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SEO Tools To Analyze Your Clients And Competitors Websites
There are a number of SEO tools I use on a daily basis to help me analyze a client or competitors website. I will use specific tools depending on what type of data I am looking to analyze. These tools can save you a lot of time when researching links, on-page/off-page SEO, social media, ORM, and site analytics.
Date:2009-12-23
Building Your Site For Your End User Not Your Rank
I am here at Search Engine Stratgies Chicago 2009 and today I had the pleasure of enjoying a wonderful panel on analytics with Jim Sterne, Matt Bailey, and Dennis Mortensen from Yahoo.
Date:2009-12-09
What is missing in your website?
Add interactivity to your websites without any Flash programming
Date:2009-12-04
Fixing Simple Issues To Get Your Site Listed With Google
In the world of SEO, there's nothing worse than finding out that your site is no longer listed in the search engines.
Date:2009-11-24
Addressing Issues That Plague Web Application Measurements
Online Applications and highly-interactive web sites written in full-on programming languages are becoming the norm on the web, not the rare exception. Measuring these applications is challenging for a whole host of reasons.
Date:2009-11-11
Correcting Z-index Stacking Issues Within Internet Explorer
Having trouble with elements (divs, tables, ul, lists, etc) stacking incorrectly in only IE6 and IE7? Your issue is relatively (pardon the pun) easy to fix without going too far out of your way to fix the issue.
Date:2009-10-28
Great Blogging Tool You Have Never Heard About
Darren Rowse poses an interesting question in asking What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools? It clearly also is a topic that will generate a great deal of comment and discussion given the popularity of his Problogger blog.
Date:2009-10-14
100,000 Lucky Developers Selected To Test Google Wave
Google is getting ready to roll out Google Wave, and while it is unlikely that I'll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be...
Date:2009-09-30
Developing a Digital Footprint
Whether you like it or not, you already have a digital footprint that you can’t fully control. People are talking about you; dissecting you; and making decisions about you every day of the week.
Date:2009-09-15
Writing Site Content Through A Block
Anyone who writes a regular blog knows about writers block. But no matter how much time you spend staring at that blank page, the article just never writes itself.
Date:2009-09-01
Are Bad CAPTCHAs Hurting Your Customer Base?
CAPTCHA acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" is a way for sites to block spam. According to Wikipedia it is...
Date:2009-08-20
Your Site Load Time Can Effect Your SEO Ranking
Have you ever considered how your website's loading time might impact your search engine rankings? It might be time to take a closer look at this as Google and Yahoo! have both brought some attention to the issue recently.
Date:2009-08-05
Correctly Using 301 Redirects For Multiple Browser Types
Interesting case I came across yesterday. A URL which 301 redirected went to different URLs in different browsers.
Date:2009-07-21
Creating The Perfect Website Landing Page
A recent video from the Google Analytics Teams is a must watch if you're trying to put together the perfect landing page for your website.
Date:2009-07-06
Learning To Understand Web Analytics
Hearing the questions from so many that come to my seminars, one would think that analytics was difficult or hard to grasp.
Date:2009-06-24
Special Deals for Designers and Developers: Start Saving Now
Enjoy exclusive membership pricing for yourself or pass the savings on to your clients when you become a member of LinkTogether
Date:2009-06-15
How To Make Your Site Social Media Friendly
Numerous companies are losing vast amounts of revenue due to their web sites doing poorly in the search engines. Web sites that are not easy to find via search miss out on attracting new customers as well as repeat customers that use Google to navigate sites they already know about. Is the same true for web sites that are not social media friendly?
Date:2009-06-03
Moving Forward In Anticipation Of Web 3.0 Strategies
We're all aware that Web 1.0 is over and we're trying to get up to speed with Web 2.0. So what's around the corner with Web 3.o? Peter Granat, CEO of Cision Europe spoke to the attendees of Media Relations Summit 09 about the future of PR and technology today.
Date:2009-05-20
Using Thesis To Change Your Design Without Coding Changes
When I mention Thesis a lot of people don't really get the value of it, to them Thesis is just a design. However they don't understand Thesis and miss the real value of Thesis as a framework. First off we need to understand what a good HTML markup and framework can do.
Date:2009-05-06
Great Hosting Values from The Planet
When every dollar counts, choosing the right hosting provider can help
your business move forward - even in challenging times. Choose The
Planet's dedicated or managed hosting and see why more 20,000
businesses call The Planet home...
Date:2009-04-27
The Best Ways For Tracking 404 Errors
There are many debates as to the best way to track 404 errors. The range of tools and functions range from just being able to count the 404 errors, all the way up to tracking your 404 errors, then helping you remedy the 404 errors. As always, there is never one fix that applies to all websites.
Date:2009-04-22
Power Up Your Web Site: Instant Demo
More than just software: In addition to a thriving online developer community, Ektron can provide support, training, development, hosting and much, much more
Date:2009-04-10
How To Lower Your Website's Ranking
Ever heard of reverse search engine optimization? It's the unranking of keywords which are working well for your site. Sounds like an odd concept doesn't it? Who on earth would want to decrease their ranking in the search engines?
Date:2009-04-08
Has IE6 Time For Abandonment Really Come?
Every Web designer and Web developer I know would answer either: * Yes! * Hell, yes! or * F***, yeah! to the previous question. For most of us, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is the bane of our existence. You can design the most beautiful site that works well in IE7, Firefox, Safari and across operating systems and then you go and look at it in IE6 and you just want to cry.
Date:2009-03-24
Correcting The Dynamic Page Issues For Better Visibility
Years ago dynamic websites posed significant problems for search engines. While the engines have come a long way since the early days of dynamic website development, there are still some key problems that arise. Google has gone public stating that you don't need to fix your dynamic site problems, but in reality that's poor advice for the website owner.
Date:2009-02-25
Add New Revenue Streams to Your Business
Looking for a recession-proof marketing solution for your clients? Want to extend the range of services you offer and add new revenue streams to your business? Adding email marketing to the mix through VerticalResponse for Partners is the easiest thing you can do to bring more value to your customers and your own business!
Date:2009-02-12
Open Source Monitoring With GroundWork 5.3 Release
Groundwork, the provider of the open source based network management software, announced the availability of GroundWork 5.3. The new platform increased scalability, the number of devices managed by a single subscription, and avoids per-node licensing.
Date:2009-02-11
SEO For Your Website
There are many articles written on the HOW of SEO, covering the many and varied aspects of the art of improving your site's position in search engine ranking pages (SERPs). Whilst most people have heard the term "search engine optimization" and have a vague appreciation (or apprehension) of the hoped-for outcome, surprisingly few people seem to really understand WHY it is absolutely essential.
Date:2009-01-27
Applying Even Focus On Traffic And Conversion
In many cases, conversion has become one of the most overlooked components of any online marketing campaign. Many people focus too heavily on sending the most number of visitors to a page, without taking the time to maximize the conversion of these visitors into sales.
Date:2009-01-07
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