Archive for the ‘ Web Design ’ Category
Best and Worst SEO Practices
Share 1. Keywords in title tag This is one of the most important places to have a keyword because what is written inside the title tag shows in search results as your page title. The title tag must be short (6 or 7 words at most) and the the keyword must be near the beginning. [...]
rel=canonical Tag in HTTP Header
Share on June 17, 2011, Google announced their support for rel=”canonical” HTTP headers. This can come in handy if you see duplication of content across different file types. It basically allows webmasters to assign a file a rel=canonical tag that references an HTML document as the real (canonical) URL. This tag will be very helpful [...]
Google PR Update on June 27, 2011 Confirmed
Share I just quickly checked some sites that I have managed or optimized before, 80% of them received a higher PR score on most of the web pages, 15% remains at the same level, and 5% got a step back. This is the first major Google PR update after the Panda update of their natural [...]
SEO Tips for Website Redesign
Share – Before doing any site redesign, ensure that you have carefully backed-up all of your website files, content and databases. – During your redesign, don’t bury any content that was previously bringing targeted search engine traffic too deeply within the site . Ensure that any important content that will be focused on the more [...]
Monitor Site Loading Speed in Google Analytics
Share You can measure the loading time of your pages and overall website inside Google Analytics now. The time your pages take to load and the overall responsiveness of your site are critical in terms of usability, conversions, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and PPC (Pay Per Click). So it is great to be able to [...]
Dynamic URL vs. Static URL
Share Why Static URLs are Best for SEO When attempting to improve a site’s ranking, it can be productive to examine the URL structure and do what you can to make it more SEO responsive. Namely, if the URLs are dynamic, it would be in your best interest to change them to static. Dynamic urls [...]
Quick Guidelines to Webmaster Tools
Share Webmaster tools from major search engines (like Bing and Google) all provide site owners and webmasters with several key site architecture and performance data. Below are some of the most important ones from a SEO perspective: – Sitemap and Indexing Status: (Site Configuration) It allows site owners to submit the .xml sitemap file to [...]
Three FREE Useful SEO tools for Firefox
Share Today I would like to share with you three Firefox add-on tools I use the most for SEO work. Of course the most popular SEO tool out there now is the SEOmoz Pro tool or the new name for it, “Open Site Explorer.” These three tools are different from it, they are more for [...]
Is Bing going to out-innovate Google?
Share Without a doubt, Google is one of the smartest, most innovative companies in the world, but in its core business — online search — it’s being routinely shown up by Microsoft’s third-place search engine, Bing. Bing is a surprisingly fast-moving, innovative product — and it’s forcing Google to play catch-up time and time again. [...]
Do You Want to become a SEO Specialist?
Share There are many internet marketing resources out there that give out tips and pointers about increasing your website’s rankings and traffic, getting back links, optimizing a PPC campaign, etc. Just do a Google search for “SEO” or “How to get my website ranked in Google” and you will get millions of results. Unfortunately, when [...]
