Search Engine Optimization and Link building

April 28, 2009 3 comments

I get offers quite often from people and companies that want to exchange links from my site to theirs and visa versa. There are many facets to link exchange that are good and bad, but today I want to write one that you may not of thought of - the transfer of equity.
One of the [...]

Google + Digg = Giggle

December 21, 2008 No comments yet

Some say ranking is dead. Google’s going though changes that may turn SEO on its ear. Google’s Matt Cutts talked about some of these changes with WebProNews not too long ago. “I’m not sure I would say ranking is dead but it’s not as important as it used to be,” he said.
Search Engine Results Pages [...]

How the bounce rate of your website can affect your Google rankings

December 18, 2008 No comments yet

Does Google use the bounce rate of a web page to specify the position of that page in the search results? What does this mean for your website rankings and what can you do to get a better bounce rate?
What is the bounce rate?
There are two definitions: the bounce rate of your website is the [...]

SEO - Search Engine Optimization in Boise

October 30, 2008 No comments yet

Ask a random person on the street in Boise what’s SEO stand for and chances are good Search Engine Optimization will not be at the top of the list.  In fact, if you ask people in Boise what Search Engine Optimization means to them, you’ll get a variety of responses.
Boise is a unique market in [...]

RSS and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

October 27, 2008 No comments yet

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a system for delivering web content directly to internet users. The concept behind RSS is eliminating the necessity of having to constantly check various websites for updates. With an RSS, time is saved through the convenience of having content automatically compiled into a user’s RSS reader (such as [...]

RSS - Improving the SEO value of your Website

October 23, 2008 No comments yet

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds regularly deliver updates from web pages in order to give you the most recent information without having to search through different sites. RSS used in conjunction with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can help maintain a high placement in search engine results. Two major benefits of RSS when [...]

Boise Website Design

October 20, 2008 1 comment

In Boise you can find a number of website design companies. From simple website design with static HTML pages to full enterprise level and custom content management systems. In Boise you can find them all, but only a handful can provide truly valuable business insight as well as website design services.
In this blog post I [...]

SEO: White Hat vs. Black Hat

October 20, 2008 1 comment

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a series of practices that are used to get a website the highest possible placement within the search results. There are many way of performing SEO, however there are both ethical and non-ethical practices that are being used. Ethical SEO involves the use of ‘White hat methods’ as [...]

sIFR, Spiders and Googlebot

October 19, 2008 No comments yet

Webcrawlers, spiders, or a Googlebot, for example, is a search engine crawler. Googlebot periodically traverses the web in record time, indexing content, links - everything contained in page source code - and storing it in Google’s search index. Then, when a user visits Google and enters a search phrase, the index, filtered by the algorithm, [...]

Twitter SEO Value Revisited

October 8, 2008 1 comment

I seem to have created a little controversy, in Twitter, to some of the comments of the above post.  I wanted to take the time to make it clear that I do not mean to say that Twitter has no SEO value.
Indeed, syndicated links can provide some ‘link juice’ which can be seen as a [...]