Starting A Website On A Shoestring
What would you do if you wanted to start a new website and had pretty much no money to do it with? When I decided to begin this business that was pretty much my case. I thought at the time that I can try to work for myself and all that I really have to […]
What Makes A Great Site
When I’m advising someone about how to design and lay out a new website I always try to think about it with the search engines in mind. There are some basic things, like navigation, that really matter. Jill Whalen of High Rankings wrote an interesting post on searchengineland called “Don’t Sweat the Small SEO Stuff”. […]
More Great Tools for Any Webmaster
I have been reading to the Site Pro News website for almost six years and subscribing to their newsletter/rss feed.. It is still one of my favorite sites for news and tools for my favorite topics, web design, web promotion, and search engine optimization. Today’s article is Part 1 in a series called “Freeware SEO […]
Thinking about redesigning your site?
Before you redesign your old site is the perfect time to start planning for SEO.You want to build your new site with the search engines in mind because getting them to like and trust your site can be the biggest boost to traffic and sales that you can have. You want to be able to […]
Does Your Message Sell?
It seems many times that I have had a customer tell me exactly how they want their site to look (add 5px of padding to that paragraph or move that picture up and over to the right just a smidgen) and never give a second thought to their actual message. My job as a web […]
Do You Have a Current Backup?
I subscribe to Matt Cutts’ blog and so I wasn’t surprised to read this morning that it was hacked and replaced by a group called “Dark SEO Team”. I’m not sure if all of his pages are gone or not, but it got me to thinking about security and information backup issues. Then just by […]
Is A Blog Right For Your Business?
One of the best ways to help a site improve in the search rankings is to add new content on a regular basis. One of the best tools for doing this is to add a blog. A blog adds new content to your site every time that you post. If you are lucky enough to […]
Great Link Building Tips
Recently I wrote an article called “SEO is Really Pretty Simple” where I talked about getting a better page rank and how to do that is by getting other high ranking pages to link to you. Page rank is the scale of how valuable your site is considered by the search engines. The higher your […]
Small Business Promotion Ideas
Michael Gray has put together a great post of thirteen ways that small businesses can promote themselves for free at his Graywolf SEO Blog. While most of his suggestions apply to businesses with a local presence, there are still quite a few on there that will apply to any small business. I have recommended to […]
Search Engine Optimization is Really Pretty Simple
There has been quite a bit talk going around SEO blogs lately about whether Search Engine Optimization is dying or is already dead. I don’t believe that’s true. One of the main reasons for this argument is that SEO is really pretty simple and anyone can do it for themselves. 1) Have good navigation that […]
