In my last post, I talked a lot about some of the capabilities of the actual WordPress platform when it comes to SEO. Sure, WordPress has several built in tools that can help you out in the SERPs, however these tools are nowhere near the potential power of your WordPress website. WordPress plugins are the [...]
During my experience as a website developer and SEO technician, I have never found anything quite like WordPress. Not only for its ease of use, but also for its capabilities to help your website gain spots in the search rankings. For those who don’t know, WordPress is a powerful blogging software (or platform) which makes [...]
I mentioned in a previous post that I am working on a new website for my mother’s craft website www.sweetdreamspatterns.com. In order to do this, I have been doing a lot of research this last week about possible open source solutions for this ecommerce website. The current site was built by myself in 2003 using [...]
The SEO community is buzzing with Google’s latest announcement that they do not use META keywords to determine website rankings. This doesn’t come as a shock to most of us out there who have tried “keyword stuffing” in the past and had no results. According to Google’s Webmaster Blog Google doesn’t use the “keywords” meta [...]
I have compiled this list of 10 of the most common SEO mistakes I have noticed over my years of experience. Make sure to avoid these mistakes and you shouldn’t have any trouble getting decent rankings. Flash Avoid building your website completely in Flash. Search engine spiders cannot read flash content just like they cannot [...]
In the last post, I talked about how to find keywords phrases that people are searching for as well as the possibility of being competitive for. The next step in website optimization is one of the most important: Title Tag structure. For those who aren’t familiar with HTML, the title tags can be found in [...]
Let’s talk about the very basics of SEO for a minute. When you have a new site that you need to do some optimization for, what is the first thing that you need to do? The title of this post gives it away. You need to research your keywords. This means, you need to decide [...]
I just took a quiz over at DarkGreySEO.com, in which they determine, based on you are willing to do as an SEO, if you are a Black Hat, White Hat, or Grey Hat. And the results? Dark Grey SEO Pushing the boundaries to the maximum minus one fraction, your SEO campaign is as hard as [...]
Through this magical journey of SEO, I will have case studies using some of the websites that I currently hold dominion over in terms of SEO. Three of the sites I will mention right now (as well as hoping that some of you will link back to). Paternity DNA Testing StrictlyDNA.com is a website that [...]
So, i’ve been looking for something to do with this website that will give this blog some more attention while actually giving out some useful tips and whatnot. I feel that the most qualified thing I possibly write about would be different SEO strategy. I do work for an internet marketing company as the manager [...]
