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20 Jun 0 -

On Page Optimization: What are the keys to On Page Optimization?

On page optimization of your website is critical for success when ranking your website. It doesn’t matter how many backlinks you build or how much content you have if you are hurting yourself with poor on page optimization. In fact, it is estimated that on page optimization accounts for 20% of ranking factors for Google. Here are some tips to make sure your website is a website that search engines will love.

07 Jan 0 -

Google SEO Tools

Looking for some more ways to improve your SEO tasks? Google may have just what you need to make your life easier. Here are 5 of my favorite Google SEO tools to improve your website:

04 Nov 0 -

IE Tester

As a web designer, there is nothing worse than discovering that your website looks great in IE7 but looks horrible in another version. To test your website in different versions of IE, check out IE Tester.

18 Jun 0 -

How Article Marketing Can Help You Dominate Google

Do you want to dominate Google and increase your brand exposure? Drip feed unique content to hundreds of blogs through ARTICLERANKS, a revolutionary new service that gives you hundreds of backlinks on real blogs that people actually read.

18 May 0 0

Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor

If you haven't already heard, Google is now counting site speed as a ranking factor for websites. There are two primary ways Google now measures speed: how a page responds to Googlebot and the load time which is measured by the Google Toolbar. If you want to find out how fast your site is loading, go to Google Webmaster tools and click on the "labs" section to see a page speed report.

22 Dec 0 0

Get 45 backlinks in under a minute

Want to get some free backlinks to your website quickly and easily? Go to http://www.megafoo.com/free-links/ and submit your homepage URL in the box. Your URL will then be submitted to 45 sites which includes Whois, Alexa, Robtex and other HTML validator sites.

17 Dec 0 0

Google introduces “Browser Size”

If you want to understand how visitors see your website on different browsers, check out Google's new tool called "Browser Size." Browser Size is based on a sample of data from visitors to Google. Based on a given point in the browser, the tool will tell you what percentage of users can see it.

09 Dec 0 0

Free backlinks

Looking for a way to promote your business and get backlinks for free? Check out Article Alley, an article syndication site which offers free articles from thousands of authors for use on websites. Authors can post free articles with keyword backlinks to the directory database without any membership and those looking for Free Content can choose from thousands of articles on a variety of topics.

19 Nov 0 0

How to increase your online sales

You have just created your online store with thousands of products, beautiful pictures and keyword rich descriptions. But for some reason, you aren’t converting as many sales as you would like. It could be the product you are selling, but more than likely, your store does not have optimum usability. Here are some ways to make your store more user-friendly and increase your online sales:

07 Nov 0 0

Web Design Tips: 6 favorite .htaccess tricks

.htaccess may be a simple ASCII text file, but it’s a powerful tool used on an Apache Web Server which can alter the configuration of your files and directories. With some simple rewrite rules in your .htaccess file, you can do many advanced features from creating custom error pages to setting timezones and emails.

07 Nov 0 0

Get on the 1st page of Google quickly

Do you want to get on the first page of Google quickly with a certain keyword? Of course! Everyone does. What many people don’t know, however, is that there are two main determining considerations you need to evaluate that will make or break your search engine optimization goals: # of competitors and strength of competitors.

07 Nov 0 0

Looking for free wordpress templates?

If you love blogging with Wordpress, then you are probably always on the hunt for the latest and greatest wordpress templates. Here are my two favorite resources for free wordpress templates that have some of the most creative and professional designs I have seen:

07 Nov 0 0

Want free unlimited backlinks?

Here is a great way to get free unlimited backlinks to your site. A growing number of blogs are using the "KeywordLuv" plugin that helps reward visitors who comment on their blog by separating their name from their keywords.

07 Nov 0 0

Debunking the Duplicate Content Myth

For years, webmasters have speculated that Google penalizes websites for duplicate content. Not so, states Greg Grothaus of Google’s Search Quality team who has posted a video on the duplicate content myth and gives ways on how to avoid ranking issues.

07 Nov 0 0

Does Google use the keywords meta tag in web ranking?

Does Google use the keywords meta tag in web ranking? In a word, no. According to Matt Cutts of Google, their search engine hasn't paid attention to meta keywords for over a decade because the tag became so abused with keyword stuffing.

