Everyone knows what a search engine is. Well, my 81 year old mom has a little trouble with the concept but pretty much everyone who has surfed the internet knows what Google and Yahoo are. By the same token, a lot of people know what SEO is or what it means to optimize a website [...]
You’d think a guy named Norman Sheppard with a blog at normansheppard.com could get the number one spot for his own name. Alas, I got the six but I’m stuck at number two. My competition? A PDF. Granted, 75 year old Professor Norman Sheppard is a pioneer in his field and this site is more [...]
On site SEO and web design go hand in hand especially in the world of internet marketing. You can have a great site design that intices the viewer towards the desired objective be it clicking on an ad or subscribing to your feed or buying your latest greatest ebook however, if your not getting traffic [...]
On site seo (Search Engine Optimization) is very simple, does not take much effort and should be done if you intend to rank well in the search engine results pages. If you are using WordPress it is very easy however if you make your own websites or use a template system that does not have [...]
A nofollow link is one that will not be followed by a search engine robot/spider. This is accomplished by placing the rel=”nofollow” attribute in an anchor tag. This can be useful when you are optimizing a website and do not want to give the destination web page credit for the backlink. However, in many cases [...]
Top listings at Google are the subject, cause and effect of the new bread of obsessive compulsive disorders. Fortunes made and lost over a single word. I remember back when you could just type a word seven hundred times on a page and watch it jump up three pages at Google overnight (not that I [...]