyone who has an SEO campaign in place. In many cases, SEO changes can get wiped out when a webmaster reverts to an older version of the site, or inadvertently deletes code placed on the website for better rankings.
By: Patrick Hare in Developers, SEO, Web Development
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Part of the problem with landing page design for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is that there is a conflict between the type of page that is likely to rank on a search engine and the type of page that a person will interact with. In the world of landing page specialists, these page types are [...]
By: Patrick Hare in SEO, Web Development
Friday, February 12th, 2010
One of the first disclaimers on the topic of increasing Google PageRank is that it is not necessary for SEO success. Google PageRank is based on the quality of links pointing at your site from other sites, and depends on a variety of factors such as the value of the links pointing at the sites, [...]
By: Patrick Hare in Navigation, SEO, Site Navigation, Web Development
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Even though the domain name aftermarket isn’t as lucrative as it was before the economic downturn, there are still ways to “flip” a domain name in the same way real estate speculators flipped houses. Many of the principles are even the same, since the usual method involves buying distressed or undervalued property, remodeling and refurbishing [...]
By: Patrick Hare in SEO, Web Development
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
There’s a new phenomenon in Google search results that is worthy of a quick update. If Google has properly classified the location of your business, you may find yourself at a higher spot in the organic search results when you do your searches from in town. When you’re searching from a few hundred miles away, [...]
By: Patrick Hare in Google, Web Development
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Similar to the concept of Domain Trust, the idea of Page Trust (or “on page trust factors”) centers around a search engine’s rating of the type and kind of content on a website itself. There is a certain amount of controversy in the SEO community about whether and how an engine like Google would assign [...]
By: Patrick Hare in SEO, Web Development
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
The Google Adwords Quality Score is a bit of an enigma to most people who run their own Pay-Per-Click (PPC) marketing campaigns. This is because there are multiple factors involved, several of which are confidential to Google. The importance of the quality score, however, cannot be understated because it determines your position on sponsored results [...]
By: Patrick Hare in SEO, Web Development
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
If you’re running any kind of enterprise that depends on internet traffic, then you know that conversion rate optimization can be the difference between getting by and getting ahead. Whether your website traffic comes exclusively from search engines or from radio and television ads, websites that are optimized for conversion can turn clicks into sales. [...]
By: Patrick Hare in Web Development