07 Nov 0 0

Easy way to ping pages

Would you like an easy way to ping pages or backlinks you have created? Here is a quick and easy pinging hack that can speed up the process of your newly placed link being spidered.

07 Nov 0 0

Do you have the right “call to action” button?

Most people or companies who run a website want the users to do something more than view content. They may want them to buy a product, sign up for a newsletter, or download an e-book. But in order to do that, you need to have a call to action button.

07 Nov 0 1

Flash Mint Ready Made Templates

Do you want an eye-catching and interactive flash website, but don’t have the money or time to develop one? Check out FLASH MINT, which offers professionally designed flash templates for any business. These ready made templates are perfect for the small and medium business, online portfolios and photo galleries.

07 Nov 0 0

WordPress Plugin for Split Testing

If you are wondering how to split test your Wordpress site, search no longer. Lee Wills has developed the SES split testing plugin for Wordpress themes.

18 Aug 0 1

WordPress: Find Page’s Top Level Parent ID

Here's a short WordPress code that I wanted to share with you. I came across a little problem of displaying 2nd and 3d level of navigation in a sidebar no matter what page am I on. After googling for solution, I put together pieces of a puzzle and came up with a short code snippet.

18 Aug 0 0

Early Detection: How Social Media May Save The World

Posted by Danny Dover

It is a typical Tuesday afternoon in suburbia California. Jenny, a sixteen year old girl is taking a sick day from school. With a runny nose, she sits idly on her bed surfing Facebook. At the same time, 2,000 miles away in Seattle, a twenty-two year old ambitious college drop-out named Kevin is on Twitter complaining about his sore throat.

18 Aug 0 1

Link Building for Small eCommerce Sites

Posted by RobOusbey

Link building for small ecommerce sites can be amongst the toughest SEO challenges - but also the most common. I'd like to share a few bits of advice for anyone rising to the challenge - whether you're working in-house or as an agency.

11 Aug 0 0

New Google Search Index

Looks like Google is creating a NEW Google search index which includes crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. Based on what Matt Cutts has stated, this could give less credibility to page rank as it will crawl the web more comprehensively.

11 Aug 0 2

Increase your Sales Conversions with your Website

Have you had a decline in sales from your PPC campaign? Perhaps it’s because your distance to a sale is too long. In today’s world, consumers have a “want it now” mentality and the longer it takes your visitors to find their desired products, the less likely they will stick around. Here are 10 ways to shorten the distance and increase conversion:

07 Aug 0 0

Should I use a dark web design?

Dark web designs today have become popular because they eminate a classy and elegant feel. However, almost 50% of people do not like dark web designs because of a lack of readability. Although dark designs can have a striking visual impact, many readers don't like reading light text on a dark background because it strains their eyes. Here are a few tips to make your next dark website design appeal to a broader audience.

04 Aug 0 0

Easy way to get hundreds of backlinks for free

Content may be king in the Google world, but we all know that quality backlinks are equally important. But getting those backlinks can sometimes be tedious and downright overwhelming. But I have recently discovered a system where you can get quality backlinks for free by writing just one article on any niche you want.

02 Aug 0 4

5 of my favorite WordPress Plugins

If you are like me, then you probably enjoying finding and installing the latest and greatest Wordpress plugins to give more functionality to your site. There are thousands of Wordpress plugins, but here are five of my favorites:

22 Jul 0 4

WordPress Contact Form Plugins

Looking for a robust contact form for your Wordpress blog? Here are 3 of my favorites: Contact Form 7: A powerful plugin which allows you to manage multiple contact forms. The form also supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, and Akismet spam filtering. Available in over 40 languages.

20 Jul 0 1

Is your site “click” friendly?

Every person at one time or another has run into the “unnecessary click syndrome” when visiting a website. Whether it’s a lack of common sense, developer apathy, or a simple oversight, superfluous clicking can have a negative impact on conversion rates and quite simply, irritate the heck out of the user.

20 Jul 0 1

SEO Tips: Keyword Trends

If you want to get the full skinny on your keywords and improve your opportunities for SEO and promotion, check out these sources for investigating the latest trends on what people are searching for.