Category Archives: Web Development
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Is A Hyphenated Domain Name Bad For SEO?
Should you buy a hyphenated domain name? In many cases, people are unable to buy an exact match domain name but the hyphenated one is available. Depending on your long term goals, a hyphenated domain (such as example-domain.com instead of exampledomain.com) can do a lot for your business, but severely …
By Patrick Hare
September 26, 2011
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What Questions To Ask Your SEO Firm
I have to say that when I recently read this article I was a little bit annoyed and elated at the same time. I quickly recalled all of the search engine optimization work I did for a search engine optimization client. One of the most difficult keyword phrases I worked …
By Bill Hartzer
September 25, 2011
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Mobilizing Your Site For Added Traffic
A few weeks ago, I installed a new WordPress plugin on this site that would enable visitors on mobile devices to find their experience here worthwhile and make it more likely they would stick around on their visit, perhaps engage by leaving a comment, and maybe even return again. The …
By Neville Hobson
July 21, 2010
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Approaching Modern Web Development And SEO
Are you still chasing crap links around? Doing PageRank sculpting or being fanatical over meta data? Then methinks you should stick around and read this post as you could be stuck somewhere circa 2007 in your SEO efforts. A few things prompted this post; from a chat with fellow warriors, …
By David Harry
July 8, 2010
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Optimizing Your Local Site Keyword Selection
Here we will touch on how to use a number of metrics in order to finalize local keyword selection for your website. During the last few posts I have reviewed how to generate keyword ideas, and sort them by traffic volume using Google’s Keyword Research Tool.
By Jeff Howard
June 10, 2010
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Developing An SEO Strategy For Franchise Groups
While working at People To My Site, I’ve had the opportunity to work with many companies in the franchise business. Let me tell you, working with a platform of franchisees is a whole different animal than normal SEO. SEO campaigns for large groups of franchisees requires a totally different mindset, …
By Jacob Stoops
May 27, 2010
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Benchmarking And Testing Your SEO Strategy
How to measure SEO success Recently we learned that most SEOs still consider that rankings are a performance indicator, just less of a value than in the past. Or at least according to a recent poll we held. This all begged the question, what ARE the metrics of measuring SEO …
By David Harry
April 29, 2010
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Remember To Start Small When Optimizing Your Websites
I generally implement my optimization campaigns in two phases. The first phase is a quick run through to get as many of the site pages “search engine friendly” as possible. The second is a much more thorough process that provides a complete optimization for each page. Quick process can often …
By Stoney De Geyter
April 7, 2010
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Understanding The Anatomy Of Link Building
Link Analysis Progression I said in my last post that each link is essentially a vote for the page that’s being linked to. That, essentially, was the original link analysis factors. Things have come a long way since then. Today’s link analysis factors are far more complex. Over the years …
By Stoney De Geyter
March 25, 2010
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Improve Site Performance With YSlow
If you haven’t already heard, Yahoo! has released YSlow for Firebug, a Firefox plugin that analyzes your site for ways to speed things up in terms of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
By Sean Corfield
March 15, 2010
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