So you have a website, and you’re getting traffic – but the sales aren’t rolling in. Or maybe they are, but they’re not setting the world on fire. All too often websites are built with little or no consideration given to their usability. And this is often the critical difference between good and great websites.
Is that Virtual Pageview really being sent to Google Analytics when someone submits my registration form? Does the Event Tracking Call for outbound links get to GA in time before the visitor has left my website? Why do I not get any data for clicks on my teaser links? Questions that can drive a Web
In an important change in the Webmaster Tools, Google has changed the way to categorize link data. This means that reporting links will now be handled in a different way in Google Webmaster Tools. And the big change is that subdomain links will now be considered as external links, but as internal links. What Has
The search engines are waging a never ending battle against black hat SEO techniques. They tweak their algorithms, and bring in huge changes like the Panda, to clean up black hat results from search. If you or your SEO firm have been practicing black hat SEO, then beware, or the engines’ wrath may fall upon
If the third step, user authentication, is the most confusing, making API calls is the most tricky. Here we will look at a general overview of what making API calls is all about and then look at a basic overview of what is involved in an API call. What is an API Call? Let’s use
Bing’s Duane Forrester emphasized that, “Bing likes quality, original content. Skip syndicated content and articles as a way forward.” on a Webmaster World.com forum. In a discussion seeking for directions on driving more traffic to websites via Bing, Duane provided a starters guide about vital information to help SEO’s create Bing friendly sites. Following is
One of the most looked forward to sessions of the SES San Francisco-Day 2, was Landing Page Optimization. The next step after the search efforts to direct users to the site. The landing page is of prime importance, and is responsible for conversions too. The session on tuning your landing pages was put together by:
The 3rd session of Search Engine Strategies San Francisco 2011, Day 2 focused mainly on how WordPress can be used to manage and resolve SEO by anyone with ease. Moderator: Matthew Bailey Speakers: Christopher Auman, President and Senior Strategist of Santuary Media Group Paulo Pessanha, Director of Search Marketing at TREE The session was initiated
In the overview we stated there are three parts to OAuth: setup, authorization process, and API calls. There are five ordered events that make up these parts. Here we will look at the three events that make up the authorization process: request token request, user authorization, and access token request. As a preface to this
August is one of the months that I devote to job trends. Last week I focused on the trends for traditional languages like C++ and Java. Today, we return to what I call the web and scripting languages. You may be wondering what I mean by “web and scripting languages”, and my list currently includes Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Flex and Groovy.
