Tips # 1: If you use drop-down menus on your pages, be sure to include actual HTML links to your interior pages as well. If you rely on your drop-down menus to direct the spiders to other pages on your site, you may be very disappointed when the pages aren’t indexed. Tips # 2 : Do you know […]
Did you know that it is possible to rank visibly higher in the search engines with a PR of 5 than it is with a PR of 8? It’s true! Don’t obsesse over Page Rank. Focus on building true relevancy.
In your last or current project, are you creating content that your visitor will be GLAD that they found? It’s good to examine our own work from time to time. Give it some thought and be brutally honest with yourself. Are you creating that immediately assists in filling a specific search for information. -Content of true merit. -Something useful.
For link text coming into your Web site, try and focus on you your researched phrase 80% of the time and allow for variance of synonyms about 20 % of the time. Many times, people only focus on building links to their home page. Don’t forget to deep link to valuable content within your site
Go through your site and look for common statements like: Click here for a quote, or Click here for more information. These are areas where you can include keyword phrases. For example, Click here for a mortgage loan quote, or Click here for more graphic arts information. Be sure to make the entire sentence a
Here is a free Web page analyzer to test exactly how fast your page is at various speeds. This tip comes from Martin Preece whom you may know from our online instructional chats. Thank you Martin, it works very nicely. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/index.html
The first 3 things to do if you’re new to Twitter are: 1. Upload your author photo. Profiles without photos are lame. 2. Upload your 140 character author bio. 3. Engage & become involved in the conversation that is Twitter. This is the fastest way to attract Followers to your Twitter profile. Now every time
Do you have a robots.txt file set up on your server? Here’s what Google says in their Webmaster Guidelines: -Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it’s current for your site so that you don’t accidentally block the Googlebot crawler. Visit http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html to learn