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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Images
[2011-11-29] Search engine optimization for images is commonly overlooked by many businesses and organizations trying to optimize their websites. For SEO in general, it is always important to keep in mind that you should not only be optimizing for the search engines, but you should also be optimizing for the user's experience. Read more to discover 10 ways that you can optimize images for users and search engines.
The Latest Google Algorithm Update
[2011-11-11] A lot of people have been talking about the lastest Google Algorithm update, now being called the Freshness Update. But what's all the hullabaloo about?
How to Create an Effective Custom 404 Page
[2011-10-21] Last week I shared a checklist of the SEO tasks for new websites and one of the items on the list was to ensure that you have a custom 404 page when visitors come across an error on your website.
More Webmaster Support With The New Google Analytics Premium
[2011-10-03] In an attempt to provide webmaster with more insights and support, Google launched a paid version of Google Analytics- Google Analytics Premium. For a flat rate annual fee, the new analytics will process higher volumes of page views and also will provide additional support.
Keyword Research – Common Mistakes
[2011-09-23] When you start working on your SEO strategy, the most important decision you'll have to make is what keywords you will target.
Tips On How To Improve Rank In Bing
[2011-09-09] In a recent interview by Eric Enge, Bing's Sr. Product Manager, Duane Forrester highlighted important pointers on how your website and pages can rank high in Bing's search results "in my view the priorities for websites are content, social media and link building, in that order."
Tracking Your Social Media Activity with Analytics
[2011-08-23] For years you've benefited from Google's analytics to track the activity on your website.
Adding Google +1 Buttons To Your Website
[2011-08-10] The buzz about Google + continues with it being the fastest growing social network in history. It reached 25 million users in weeks compared to Facebook which took years.
Three Checks To Do Before Your Optimized Site is Ready to Go Live
[2011-07-27] When you deal with big projects, it is often easy to overlook small things along the way. It's not that anyone is cutting corners, but rather some small detail gets overlooked. Sometimes even the smallest details can matter a great deal!
Does Your Website Need A Content Audit?
[2011-07-14] I guesstimate that 90% or more of all active websites and blogs on the Internet could use a content audit RIGHT NOW. And I bet your site could benefit from one as well.
+1 Metrics in Google Webmaster Tools
[2011-06-30] While goofing off in Google Webmaster Tools this afternoon, I was transitioning between clients dashboards when I recognized the newest addition in Webmaster Tools offerings, +1 Metrics.
PDF to HTML5 conversion - 2 ways to display text in HTML
[2011-06-17] One of our key considerations with PDF to HTML conversion was the quality of the text. We have seen too many attempts which just generate a bitmap screenshot of the page and displays that. We wanted proper text so you could zoom in properly and have compact HTML files.
Hello Google's New +1 Button Feature
[2011-06-02] We've all seen Google's +1 button floating around the web allowing signed-in Google users to recommend content that they deem useful and share it with their friends and contacts. And up until yesterday the +1 button was only offered on search results pages, but now Google has taken the social plunge even further and offers the +1 button to web pages.
Post Panda Tips And Suggestions For Your Site
[2011-05-11] Since the release of Google's Panda algorithm update in February, Webmaster's have been attempting to determine what it will take to get their websites back to their former rankings.
Yahoo Releases Search BOSS 2
[2011-04-26] Search engines are complex machines with a variety of moving parts. After all, we've seen that - despite no longer running their own algorithm or ads - Yahoo has remained the second most popular search site on the web. This is thanks to a number of other services they offer, including Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Dating, Yahoo Mail, and a number of other integrated sites. Further, Yahoo's powerful index of sites and search data has an appeal all its own.
How To Optimize for Google 2011
[2011-04-13] It has been nearly 3 years since I wrote my original 3 part series on "How to Optimize for Google". Since writing that article some things have certainly changed, while others have remained exactly the same.
2011 AdWords API Workshop
[2011-04-01] The AdWords API team had a busy March as they traveled to London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Hamburg and back to New York, discussing the latest changes to the AdWords API. I attended the last stop in New York which turned out to be a great one day event at Google's New York office with the main AdWords API guys all there (including the guy who has saved me many times in the forums, @EricKoleda).
Google Becomes A SharePoint Competitor
[2011-03-18] Several months ago, I wrote about automating Google Sites using Apps Script. I have been trying to take a look at all of the services available in Apps Script, and I really wanted to play with the UI components. Previously, the UI components were tied to Google Docs and you could not use the UI components directly on a page.
How Do You Have Rounded-edge HTML Form Text Input Boxes?
[2011-03-04] I was cruising around on the Web last night and came across a Web site that has cool rounded edges on its text input boxes within its search forms. Super cool. How do they do that? All of my HTML forms end up with the same boring square edges...
Don’t Let Duplicate Pages and Bad URLs Destroy Your SEO: Kill It Dead!
[2011-02-18] This series is pulled from a presentation given at SMX East. Part I of this series covered the problems duplicate content creates. Part II covered some of the causes of duplicate content. This post covers some of the solutions that will help you fix your duplicate content problems.
How To Better Understand the PDF Format
[2011-02-02] Form XObjects (not be confused with forms which are buttons, checkboxes, buttons, etc) are an advanced feature of the PDF file format. They can be thought of as sub-rountines (or even mini-PDFs) which are used on the main PDF display.
How To Make JPedal Your Default PDF Viewer
[2011-01-21] Once java is installed on your machine (see previous post), you can setup JPedal. How you setup your directory structure is up to yourself. I placed the JPedal jar file and associated libraries in /home/feq/programs/jpedal (feq is a name I made up on my computer). Provided you place the correct paths in the shell script, it doesn't matter where these files go.
Google Could Phase Out PageRank Algorithm
[2011-01-07] Google's PageRank algorithm could become obsolete very soon with Google losing the exclusive patent to the system some time this year. The PageRank technology was created by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while still attending Stanford University, which actually owns the patent to PageRank. Google, however, has the exclusive licensing rights to it until 2011 and come 2017 the patent will expire completely.
How To Remove Duplicate Content From Your Site
[2010-12-21] Yeah, yeah, the search engines are getting smarter about duplicate content… blah, blah, blah. It's no longer the problem it once was… yada, yada, yada. Google will get it all sorted out for you. Whatevs.
Why Are Internal Link Hubs Important?
[2010-12-10] I use the term internal link hub and link nexus here with some frequency, but I haven't actually done a post to explain them, to show how/why I feel they are important, and to show how to use them to your advantage. This post should solve that problem.
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