SEO, Where To Start?
The question that I seem to get most often is “How do you get a site found on Google?” I believe that Google likes it better if they discover your site through their own efforts rather than having you submit to them. This is my own opinion, but I have seen cases where a brand […]
SEO Help For Beginners
When I am writing about designing sites and promoting them I often talk about optimizing a site or a page for the search engines so that they will find your site and will send you visitors. After all, there is good traffic and bad traffic, but having more visitors come to our site to do […]
How Not To Do SEO
It seems that everyone is getting into the SEO business these days. I do a good bit or research on the subject and try to give simple advice that can be used by most any webmaster to improve their search engine standings. The information that I provide you I believe to be accurate current and […]
Sensible and Practical SEO Advice
Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide is very sensible and practical in her advise about SEO. her new article “SEO Basics: “Click Here” is Evil” is just that again. Her advise it to never use Click Here as a link. Where ever possible you should be descriptive with your text links and use things like […]
What’s Important For SEO?
Sometimes when designing a new site for a client it’s hard to get them to consider SEO as an important factor. Sure they will give it lip service “We want our site to be easily found on the search engines”, but when you explain to them what it takes you get the nodding of the […]
SEO Help – Title Tags
The title tag is the tag on your web page that puts the title of the page in the blue bar at the very top of your page. It usually looks like this in the code <TITLE>This is a Title Tag</TITLE> Many people believe that this is the most important part of your page as […]
SEO and Politics
It looks like the political types are getting involved in SEO and SEM and the Republicans are starting to buy up keywords. It seems that the Democrats are behind in this area, but you know they will try to catch up. Michael Bassik has written a very good post on this. I can’t wait to […]
Still Another SEO Resource
SEO (search engine optimization) still seems to be the most popular topic for readers of my blog. It seems many designers either don’t have the resources to hire an SEO company, don’t trust the SEO companies, or just want to learn to do it themselves. In any case here is another resource that will let […]
SEO Best Practices
SearchEngineWatch has published a wonderful article called “An Introduction to SEO Best Practices” and it’s just what it says. They say “SEO best practices have been constantly evolving since the advent of the search engines themselves. As we enter 2007, this evolution continues, inexorably pushing the Web site owner toward practices that begin to sound […]
Can I Do SEO Myself?
The short answer is, of course you can. Many website owners don’t have the resources to hire someone for Search Engine Optimization and with a little common sense it’s not that hard to do, but there are so many ideas floating around about what makes good SEO and what doesn’t. These days search pretty much […]
