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On Page SEO Dead? Long Live Relevance!

Picturesque — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:25:07 +0000

There have been a number of posts lately about a trend we’ve already seen as well. On page changes such as H1 tags, bolding text, rearranging content, etc are having little impact on ranking. One example is this forum post. It illustrates what we’ve been touting for years. Provide quality content, have links from related [...]

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SWI and Returns Policy

Picturesque — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:22:48 +0000

Shopping While Intoxicated (SWI) is reported to be on the rise. If you sell online, now is a good time to review your return policy.

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+1 Button Does More

Picturesque — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:14:09 +0000

Two new features for the +1 button make it a time saver for sharing. Just click the +1 on any site (including your own) and it allows you to instantly post it, sharing it with your circles of friends. A snippet feature is also added showing content from the page. Web masters can control what [...]

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Why Bother Blogging On SEO

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:50:27 +0000

I got a chuckle out of a post at http://www.johnon.com/762/bloggin-on-seo.html and had to respond. We’ll see if it’s approved. I’m not certain if John Andrews is being a bit sarcastic or just really frustrated with stupidity. I do think that people need to think about what they are reading online and think about it prior [...]

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Hot Tracking

Picturesque — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:35:54 +0000

Watching how users interact with your site can lead to improve site design which leads to increased sales. You can see how users interact with your site using a tool such as Mouseflow. We’ve been using it on a number of ecommerce sites and have learned things we never would have been able to learn [...]

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What Site Was Blocked the Most?

Picturesque — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:54:51 +0000

OpenDNS is used by 1% of the Wordwide Internet users. That’s over 30 billion DNS queries in just one day. Guess which site is blocked most frequently on their service? If you guessed Facebook, pat yourself on the back. Facebook is blocked by both home and business users so often that it has earned the [...]

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Manage Multiple Social Streams

Picturesque — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:03:30 +0000

Sendible lets you manage multiple social streams. Cool new feature! Check it out at Sendible.

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Great WordPress Plugins

Picturesque — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:00:20 +0000

Yoast has posted his favorite WordPress plugins at http://yoast.com/top-wordpress-plugins/. Great list that I could add to with the following items: WP-Piwik instead of Google Analytics Contact-form-7 Social Profiles Widget RSS Includes Pages AWeber Integration and AWeber Registration Integration (see link to the right) HTML Javascript Adder

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Remove Robots.txt and Get Lost

Picturesque — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:55:47 +0000

In a post on Google’s Webmaster’s Help Forum, a site owner posted questions about their lengthy robots.txt file. The conversation goes on for a while and finally a Google employee recommended that they remove their robots.txt file? Why? It is rather silly having a robots.txt file when properly developed sites tell any robot how to [...]

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He Did It – Blaming the Web Designer

Picturesque — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:22:03 +0000

There’s a great write up on SE Roundtable about duplicate content on a site created by a web designer. It’s a good case in point of selecting a designer carefully and not being afraid to spend a bit more for a professional. The final point that the site should be in a staged area is [...]

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