Articles tagged with seo
Don't be fooled by SEO promises
Companies may try to sell “search engine optimization” to website owners, making various promises about Google rankings. Don’t be taken in.
Submit your blog to directories
One way to promote you blog is to submit it to various online directories.
More local directories
To make your site as findable as possible for your local audience, there are many sites that offer free local business listings, including all the major search engines.
Book Review: Building Findable Websites
Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond is an extremely useful book which I recommend to web developers as well as site owners and web content writers.
Are your urls friendly?
I’m sure you’ve seen crazy long urls with query strings, search parameters, etc. attached to them. Sometimes, this is unavoidable and doesn’t cause problems. But whenever possible, it’s best to have logical, succinct, “friendly” urls.
Finding sites that link to yours
Using the “link:” operator in Google search returns a list of sites that link to yours, but it isn’t a full list. I look at a couple of other options for a more complete picture.
Add your listing to Google Local
Follow a few simple steps to add your business to Google Local search results.
Nifty new Google "Wonder Wheel"
Google has rolled out an interesting new tool that can be used for keyword research, and is a more intuitive, less data-heavy view than their other keyword analysis tools I’ve written about.
Google Trends and Google's Keywords Tool
I’ve mentioned Google’s Keywords Tool and Google Trends as ways to discover the keywords that people are searching for on Google. This post explains in more detail how to use these tools.
New Screencast: Add metadata to your site
Meta-data is behind-the-scenes information about a web page, and it is helpful for Search Engine Optimization. In a new screencast, I show how to add this data to your pages using Textpattern.
New ways to track your users
Google Analytics is a free and full-featured stats package, but how can you get more insight into what your visitors are up to on your site? Clicktale and CrazyEgg to the rescue!
How do I get my site on Google? Part II
After confirming that your site is in Google’s index, how can you get it to move up in the rankings?
Separating the cream from the cruft.