SEO

I've had a lot of conversations about search engine optimization recently. Opportunities abound for businesses, bloggers, e-commerce vendors, website owners among others to take advantage of a few basics when it comes to SEO. You have to start somewhere and in my experience there are basics that a lot of people miss that, when adhered to, can do a lot to help.

For those, like me, who take a keen interest in such things there's no shortage of information, best practices, and methods to learn about, know about and to try. However, for a lot of people that are in business on the web - bloggers, brick and mortars, etc. - it's hard to know where to start, what you need to know and even how much you can affect your search engine rankings.

This post isn't going to be about PPC, adwords or anything like that. It's about the two sides to the SEO coin - on-page optimization, and off-page optimization. Get these concepts down and maximize your efforts there and you will see a definite increase in the quality of your traffic.    Read more »

College football is over (at least for the 'Noles) and all that really remains at this point is bowl season which is really just a joke. I still don't know how FBS division football can be as huge as it is and there is still no playoff system. Well, I do know. It's called greed, but that's a subject for another post. FSU embarrassed the Gators in the swamp and that would normally make me very happy, but the fact that we were pretty ugly in that game takes SOME of the satisfaction out. Not all, but some. After all, we're 4-0 against our in-state rivals over the last two years and I can't complain about that.

I know it's hard to believe, but yes - there are only 22 shopping days left until Christmas. And less if you're buying online. One year, I promise, I'm going to be prepared in advance for Christmas. I promise!

This week has been a great week that has seen some really great posts. John Saddington is on fire right now with his personal branding series, Jeff Rose wrote a brilliant post on SmartPassiveIncome.com for Pat Flynn, and it looks like Facebook is snatching up Gowalla.

Don't forget about the Charity:Water campaign happening on DragonflyHQ.com!  When you buy a KEZA necklace 50% of the proceeds go directly to Charity:Water - so make sure you buy in time for Christmas!    Read more »

What a week! After waging war with Comcast for most of the week trying to get our internet working like it should I'm ready for the weekend. During the vast quantities of time that my internet was completely down I caught up on a lot of reading and decided it was time to start doing some new cool stuff on my blog.

And so begins what will be my weekly "good stuff" collection post of cool stuff I've found. It will consist of things that I've collected over the week that are what I call "good stuff". Good stuff means that it's something that is just plain good content. So I hope that you find some "good stuff" here.

And a tip of the cap to Davis and the folks at Comcast, they got it done and I'm back to warp speed on the internet - thanks!    Read more »

I talked a few weeks about about the basics of search engine optimization.  In that post I talked about how SEO is art and science and it takes regular, specific efforts to make sure that your site is well prepared to be indexed well by search engines.  I told you about creating pages with good X/HTML markup, the length of registration for your domain, and making sure you're using all your meta information correctly.  All of those elements lend themselves more to the science-side of the search engine optimization pr    Read more »

An important topic for any website owner to invest time in learning would be the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). Early on in my experimentation with website design and development I learned that for any site to be successful that, not only did it have to look good and present itself in a professional manner, but the content had to be constructed with equal or greater care than the visual aspect of the site in order to perform well for its target audience.

There is art and science to properly optimizing your site. There is an entire industry dedicated to it, and if you're in the web design & development business you're likely to get spammed by companies offering SEO services and promising to produce dramatic results. However the basics of getting your website in to great shape to be found and crawled by search engines are not that mystical, or complicated - quite the contrary. It can be done by following sound coding and design principles and making a conscious effort to highlight the things that are central to the goals you're trying to accomplish.    Read more »