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 […]
Be Careful Of Who You Hire For SEO
I have written many times about good ways to help your site get found by the search engines. This post is about the bad ones. I usually get my share of “Blog Spam”. That is, people or bots who post comments on my blog that usually have nothing to do with the content. These folks […]
More Good SEO Advice
On the Search Engine Watch site Mark Jackson of the ClickZ Network has posted an article called “Avoiding Cookie Cutter SEO”. He speaks about how no two web sites are created equal and how template SEO is just bad business. Search engines are looking for unique sites to show to their searchers and generally what […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hotlinking Images – Don’t Do It
There is a post on the blogoscoped site dealing with people getting high rankings by hotlinking images from other sites. It’s an interesting idea, but now that the word is out I’m sure search engines will change and this practice will not work any more. In case you don’t know, a hotlinked image is one […]
What Good Are Wikipedia Links?
Wikipedia in an effort to combat posting spam changed all of their links to “nofollow”. What that means is that search engines will no longer apply any page rankings from the Wikipedia site to the linked site. Whether the spiders follow those links or not is not known for sure. Does that mean it’s not […]
Why Do We Need A Website?
Today I’m meeting with a potential new customer. This is a group of people who are divided on whether they need a site or not. A couple of them are pushing hard to have one and they have asked me to speak to them today. Rather than giving them the hard sell and telling them […]
How To Improve Your Site’s Ranking
I usually write about how to make your site search engine friendly. Adding new relevant content, having spiderable links, etc. There is another factor in getting your site ranked high on the search engines. Getting a higher page rank is something you have less control over. To have your site rank higher, you need to […]
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 […]
