Another Great Free Tool – Robots.txt Builder
The robots.txt file is a plain text file that you put in the root directory of your site which tells search engine robots where they can go, where they cannot go, how often to visit, what times to visit, where your sitemap is and more. This is a great file for website owners to have […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Keywords Do I Pick?
So you are designing your site and you want to be found on the search engines for certain keywords. You are not going to be found for these words if they are not in your headlines and main content. So what keywords do you choose? You want them to be relevant to your site, but […]
What Makes Good Content?
I like to tell my clients that to help your site attract more visitors and to improve your search engine rankings that you need to continuously add good new content. The big question then is just what makes good content? I feel that most of it should be directly related to your site and what […]
Is It Worth It To Give Away Information?
In a previous post I wrote about giving away free information. How it helps your standing in the eyes of customers and search engines. I recently drove about 300 miles to meet with a potential client. My first thought when they asked to meet with me was that they had mentioned in the beginning that […]
Promoting With Article Writing
One of the best free ways to promote your website and business and to add good content to your site is to write articles and to promote them on the many free article distribution sites available to authors. My best advise here is to always best to stick to writing about what you know about […]
Word of Mouth Promotion
There really is no better or more effective form of promotion than word of mouth. You can talk all you want about search engines, direct mail or e-mail, word of mouth trumps them all. What better way to look good to a potential new customer than to have someone that they know who is not […]
Keyword Density and Your Pages
I sometimes get copy from my customers to put on their sites that sounds like it is just stuffed full of keywords that they are hoping that search engines will find them for. Unfortunately most of the time it sounds just like that and makes little of no sense to the human visitor. I tell […]
