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Friday, March 12th, 2010
I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What’s interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No wonder Google wants more bandwidth [...]
By: Bill Hartzer in Google, Social Media, Web Development
Friday, February 26th, 2010
I don’t usually participate in memes, but this SEO FAQ meme interests me… and I hope it will interest you. By way of introduction this SEO FAQ: 30+ SEO questions you always wanted an answer to was started by Berlin-based SEO specialist, Tad Chef. He has challenged at least 10 other SEO specialists to create [...]
By: David Leonhardt in 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, January 29th, 2010
I recently received an email from Duane Long asking a question about redirecting a domain name that he had recently purchased. He is trying to redirect the domain name so that he can get the proper link credit; so that the links from the domain name he bought is credited to his current, live website. [...]
By: Bill Hartzer in 301 Redirect, Web Development
Friday, January 15th, 2010
If you send out a regular online newsletter and aren’t subscribed to your mailing list, you are making a huge mistake. Today I received a weekly newsletter from a well known website. I love their content and really enjoy getting their online newsletter. But here’s what I saw when I opened my gmail.
By: Denise OBerry in Email, Web Development
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Here’s another method of filtering your Google Analytics to show the actual search phrase and referrer domain. (ie. restaurant consultants Chicago – www.xyz.com/comment)This hack is from Search Laboratory, an SEM company.
This post outlines the method used to set up Google analytics so that you can analyze the search phrase and domain that traffic has come [...]
By: Jon Hines in Google Analytics, Web Development
Friday, December 11th, 2009
Over the last few months I’ve been debating about moving my sites from Wordpress to ExpressionEngine. I’ve really enjoyed working with Wordpress the last 4 years. It’s a fantastic CMS, but I always felt a little handicapped when it came to custom designs.
Hearing over and over again that ExpressionEngine is the designers’ CMS, I decided [...]
By: Drew Stauffer in ExpressionEngine, Web Development, Wordpress
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Whether you or I like it or not, social media is inching it’s way further in importance. The idea of social media isn’t anything new, but recent events have set into motion what could be heavy game changers for all developers. I’m of course referring to Google and Bing’s deal with Twitter and Facebook. While [...]
By: John Vinson in SEO, Social Media, Web Development
Friday, November 13th, 2009
I have a question about back links. How do you get relavent back links without getting on link farms? I have been using twitter for a while and just started facebook. I was told to get a tinyurl and add a small fishing report on twitter and it would count [...]
By: Dave Taylor in SEO, Web Development
Monday, October 26th, 2009
If your business either has a traditional brick and mortar store front, or your site can value by being associated with your location, then you can benefit from Geo Tags. If your location is irrelevant to your online success, then Geo Tags will be of little use to you.
Geo Tags are trivially easy to implement [...]
By: Scott Van Achte in Geo Tagging, Web Development