Creating Your Own Website Content
It’s always a good idea to add new content to your site. The best kind of content is some that you create yourself. There are many different ways to do it and I am always on the lookout for some new ideas to create and promote my content. Most if these promotion ideas involve sharing […]
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 […]
What Do You Want Your Wesite To Do?
This is usually one of the first questions that I ask a potential client before starting to work on their site. I am still surprised by how many people don’t have any idea. They know they should have a site because “it’s the thing to do” or “because everyone else has one” or they have […]
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 […]
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 […]
Using Keywords To Be Found
There has always been a great debate about exactly how keywords should be used on your pages. Should I use them in my headlines and how many times should they be on a page? How many times does repeating your keyword on a page does it take before your page will be considered Spam? When […]
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 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”. […]
Cool Buttons With CSS
I hear requests for all kinds of buttons. I prefer to make them with regular text and use CSS for effects. That way you know search engines will be able to follow them and you can help improve your page rank by having the link say “This is what my page is about” right on […]
Know Who Your Visitors Are
One of the things that my customers ask me the most is how to know how much and what kind of traffic is coming to their site. I usually tell them that the first place to start is with their visitor logs. Most web hosts these days offer a complete stats package, as well as, […]
