All of the articles contained in this category are about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the practice of helping websites appear more prominently in search engines such as Google and Bing. Most of these articles are around the more technical parts of SEO, especially SEO for Wordpress, but you will also find articles about linkbuilding, social media for SEO, and Microsoft Excel for SEOs.
I was trained as a web developer. Therefore, often many of the technical on-site details and issues get passed on to me, because I have the technical knowledge. Here’s a free tip: if you don’t know the answer and you don’t have anyone to ask, search for it. This happens with sitemaps around my office. […]
Sitemap (n): A file placed on your web server, in XML format, to alert search engines to a website’s existing pages. Submitted manually to search engines using Webmaster Tools. I just made up that definition, but it is also deceptive. I’ve been in web development for about 5 years, and I still hate sitemaps. At […]
Today I’ve been thinking about brand SEO (again) and how branding your site may be good for SEO purposes as well, for ranking important keywords even. Most of my thinking has come about in the past week, after a webinar given by SEOmoz a week and a half ago. Today I also watched a WhiteBoard […]
Do you ever long for the days of 1950’s or 1960’s America, where most Americans lived in small towns, walked to the corner store for groceries, knew their neighbors across the white picket fence, and used word-of-mouth as their gauge for knowing where to eat and who to do business with? I think we’re heading […]
I recently saw an article advertising the linkbuilding conference that I am attending next month in London, given by Distilled. The title of the article was “Do you have enough links?” which was intended to get at the idea that you can never have too many links.
What factors affect Domain Trust for websites? Is Domain Trust becoming increasingly important? Read here for four factors that influence domain trust.
Linkbuilding is one of the hard and most tedious tasks of SEO work. I have to be honest with you: I usually hate building links. I hate the low response rates, the uncertainty of link strategies, and the tediousness of pounding through lots (tens and hundreds) in a short time period. I’d much rather be […]
Once upon a time, in a land far far away…
This is the way fairytales or deep epic stories begin usually, right? Well this is neither. The far, far away bit is true, though.
I’m talking about the Distilled Linkbuilding Conference that is being held in London, England on March 18th.
Well, today was an interesting day in my SEO world. After an eye appointment this morning (unrelated to SEO, obviously, though it did make seeing my screen a bit harder), I went into work and started firing off linkbuilding emails that were ready to go out. So far, so good (except I still had trouble […]
Today at work I began to have an epiphany. Does that sentence even make sense? I’m not really sure. Anyways, a coworker and I were talking about our projects going on outside of our “normal” SEO jobs. He is putting together a website for local music venues, where he hopes to eventually drive enough traffic […]
As this is my first post on Wordpress, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is John. This is my website.