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 […]
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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
