I know I’ve been MIA for a while. Sorry! I just got too busy but the good news is that I think I have handle on things again. Today’s Byte of mostly for folks with commercial web sites or are thinking about buying keyword ads: Keyword Spy: http://www.keywordspy.com Type in the address of … Continue reading
Category Archives: SEO
Press Release Grader
I learned about today’s Byte topic through the James J Hill library (http://www.jjhill.org/). Press Release Grader: http://www.pressreleasegrader.com You paste your press release into their web site along company name and URL and they grade your release and make suggestions for improvement. They do a good job of reminding you of some obvious, but easily forgotten … Continue reading
Ferguson Financial Changes Keywords
Last year I worked with Ferguson Financial Group on their web site. Specifically, I performed research on the best keywords for them to use on their web site. They used those keyword terms in their titles tags and in the content throughout their site. They recently contacted me for a checkup. I was pleased to … Continue reading
Squidoo
Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com) is a web site that lets you build one-page web sites quickly and easily. The idea is that everyone is an expert on something – and Squidoo is the place to showcase that expertise. Squidoo will put ads on your page – but they will give you commission on the clicks on your … Continue reading
SEO for PDFs
Thanks to Jan in Wisconsin for sending me an interesting article on search engines and PDFs. A few years ago most search engines did not track PDF documents. Most of them are smarter now. It’s still not the best way to go but there are plenty of times where PDF makes sense and I thought … Continue reading
Web Site Links
Mostly Google likes web sites that are popular – and they define popularity by how many web sites link to a web site. So it used to be great to get links from everyone and anyone. Well that changed a while ago – maybe 2-3 years ago. Google still liked links – but they only … Continue reading
Dynamic URLs
Someone asked me last week about dynamically generated web pages and how they ranked with the search engines. Traditionally anything that was dynamically generated did not do well in the search engines; the big test is if your web pages have very long addresses and include symbols, especially a question mark or equal sign – … Continue reading
Wikia
Well I’m still in Dublin and my Internet access is still not stellar – so today I’m going to mention something I read in the newspaper over the weekend. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) founder, Jimmy Wales is building a search engine that is going to debut is December. Wikipedia is the popular community-written online encyclopedia. It has … Continue reading
Blacklisted by Google
A friend of mine has a web site that used to do very well on Google. But suddenly he has fallen off the Google map. Just to make sure I tested his site here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitestatus And yup, he wasn’t listed. When a new site isn’t listed, I don’t worry too much. When a site that’s … Continue reading
Submitting to Search Engines
All week I have been doing training in New Ulm Minnesota. In the class many people have created their own web sites using a tool called Web Site Tonight (https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/hosting_build_website.asp). It’s a service where you can create and host your web site without learning html. I have been so impressed with the folks in the … Continue reading
Byte of the Week 