SEO and Web Development – First Attempts in Retrospect
I had high hopes for my website when I put it up in 2009. Like every newbie webmaster, I spent a lot of time carefully constructing my site and making sure that the elements would work. I didn’t know much about search engine optimization then, but because I wanted my website to take off, I [...]
Getting on Top of Google and Staying There
Every website owner wants to be on top of Google and stay there. Yet there are only 10 places at the top for each keyword or keyphrase. So how do you get there and, more importantly, how to stay there. Ryan Tomlinson of Business Web Presence Optimization Strategies has a few tips in today’s guest [...]
My webpage speed test results to optimize page speed
I’ve been performing an occasional webpage speed test on this blog since Google’s announcement about using site speed in web search ranking. It’s not a high priority, but I want to at least try to stay up to par. To perform a webpage speed test, I installed Page Speed and YSlow in my Firefox browser [...]
10 Easy Steps to SEO Your Website
There’s a lot of talking about SEO or Search Engine Optimization on the Net. And we add our share to the topic on this blog. Yet, probably because the SEO basics are so obvious to the skilled marketers, many others ask themselves what the heck SEO exactly means. That’s why Sally M of EatBreatheBlog.com has [...]
Internet search engine marketing
Internet search engine marketing is the process of search engine optimization (SEO). That’s where a specialist optimizes the pages of your site for higher rankings in search engines, thus making your site more noticeable to the zillion of Internet surfers who may be using keywords matching products or services that you offer. The SEO expert [...]
Great WordPress Plugins
In many online conversations I’m asked what my favorite WordPress plugins are. I’m always a bit reluctant to answer that questions, because I only use a few of the many available. So my advice on this topic is limited. Yet exchanging experiences with plugins is what makes me select them or not and I read [...]
WordPress SEO
In the past, I’ve published post about search engine optimization for WordPress blogs, containing title optimization and generating keywords and description tags. I’ve always implemented these optimization tips myself, because they worked like charm and there was no adequate plugin available that suited my needs. Until now. Because I’ve implemented the All in One SEO [...]
WordPress Search Engine Optimization
If your blog displays archives, categories, tags and a search feature, you have to realize that the content in these sections is a duplicate of your original content shown in the ‘single’ page. Therefore it would be very wise to list an excerpt only and not the full posts. To do so, find this line: [...]
