Category Archives: Search Engine Optimization

Ok. I Need a Website. Now What?

From the largest corporation down to the family pet, almost everyone has a website these days. Almost. But not you. You know you need one but you don’t know where to begin. Never fear. This article is for you. It will answer some basic questions like: What is web hosting? What’s a domain name? Do I need an SSL Certificate? How much will all of this cost?

There are lots of questions and the article will try to help you answer them.

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YouTube Gives Backlinks to Your Website

Get some traffic love to your website from YouTube with the new ‘As Seen On’ link.

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Valid Robots.txt File

Here is a pretty cool tool which may save you from some robots.txt errors. Now, writing a robots.txt file is not the most difficult thing in the world, but it never hurts to check. All you have to do it create your robots.txt file, upload it to your web server and then paste the URL […]

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Use Graphics Correctly and your Web Site Downloads Faster

Graphics can visually make or break a web site. For a visitor, a web page with mostly text can look an awful lot like one of those “end user license agreements” and nobody wants to look at those things :). So, you need to grab your visitor’s attention and some well placed pictures can do […]

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Google Webmaster Console Adds Backlink Feature

The next time you check your Google Webmaster Console, you will see a new feature which will show some of the backlinks that point to your domain. After much brainstorming by the Google Webmaster Console team, the finally decided to call the feature, umm… Links. Links will show webmasters some of the external backlinks that […]

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I Still Hate Writing .htaccess Files

A well-written .htaccess file can do wonders for your Search Engine rankings. One of its main benefits is that you can set it up so that your web page URLs are automatically rewritten and made more Search Engine friendly. Well, last year, I posted about this awesome tool that will automatically create .htaccess files for […]

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Basic SEO Tip Number One: Title Tags

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) seems to be ever-changing. Someone is always coming out with a new way to track rankings, results or keywords. There are plenty of opinions out there and usually many arguments about which one is correct. We are often asked what are the most important things to consider for good search engine […]

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Build Backlinks: Submit to Directories

If you are a webmaster interested in building backlinks to your site, you have no doubt spent plenty of time meticulously submitting your precious site to dozens of online directories. You probably have submitted to so many of them that your poor fingers howl with displeasure due to all that typing. But, has all of […]

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