Microsoft is the master, but many, many programmers and software development companies are guilty. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had the most meaningless error messages pop up on my computer screen. What set me off this morning? A client sent me a Word file. A simple, one-page Word file. I double-clicked it. […]
...Keep reading »Can your site be tweaked?
Many of my clients already have an existing web site when they contact me. Often they’re unhappy with their site’s visual design, or its functionality, or its performance in the search engines. I hate — I really hate — telling a potential client that their site needs to be completely re-developed from the ground up […]
...Keep reading »The Infamous Canonical URL Issue
Difficult as it may be to believe, but by January of 2007, Google is still unable to recognize when URLs that obviously lead to the same page are in fact the same page. So what’s a URL, and what’s the problem here?
...Keep reading »Top Ten Easiest Code Tweaks To Improve Your Site’s Search Engine Performance
A unique, custom title tag on every page in the site
...Keep reading »Boxing the Sandbox
Is there a sandbox or is there not? Is the question purely one of semantics? Let’s see what Googler Matt Cutts actually had to say:
...Keep reading »SEO Hacking for Fun and Profit
Timing is everything. I launched this blog on Jan. 11. On about the 15th, some crazy hacker started hitting SEO-related blogs, using a security vulnerability discovered in the WordPress blog software. Just my luck. The story of my life.
...Keep reading »Choosing a domain name
You’ve decided your business needs a web site. Good, that’s the first step. You have a lot of additional steps to get through before you actually have a web site. One of those steps is selecting a domain name for your site.
...Keep reading »Linkbait: What is it?
Web sites need inbound links to do well in search engines. One-way, unpaid-for links are clearly the types of links the search engines prefer. How does one go about getting such links?
...Keep reading »On-page SEO: What matters, what doesn’t
My quick rundown: Title tag: Yes, this one’s a biggie. All indications are that the title of the page matters a lot to Google and the other SEs. Every page on a web site should have well-written title that accurately summarizes the page’s main focus.
...Keep reading »Google Maps
Yesterday I sniped at Google with my No NoFollow post, but today I’m here to praise Google. The technology that powers Google Maps is so very cool, and the very best thing about it, in my opinion, is that Google lets us use that technology right on our very own web sites!
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