I rarely get into disagreements with clients, but sometimes, they want too much when it comes to web design. Clients often want the “razzle dazzle” they see on other websites and expect us, as web designers, to willingly put our reputations on the line to satisfy their morbid fascination with non-SEO-compliant, gaudy websites that are [...]
Poor coding can lead to poor results when you’re marketing your website through the search engines. There’s a few simple things you can do to make your website SEO ready. I will describe five things that will make your webpages shine and make them more visible in the search engines.
I gave it a few days to sink in, but Yahoo! announced last week that their organic search results would now be powered by Bing – the search engine from Microsoft. Together, these two search engine giants will now control about 27.9% of the market. Google is still ranked #1 with 64.2% of the market. What does that mean for search engine optimization? Well, I’m not entirely sure yet. One of the things I now know is that we’ll have to worry about one less piece of the bigger SEO puzzle – or do we?
You might think that after you get a website, business will just start pouring in and you’ll become an instant online success. You can dream all you want, but it just won’t happen without some type of plan in place to promote your website. One of the most popular and cost effective promotion methods is [...]
There’s more to building a website then just slapping some graphics together in an HTML document and saying, “Here ya go!” Believe it or not, there are a lot of web designers out there that do just that. While many are fine graphic artists, they lack the understanding of search engine marketing and how code [...]