Jun
17
Web Stats, by Any Name, Are a Required Necessity
June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareStatistics Software and What it Means to Us Today I remember being happy with a simple counter on my pages. I’d check it every day and see whether I had visitors or not. If I did, I knew I was doing well and I’d keep working on the site. Today, there is a lot more [...]
Jun
15
ShareIn the beginning of internet time there were very few websites around. It was fairly simple to be listed well for whatever keywords you needed to be found for. Over the course of time more and more sites showed up and the engines had to develop stronger algorithms in order to provide decent results to [...]
Jun
13
Add Emphasis to Your Body Content
June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareI see the lack of emphasis a lot of websites. Sometimes it’s because they have never really been optimized but other times I see a site that seemingly has been worked on but has not utilized bolding and italicizing etc. I’m not sure if it is overlooked, or if it just isn’t applied, but more [...]
Jun
4
ShareThere is one thing that seems to be universal in the world of being a human being. That is the desire to be captivated, to be entertained. Take the time to write up a good title for your content that really shows exactly what the content is about, as well as providing them with no [...]
May
29
Long Tail Key Phrases and Algorithmic Changes
May 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareThere are new changes afoot to the Google algorithm and things are definitely changing. Are they changing for the good, or for the bad? Google is ever changing and perhaps we like them for that, but it’s no fun when you lose listings, and consequently traffic. It seems that this algorithmic change lies in the [...]
May
28
Title Tags Need to Define as Well as Entice
May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareYou need to utilize the title tag of your site because it is important to your users, to get their attention, as well as to the engines to provide the keywords and a definition of the page. Keep the title tag short, but not so short that it doesn’t define the page, and be sure [...]
Mar
24
Website Content … Informative? Useful? or Just Blabber?
March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareI wrote an article for Ezine Articles recently about website content after visiting a couple of websites in a row that had content that just didn’t provide me with any information. Let me go on, into more depth, here on my blog. I mentioned the word literary work in describing what I thought website content [...]
Mar
4
SEO Training / Cost of SEO (continued)
March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareTo continue along with the “Price of SEO” posting I want to be sure you understand that you can do the SEO for your site yourself. It’s not beyond a moderately savvy website owner to optimize their own website, or have someone on your staff do it. I’m referring to training yourself to do this [...]
Feb
28
What Does SEO Cost?
February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareIt might be a better question to ask … what will it cost if I don’t optimize my site? You can pay very little in this day and age to get your site “optimized”, but to what degree will it be done? I see a lot of people from Asia advertising their SEO skills and [...]
Feb
25
Ya Gotta Know Your Best Keywords
February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ShareIt’s happened again … a site that is targeting keywords that just aren’t the best ones for them. Isn’t the whole idea to drive traffic to your site? Well then, you need to know what people are searching for, with regularity, and what the competition is for those keywords, before you decide on which one [...]