Newsletter Archive: 2010

Creating Great Landing Pages For Conversions
Most website owners know that a great landing page is the key to turning visitors into buyers. The main point to getting a landing page that converts is to test, test test.

Date:2010-07-21


Build Your Site For Tomorrow's Algorithm Change
When it comes to search engine algorithms, the one thing you can count on is change. Google says there were hundreds of tweaks last year, Bing is always refining its indexing, and scores of other “Google Killers” are trying to worm their way into the market with a better search experience

Date:2010-07-07


Using Your Footer To Improve Site Optimization
We will discuss how to optimize the footer, header and images that expand over the entire portion of a website.

Date:2010-06-23


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Date:2010-06-22


Building A Diversity Of Skills To Be An SEO Leadere
So you want to be an SEO aye? I'll be the first to tell you that working as a Search Engine Optimization professional is a very cool gig, but doesn't come without it's challenges. SEO's are a very special group of people (that's just my opinion) that often have a very diverse set of skills and experience.

Date:2010-06-09


Using Google Labs To Develop Your Site
This final section of Google Webmaster tools provides some tools that Google calls "experimental". The tools in this section change frequently so those mentioned here are available at the time of this writing.

Date:2010-05-26


Improving The Quality Of Your Blog Post
I was having a a few conversations on twitter last week. It was clear that more than one person needed a little bit more explanation about how to put some of the tips I mentioned into action, so here are 6 quick tips to help you improve your posts.

Date:2010-05-07


Adding Better Security To Your WordPress Blog
Is DIY SEO any good? Does it work? Last week I was asked by a client why he wasn't seeing the https: prefix in his URL (and the little lock icon in the bottom of the browser window) when he was logged into his WordPress site.

Date:2010-04-21


How To Develop A Complete DIY SEO Strategy
Is DIY SEO any good? Does it work? When I got to look at DIY SEO my first thought was: good structure & layout, lets see what is under the hood. But then after opening up the hood I found a car with no engine.

Date:2010-04-07


Improving Your Natural Rank Using AdWords
People who are new to SEO and PPC often think that having a Google Adwords campaign somehow improves their natural search engine results.

Date:2010-03-23


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Date:2010-03-22


Developing Good SEO For Your Site
One of the most important considerations in DIY website design involves getting website design templates that are search engine friendly.

Date:2010-03-09


Increasing Your SEO Through Extended Tagging
Google has been using snippets automatically generated from websites to show as instead of the Meta description.

Date:2010-02-24


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Date:2010-02-16


Building Site Architecture And Internal Links
In order to move your site up in the search engine rankings you have to get your optimized content to the search engines in the most streamlined way possible.

Date:2010-02-10


Cleaning And Speeding Up Your WordPress Blog
This is a followup to my previous post on adding scripts only to the WordPress pages that need them.

Date:2010-01-27


Launch a Career in Web Design - Online
Full Sail's online Web Design and Development Bachelor's Program is designed to help you become fluent in the programming languages, technologies, and usability needs that are shaping tomorrow's Internet.

Date:2010-01-26


To Create Compelling Headlines You Need To Work Backwards
Here's a synopsis of an excellent post by Adam Singer, How to Write Compelling Social News Headlines; check out the complete source article for a discussion of each recommendation:

Date:2010-01-12


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