I‘ve done a post before where I talked about creating SEO friendly URLs with WordPress but this is something a bit different. For some people that have quite a few posts already with their WordPress blog it’s tough to just completely change your URL structure. Even with 20-30 posts you easily have most of those [...] Read more – ‘How to change your permalink structure and not kill your page rank’.
Search Engine Strategies – San Jose 2008 Whew, so the first day of Search Engine Strategies is finally complete. What a crazy day, I have so much in my brain right now it’s almost overwhelming. There are so many things I can apply to what I am doing currently, let alone what I haven’t already [...] Read more – ‘Day 1 of Search Engine Strategies – San Jose 2008’.
Can Cuil play with the Big Boys? I have mentioned a site I visit regularly quite a few times on my blog. It’s called SEOmoz. Masterminded by Rand Fishkin and his crew they come up with some awesome info about SEO as a whole. Anyway, after my post yesterday I thought maybe I was a [...] Read more – ‘Cuil compared to Google, Yahoo!, MSN(Live) & ASK’.
Let’s face it Cuil sucks. Do a search for anything you’re interested in… I’ll guarantee that the images that show up next to your results make no sense. Also, what’s with changing the flow of how the results show up. The top 3 search engines all serve up their results the exact same. Why? Because [...] Read more – ‘Cuil is not Cool…’.
If you follow my blog regularly you noticed last night I decided I would start featuring WordPress themes on my blog. Particularly ones I felt like were decent, functional and professional looking wordpress themes. I wrote a post last night featuring the Aesma Pro WordPress Theme Today I was going through my Google Analytics account [...] Read more – ‘Keyword – Pro WordPress Theme & Pro WordPress Themes’.
I received an email newsletter today from DMnews and it had an interesting story. Adobe is Partnering with the top search engine dawgs to do something pretty incredible. If you know about SEO you know that flash isn’t the most “SEO friendly” My first thought was, “How would you even go about doing that?” You [...] Read more – ‘Adobe partners with Google, Yahoo for improved flash search’.
It’s time to create some SEO friendly URL’s! Woo Hoo! Lately, I have noticed quite a few blogs/sites that are not taking advantage of the permalink feature in WordPress. With how competitive it’s getting to be out there SEO wise, every little bit helps. Lets take this post I am writing right now as an [...] Read more – ‘Creating SEO friendly URL’s using WordPress’.
This post is from SEOmoz.org and when is comes to all things SEO these guys really know their stuff. Pretty basic stuff but surprisingly most people don’t follow a lot of these tactics… A comprehensive, in-depth list of blog-specific marketing strategies designed to drive traffic from search engines, referrals and brand building. Includes descriptions of [...] Read more – ‘21 Tactics to Improve Blog Traffic’.
Ok ok ok… this isn’t the real reason but this is better then any other theory. Apperantly, Microsoft Live Search admitted to being too “strict” on websites and how they were indexed. They are in the process of making the algorithm no so tough on websites. Quote from a Microsoft Represenative: The Live Search team [...] Read more – ‘Why Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo! so bad…’.
After writing my previous article it got me thinking. A few days ago I was asked a common question by 2 of my web design clients. “Hey, now that the site is up and going why am I not showing up in the search engines?” It’s hard to answer because how do you explain everything [...] Read more – ‘PPC vs. SEO’.
In a previous post I mentioned a site that I visit almost daily. It’s called SEOmoz.org I subscribe to their blog’s RSS Feed because they always have great content about SEO tips and tricks. They offer a premium membership ($49.95 a Month) to have access to all of their tools, content, tips and so on. [...] Read more – ‘Just wanted to share some great SEO tools…’.
I came across an article on Entrepreneur.com today about “Vlogging.” It’s blogging with video marketing tied in. Cool name and everything but is it really a new term or just a way of marketing thats been around for years. Blogs are hot. Vlogs are hotter. A vlog, or video blog, is the newest way to [...] Read more – ‘Vlogs, Vlogging? Video Blogging…’.
