2013
Bad Site Design Won t Get Your Site Penalized by Google
The difference between a Google Penalty and having your search engine rankings go down. Seems as though there are a lot of people out there that don t know the difference, and in this blog post I clear this up.
Easter Bunny Kicked Out of PRWeb Press Release Web Site
The Easter Bunny has officially been kicked out of PRWeb, the popular press release web site. According to Standing Dog’s latest blog post, the Easter Bunny could not be included in a recent press release due to the fact that the Easter Bunny is parodic.
2012
Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk Hacked, Hosting Malware on Site
It looks like Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk, the search engine for domain names, has been hacked, and apparently is hosting malware on their web site. These messages started appearing to visitors of both Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk within the past 24 hours, and I have verified that users are still getting these messages.
How to Diversify the Anchor Text of Links to Your Web Site
Some of the latest Google algorithm changes involves the diversity of anchor text links that point to a web site or one particular web page. If you have too much of one keyword phrase in the anchor text, which tends to be around 60 percent or higher, there will be issues.
The Art of Writing Effective Title Tags
One of the most basic SEO practices that can go a very long way in helping your site gain in Search Engine Rankings and add validity is the Title Tags. Here is how to write an effective title tag.
2011
More Android Users Looking for Jobs than iPhone Users
According to data released by LinkUp, 20 percent of job seekers use their mobile devices to look for jobs. What is interesting is that 79.7% of visitors to the LinkUp web site used an Android device to find jobs. Surprisingly, however, Apple iPhone usage fell from dominating last year’s first quarter numbers at 62.1%, down to 12.3% in Q1 2011. Blac
2010
Search Engine Optimization - How you can Identify Search Engine Ranking Problems with Your Website
I often speak to individuals who declare that they are struggling from poor search engine rankings. Regardless of what you do, you simply can t discover your web site in Google–and sometimes it’s not just the keywords the websites is targeting, the website can t be discovered for the company’s name. In any situation, the website is definitely suffe
Siteminis Launches Mobile Commerce Solution
Siteminis, a developer of internet-based mobile commerce software solutions, has spent more than three years of research, development, and testing with major retailers and finally launched their patented Mobile Web Solution, one of the first mobile platforms that allows companies to easily deploy one site instead of multiple sites for each type of
What is the Average Load Speed of Your Website?
I am pretty certain that after reading the title of this post that you thought about the speed of your site but could not pin it to a precise number because it is a metric you never worry about. Well, it is time to start paying attention to this site metric, because it may be a factor in your rankings in Google in 2010.
2009
Search Engine Optimization Tip 32: Keywords that Convert
Here is to find your best converting keywords that have traffic but are not ranked well. This is where you can focus your search engine optimization efforts and improve your web site bottom line quickly.
Freedom Tower in NYC gets name change
The agency that owns the site says that the signature 1,776-foot skyscraper replacing the towers destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, will be known as One World Trade Center.
SEO Web Site Review: Water Filter Corner
This quarter s SEO Web site review selection is very interesting, and should be useful to many readers. Their Web site recently launched, and like many new sites, has several elements that need to be corrected to attain success in the SERPs.
2008
Search Engine Optimization Tip 17: Review Your Links
For search engine optimization tip number seventeen, let us talk about the links to your site and the overall reputation that you have already built up.
Search Engine Optimization Tip 17: Review Your Links
For search engine optimization tip number seventeen, let us talk about the current links to your site and the overall reputation that you have already built up.
Vizion Interactive Releases SEO Audit Document
Organizing your SEO audit will make sure that you are requesting the same information from each search engine optimization company or SEO consultant. After the SEO audit, you should have reasonable consensus on how well your web site is optimized for the search engines.
Twitter Caught Spamming Google
I noticed recently that twitter.com has recently made a change to their site that is causing them to spam Google and the other search engines by allowing duplicate content to get indexed by the search engine spiders.
How To Create Content They Will Keep Coming Back For
Once the slick look of your site draws in readers, it is the quality content that will keep them coming back for more. Following are a few things I hae learned in building a readership based on good content.
Sk-rt Social Network Rebrands as Kirtsy, Fails to Follow SEO Best Practices
Sk*rt, the social network geared towards women, has rebranded as Kirtsy. The only problem is that they did not redirect the site properly.
Websites Celebrating Earth Day 2008
I thought I would point out some of the best Earth Day blog posts as well as the sites that have done something on their site to help promote Earth Day 2008.
Web site makes suing easy
A new Web site promising to simplify the lawsuit process by pairing lawyers and potential litigants is a bad idea. Legal Newsline reported that critics say the SueEasy Web site encourages people to be litigious.
Digg Down Today and Other Social Media Revelations
For many years now, I have always been a fan of creating custom, unique 404 error pages. I have also, at the same time, been rather annoyed that a site as large as Digg can consistently serve up an error page like the one below.
Google Tests Site Links Search with Microsoft
From what I can tell, and from the short amount of testing that I have done, the search box appears when you search for Microsoft at Google.com. It looks to me that it is nothing but a Google custom search engine, or simply a site: command search of the microsoft.com domain, which includes all of their subdomains.
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