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October 9, 2006 In my position as a consultant on SEO, I seem to be getting an increase in the amount of customers asking why their designer had not considered the changes I suggest. Some of these questions are usually followed by «that jerk. I’ve been dealing with his crap for too long.» So are […]
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October 7, 2006 I recently read forum post on the three signs of a nightmare client, and was thinking, “wow, I get a lot of problems from customers wanting too much for too little.” I thought it would be a good idea to talk about time and return. It starts with the submission. Google is […]
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October 7, 2006 We shall now go into the actual code of your site. «Code» is used loosely here as HTML is actually a mark-up language, but we aren’t here to talk that. HTML is the language used to create your website. Even if you have a software that makes a site in a strictly […]
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October 9, 2006 In creating a website we try to desperately to make something aesthetically pleasing, and there are so many methods to that madness. But the prettier the page, often means the more code we have to implement. More code equals less SEO friendly. Some things, in fact, will create a page that is […]
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October 9, 2006 When optimizing a site, we are faced with many daunting tasks. It’s hard enough to generally optimize a page for «the search engines.» But when we say «the search engine,» what are we talking about. Obviously Google, Yahoo!, and MSN carry many differences, so optimizing for one would not necessarily yield results […]
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October 9, 2006 I seem to be in a real «talk about marketing» mood this week. To continue with this theme, I want to take a small amount of time to discuss marketing on forums. Forums, in my opinion, can provide some of the best information. You can ask a question (which is rare because […]
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October 9, 2006 Optimizing a website is only part of the SEO / SEM process. Once a site is optimized for the search engines, you still have to consider «old-fashioned» ways of marketing your product or service. Before the Internet, we used magazines, billboards, T.V. commercials and endorsements, among other creative ways to advertise. The […]
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October 6, 2006 I know there is a lot on this blog, but it just started and I want to get a lot of the basics on here so we can start to get into the good stuff. I’m also gonna try to categorize the basics so that we can reference them as needed. So […]
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October 9, 2006 After reading my last post on CSS and SEO, a buddy of mine asked for a more detailed reason on what exactly about CSS will reduce the amount of code. I figure, «hey, I got a blog. Might as well explain it here.» Do yourself a favor and read the original post, […]
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October 9, 2006 Link popularity is a very important aspect of SEO and website promotion. It not only brings traffic to your site, but also helps the validity of your website’s importance in the eyes of Google and other search engines. There is, however, a big no no in the industry. Link farms. Before reading […]