July 28th, 2008
One of the many myths concerning how pages are ranked is that the volume of traffic a website receives affects the rankings of the pages within that website. On the surface this seems logical as a website that gets a lot of traffic probably has good content. Unfortunately once given a deeper look this starts [...]
Tags: Alexa, Google, SEO
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July 24th, 2008
There are many good reasons to be consistent when using the ‘www’ in URLs. This includes good usability (it may confuse some people when they see it there some of the time but not others) and SEO (some search engines may consider the the same page with the ‘www’ different then the one without it).
The [...]
Tags: Apache, htaccess, PHP, SEO
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July 21st, 2008
For the purpose of this blog post, when I say “Meta tags” I am referring to the Meta description and keyword tags only.
Back in the day, when Alta Vista was king of search and Yahoo was primarily a web directory, meta tags were powerful tools for helping a web page rank well in Alta Vista [...]
Tags: Google, Meta tags, SEO, Yahoo
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July 17th, 2008
Although I am not a huge participant of the social media scene, I find myself actually sustaining use of Twitter. For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, according to Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters [...]
Tags: Snitter, Twirl, Twitter, Twitterfox
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July 14th, 2008
Anyone who knows me knows that I love animals. I’m known as a “cat person” and my fondness for dogs is no big secret as well. Heck, I’ve even taken to liking horses now that I’ve had the opportunity to be around them more.
I have two cats, Boba Katt and Harley. Yes, Boba Katt is [...]
Tags: Boba Katt, cats, Harley, Star Wars
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