Search engines not only display content, they spider web pages, gathering information from your pages, then re-work all that information into a listing that searchers see when they’re looking for stuff — and the cycle is complete. When a person … Continue reading
Category Archives: SEO
Podcast Episode 21: Audience Segmentation
Today we talk about making your first website and audience segmentation — knowing your audience and what type of language they use (how they talk), and how to target your content to them.
How to use the anchor tag for better SEO
Recently I was asked how to best use hyperlinks to maximize SEO benefit to both the target and linking pages. First let me start with a refresher course on the HTML anchor element. The anchor (or “hyperlink”) element is used to provide … Continue reading
Google doesn’t use meta-keywords, except when it does
Hopefully if you’re reading this article you know a little about HTML and meta-tags. If not, let me know and I can write some “intro to” type articles. A long time ago in a web world far, far away when … Continue reading
This letter is to inform you that it’s time to send in your search engine registration
I just got en email about a domain that I own “expiring”. I use a domain registrar that costs me about $11/year/domain, which is a pretty good deal. The price tag for this “renewal”? $75. Yikes! That’s a LOT of … Continue reading
When to use HTTP 301 versus HTTP 404
File this one under “be careful for what you ask for”… At my day job a styleguide came across my desk which had what looked like a 3-level navigation menu. The first level was displayed in a horizontal bar, the … Continue reading
Big list of Ping Servers
Even the world’s best blog is nothing if no one can find it. Making sure your pages are indexed by search engines (and optimized for that purpose) is a good start, but you need to let some other guys know, … Continue reading