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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
A few weeks ago, I installed a new WordPress plugin on this site that would enable visitors on mobile devices to find their experience here worthwhile and make it more likely they would stick around on their visit, perhaps engage by leaving a comment, and maybe even return again.
The plugin is the WordPress Mobile Pack [...]
By: Neville Hobson in mobile, Mobile Developers, Web Development
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Are you still chasing crap links around? Doing PageRank sculpting or being fanatical over meta data? Then methinks you should stick around and read this post as you could be stuck somewhere circa 2007 in your SEO efforts.
A few things prompted this post; from a chat with fellow warriors, to developments [...]
By: David Harry in Web Design, Web Development
Friday, June 25th, 2010
Mobile development firm dotMobi introduced goMobi, a product designed to help businesses create and publish quality mobile websites.
Targeted mainly at small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) as well as mobile developers and designers, goMobi allows businesses to engage customers with sites that recognize the capabilities of each mobile phone and display the sites content so that it looks [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in goMobi, mobile
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Here we will touch on how to use a number of metrics in order to finalize local keyword selection for your website. During the last few posts I have reviewed how to generate keyword ideas, and sort them by traffic volume using Google’s Keyword Research Tool.
By: Jeff Howard in SEO, Web Design, Web Development
Friday, May 28th, 2010
While working at People To My Site, I’ve had the opportunity to work with many companies in the franchise business. Let me tell you, working with a platform of franchisees is a whole different animal than normal SEO.
SEO campaigns for large groups of franchisees requires a totally different mindset, as it would be far too [...]
By: Jacob Stoops in Developers, SEO, Web Development
Friday, April 30th, 2010
How to measure SEO success
Recently we learned that most SEOs still consider that rankings are a performance indicator, just less of a value than in the past. Or at least according to a recent poll we held. This all begged the question, what ARE the metrics of measuring SEO success? [...]
By: David Harry in Developers, SEO, Web Design, Web Development
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Search is a bit part of any online presence. Most people focus on getting people to their site, but what happens after they are there? Does your blogs search perform as well as it should?
If you are using WordPress’ default search, then what you are getting is a pretty bad search experience. It seems that [...]
By: Thomas McMahon in SEO, Site Navigation, Wordpress
Friday, April 9th, 2010
I generally implement my optimization campaigns in two phases. The first phase is a quick run through to get as many of the site pages “search engine friendly” as possible. The second is a much more thorough process that provides a complete optimization for each page.
Quick process can often be done in a matter of [...]
By: Stoney De Geyter in SEO, Web Development
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Link Analysis Progression
I said in my last post that each link is essentially a vote for the page that’s being linked to. That, essentially, was the original link analysis factors. Things have come a long way since then. Today’s link analysis factors are far more complex.
Over the years what gets analyzed as part of [...]
By: Stoney De Geyter in SEO, Web Development
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