Make Sure That Your Content Is On Your Site
I noticed a discussion on LinkedIn today about whether you blogs URL should look like this www.myblog.blogspot.com or like this www.mydomain.com/blog. Some people couldn’t understand the difference and others didn’t think that it mattered. Well, there is a difference and it does matter. The Difference… When you are looking to see who owns a website […]
Adding Links To A Site
A customer recently asked me to remove some of the links on their “exchange links” page. They said “If I am not on their site – I don’t want theirs on mine.” I wrote back that it really doesn’t work that way any more. That they should consider getting rid of their links page. It […]
Should You Be Conceerned With New Algorithms?
Everyone is constantly talking about what will be the next “Google Killer”. New search engines appear and older competitors are trying new ways to be more effective in locating and displaying what you are looking for. Recently Microsoft has begun trying a new search theory called BrowseRank which relies more on human visitor elements by […]
Looking At Your Site From The Outside
It happens so often that we concentrate our attention on our own business that often we miss the way that our customers sees our business. In our own store or one that we’re designing we know exactly where everything is and also how it works so we often assume that someone who is not familiar […]
Good Web Design Hasn’t Changed That Much
There are many things about designing web sites that have changed from the beginning of cyber time and many things that haven’t. I try to point out a well done site every week in my Favorite Site Design category. The truth is that while the look of well done websites has gotten cleaner, easier to […]
Google Is Getting Better At Reading Flash
I probably will still advise not using Flash for making the navigation for your pages, but Google is starting to look at your Flash pages with new eyes. They still probably won’t see your site like your human visitors do, but it looks like things are getting better for them being able to know what’s […]
SEO For Images On Your Site
More and more search engines are giving pictures (and now video) in their results pages. Does that mean that their spiders are now able to “view” and index these files. I imagine that it is probably getting better, but they sill mostly rely on what you tell them that the image is about. There are […]
Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO?
There is a very interesting discussion going on in a post on the search engine land site by Stoney deGeyter called Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO? I’m thinking that small business can’t afford not use SEO for their sites. It’s the only thing that really levels the playing field with the big boys. Even […]
Content Paralysis
I had a friend who I met a while back at a PAPEN meeting contact me recently. Her daughter is a real estate agent and she was trying to put together a website for her business. She had paid someone to design her site over a year ago and still has nothing up. The designer […]
I’m A Bad Boy – Hidden Links
My Google page rank recently which was OK for a year old site “4” recently dropped to a big fat “0”. I couldn’t think of what I did to incur their wrath and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I recently added a spam trap from the Project Honey Pot site. I […]
