Review: Top 3 SEO WordPress Plugins
by Claye Stokes, December 30, 2011
"What's the best WordPress SEO plugin?" I'm asked that question all the time, and recently took part in a debate discussing which plugin is best. I decided to draft a features list comparing the top three most downloaded SEO plugins to get a better picture of what each plugin has to offer, … Read more
12 More SEO Idiots (or Experts) to Avoid
by David Scoville, March 1, 2011
A few months ago, I posted 7 SEO idiots and subsequently received myriad ideas for other SEO idiots. Below you’ll find 12 more SEO idiots with dialogue and oatmeal-like depictions. Thank you to everyone who submitted ideas. For those ideas I’ve used, I’ve given the comment author a link. Poor Link Requester … Read more
How to Build a Website with SEO in Mind
by Kevin W. Phelps, January 14, 2011
To make sure your site is built for the search engines, be sure to balance these elements in your Web design. URL Structure: Don’t bother using page IDs for your URLs. Changing your URLs to a worded structure will not only help with SEO, but it will also help your users know … Read more
Search Engine Optimization: Know Before You Go
by Suzanne Sanchez, December 28, 2010
Many companies decide on a whim to jump on the SEO bandwagon without really understanding the ramifications. While SEO is becoming more and more vital to a successful business model, there are many things that need to be considered before moving forward. Below are a few points to get the juices flowing. … Read more
Quit Screwing Around, Punch Your Website Visitors in the Face
by Dan Bischoff, September 20, 2010
4 commonsense ways to sell more stuff on your website When people come to your site, they are looking for one thing, and one thing only. For us, our visitors are looking for one product: Top Search Engine Rankings. That’s really it. Sure, they might want top rankings to get more traffic, … Read more
18 Simple SEO Items Commonly Missed in Web Development
by Dan Patterson, July 21, 2010
One of the things we constantly have to do as SEO experts is give recommendations to companies on how they need to change their site so that they can be better optimized. The sad thing is that a lot of the things we recommend should have been done during the Web development … Read more
CSS of the Future: How CSS3 can Optimize Design
by Cyndi Thompson, March 31, 2010
The design blogosphere has been buzzing about the improvements level 3 of Cascading Style Sheets will bring. Although still a ways off from official recommendation status by the W3C, some browsers are already supporting pending features. I want to highlight a few of the CSS3 features I’m excited about that will not … Read more
Building a Championship Web Team with the Client
by Mike Benson, March 19, 2010
We’ve all heard the old adage, “The customer is always right.” From time to time there is push back from frustrated designers and developers suggesting heresy; the customer is, in fact, fallible. We must be at this part in the cycle because I’ve seen several blog posts lately regarding how the customer … Read more
Increase Conversions With an Old Sales Model
by Joel Cudmore, March 3, 2010
You have trained hard and optimized your content for keywords (SEO basics). You’ve gained respect from your peers (link building), and have battled your competition and fought your way to the top of the search results (queue 80′s training montage). Now comes the championship fight – but it’s not against your top … Read more
Where’s the Beef? How to Beef Up Your Web Design
by Dylan Wreggelsworth, February 19, 2010
Three old ladies huddle around a burger with a massive bun and a tiny patty. “It certainly is a big bun.” says one. “It’s a big fluffy bun!” says another. Meanwhile the third stares grumpily at the sandwich and then says, “Where’s the beef!?” She clearly wanted a real burger — not … Read more
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