I was recently talking to a colleague and he said he’s like to be on page one for all the keywords in the industry. Well that is the gist of it, but i am paraphrasing. But no matter how you slice it is it realistic or even possible? Well the answer is yes and no, […]
Lately I have been incorporating more localization into my efforts for clients. What are some of the best practices for that and what exactly is localization anyway and why bother? What are the benefits of localization and who wants or needs the effort involved? And what does it cost? I will try to answer some
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My last post about how to depersonalize search might have been too hard for the weary computer user, so here is a much quicker ( and efficient ) method. If you are using Firefox there is a plugin that you can install that does a great job – just point your browser to http://yoast.com/tools/seo/disable-personalized-search-plugin/ and
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I was thinking recently about how to find ways to get some traffic to your web site, something that would be easy to describe and easy to implement. I think the best way to describe it is the idea of “low hanging fruit”. Let’s say you have a site – let’s use Cary on Fitness
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Recently a client was talking to me about his hosting company’s stats on his website. Here was our correspondence. ed- hi, fat cow sent me my visitor stats for february- so far this month, 1,805 visits, 25,590 hits..thats the most for any month since august 2011. my response –
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Almost weekly I get offers to put up a link to some other site, in return for their putting a link to my site. Almost always I decline for a variety of reasons. Some of these cases i could have done a bit of effort and made it whole, but if they haven’t done their
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I’ve been meaning to take the pure JavaScript code I had for a former incarnation of a Return on Investment form/calculator and turn it into a more robust application, using the Ajax model and a PHP handler and this weekend I finally got around to it. The form calculates results on revenue and profit and
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I wanted to shore up my understanding of Statistical Confidence Levels ( “shore up” is a joke, there is no shore, no beach, no nothing) so I contacted my brother in law, Paul Vogt, who is a genius at this stuff, and asked him to explain… “So say you’ve got two sets of data from
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Add Search Engine Optimization to your Web Site Workbook & Plans for Search Engine Optimization Search tip about Text on the Page Text on the page: When you are writing text for your pages you should try to use your topical keywords throughout the entire page. Ideally you will have about 7% of the text
11 Reasons why your web site isn’t getting traffic Overachieving graphics Poor copy writing Targeting the wrong market Not targeting any market Poor design Takes too long to load a page Too flashy and cutesy Using poor contrast in color mixing Poor credibility Poor font choice Navigation is non-uniform It’s important to take the time
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