Yesterday, I got stuck in a traffic jam. It wasn’t the first time and unfortunately won’t be the last time! 5 miles of bright beaming red tail lights flickering in my eyes. Just the thought of it makes me kind of nauseas. Especially, when all I was trying to do was go to the grocery [...]
Over the past couple of months it has been quite noticeable that the amount of time and effort that is going into website promotion is rapidly rising and therefore so is the associated cost of keeping ahead of the competition. More and more people are devoting more and more time to website promotion and it [...]
What once many people thought they had a penalty, is now being called the Sandbox Effect and is causing new web sites not to rank very well in the search results of Google, not even for the least competitive phrases. Meaning that a filter is being placed on new web sites and cannot rank very [...]
Would you like a checklist of the important steps to take in optimizing a web site? Well, here it is: 1. Use a keyword research tool to find profitable phrases (i.e. those that are actually being searched for). 2. Build each page optimized for a single keyword phrase. Also sprinkle in some secondary keywords relevant [...]
SEO consultants will tell you that you need to be in the Top 30 or you can pretty much give up any hope of getting a visitor to your web site. Yes, there is truth in that Top 30 goal. Occasionally, a potential customer will make his or her way to the #30 position in [...]
In this third article, we continue to dig into the patent application of Google regarding the method used to rank sites in search results. Interestingly, Google asserts in the application that it "might" consider user data as a factor in organizing search results. What Is User Data? Without being rude, you should already know what [...]
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. You may be the most intelligent writer in the world, and have breaking information, which, if people actually read it, would benefit them and their business. Problem: most, if not all, publishers of articles don’t have the time to read the whole article unless they are “captured” [...]
Keyword Selection The most important component of search engine optimization is keyword selection. Search engines use key words and phrases to find and rank websites. The crawler or spider-based search engines, so called because they sift through websites and add them to their databases, sort through millions of websites by following an algorithm, or set [...]
If you know anything about website design, or anything about the Internet in general, then you have probably heard of flash. There are actually lots of websites and advertisements online that utilize flash and some web designers are claiming that Flash is the future of the Internet and web design. However, currently there are more [...]
An automated accessibility tool is a piece of software which can test a web page, or even an entire website, for accessibility. Automated accessibility tools are useful because they can save you a huge amount of time. Don’t want to check images for alt text on each and every page on your website? Run the [...]
