Stock.Xchng, while not really software, is a tool I use for my Web design work all the time. It’s a stock photography and images site, and the best thing about most of the images? They are free
One of the common complaints about CSS designs is that they are “too boxy”. And one solution is to create boxes that have rounded corners – still boxes, but a little less rigid. While it’s not very hard to create rounded corners with CSS why do it by hand when you can use a tool like Spiffy Corners to build the CSS for you?
One of the key things to remember when developing your web-site presence is to always evaluate your competition. See what’s working for them; how they market their products and services, and even evaluate their KEYWORD and DISCRIPTION tags. The key points of using these two Meta Tags, is optimization! Evaluate your Keywords: look at your [...]
Duplicate content is one of the problems that we regularly come across as part of the search engine optimization services we offer. If the search engines determine your site contains similar content, this may result in penalties and even exclusion from the search engines. Fortunately it’s a problem that is easily rectified. Your primary weapon [...]
1) Title Tag – The title tag is the most powerful on-site SEO technique you have, so use it creatively! What you place in the title tag should only be one thing, the exact keyword you used for the web page that you are trying to optimize. Every single web page should have it’s own [...]
The Cold Hard Facts?.. One of the most important factors in being successful in your business is to learn how to rank high in the search engines. It has been said that the search engines can account for as much as 95% of all the traffic to your website! If you fail to take advantage [...]
The following are a list of mistakes can ensure that your site maintains a low ranking with the search engines. Avoid at all costs. * Specifying no title for your page * I cannot stress how important the title of a web page is. Failing to specify a descriptive, keyword optimized title will do untold [...]
The robots.txt file is an exclusion standard required by all web crawlers/robots to tell them what files and directories that you want them to stay OUT of on your site. Not all crawlers/bots follow the exclusion standard and will continue crawling your site anyway. I like to call them “Bad Bots” or trespassers. We block [...]
Let’s talk about what keyword density is and how to improve your keyword density on your web site. To improve your keyword density ratio there are three parts that we will need address. Part 1: Content When it comes to the Search Engines content is king! Yes king! Search Engines want web sites that are [...]
First let’s start with definitions: SEO: Search Engine Optimization, SFO: Search Friendly Optimization. These two things are what most webmasters have trouble balancing. These things seem to always be on opposite ends. On one hand you have to make sure search engines can crawl your website without any problems. On the other you have to [...]
