This morning I gave a presentation to the Minneapolis Breakfast Club. I belong to the club; we each get one week to present on our wares. It’s a great group of folks. I promised to post the PPT here… Continue reading
Category Archives: SEO
Google Caffeine dinner for TCDP
Sorry today’s Byte is kind of long – but hopefully helpful to some folks. Also for folks in the Twin Cities, I wanted to invite you to a fundraising dinner for the TC Daily Planet. (I’m on the board and I think they do good work training folks to use media for community advocacy.) The … Continue reading
Google Page Rank Check
In the past I’ve talked about the importance of having other sites link to yours – if you want to rank highly with Google. Mostly I like the idea of doing that organically – by linking to content you think is good and hoping folks do the same. Now that doesn’t mean that you might … Continue reading
Google Places
OK a couple of weeks ago I mentioned QR codes with a promise to say more later – well it’s later. It’s a little later than intended but I got mixed up with a great vacation in the West of Ireland and a week back home for work. (For a great refresher or demonstration of … Continue reading
Speed Matters to Google
Thanks to my friend Sheldon in Minneapolis for the heads up on Google’s latest SEO criteria. I’ve been touting for years that three things matter in terms of Google Ranking: Good use of relevant keywords (to the searcher as related to your site) Good links into your site Freshness of content Well it looks like … Continue reading
New Tools for Getting Found: A Presentation
I’m in town giving a presentation to the MCN Nonprofit Technology & Communication Conference. So I’m totally cheating today and am just pointing you to the presentation for tips of the week. Here’s a Reader’s Digest version that just includes the various links to tools: http://www.keywordspy.com – to check out popularity of keyword terms http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php … Continue reading
Keyword Spy
So you have a web site and you want your potential customers to find you on Google. The problem is you have a couple of clients who keep beating you out of the top places. Well the first step to beating them is finding out more about them. You can find out a ton with … Continue reading
Yelp
I know I’ve been weak lately with the Bytes. I could send you my synopsis of the FCC rural broadband plan if you’re wondering what I’m doing. I wanted to at least send something this week – and I ran into a web site that helped me choose my lunch destination today: Yelp http://www.yelp.com – … Continue reading
Web Site Checkups
Today I spoke to MAP’s Nonprofit Tech Talk group about web sites. The idea was really a checklist of items to look for on your web site – especially if you are considering or making changes to your site. Here’s the presentation and the actual checklist; it includes a lot of my favorite free tools. Continue reading
Assessing your Web Site: MCN Presentation
Today I am giving a presentation at the MCN New Times New Tech conference (http://www.mncn.org/nptech/index.htm). Wish me luck! Below is the presentation I am giving and here is the web site assessment form. Continue reading
Byte of the Week 