August 9th, 2010 - WordPress Ann Arbor, Monthly Meetup
Publisher? Developer? Blogger? Student? Professional? Sharpen or share your WordPress skills by attending this monthly networking, education and sharing event in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Every meeting consists of a presentation by a local WordPress professional (which could be you!), networking, tips and general WordPress discussion. Optional post-eventnetworking at local bars or coffee shops. Location Ann…Continue Reading…
July 20th, 2010 - SEO through Accessibility- How designing accessible websites leads to automatic SEO
Really good slideshare presentation by Cone Trees, “How designing accessible websites leads to automatic SEO”. Cone Trees is a website about user experience with a focus on usability engineering and human centered design. SEO through Accessibility- How designing accessible websites leads to automatic SEO View more presentations from Abhay Rautela.
July 19th, 2010 - NOODP Meta Tag and the Open Directory Project
DMOZ is a human-edited directory, updated by a community of volunteer editors. So the title and description you added in when your originally submitted your site to the “Open Directory Project” may not be valid anymore, so by adding <meta name=”robots” content=”NOODP”> to your websites header, tells Google not to take the title / description…Continue Reading…
July 17th, 2010 - Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?
Are CSS-based website layouts better than tables for SEO? as this video suggests – use whatever you are more comfortable with. (However CSS is usually more preferable).
July 16th, 2010 - HootSuite’s Follower Insights Privacy Issue
UPDATE: HootSuite have added an opt-out of Insights option, now you can turn of insights and block your social profiles from displaying within the HootSuite UI. ####### Some of you will have noticed that HootSuite (which I love and think is a great service) added Follower Insights on July 13th 2010. “Follower Insights Get to know your network with the…Continue Reading…
July 15th, 2010 - How can a website compete using only white hat techniques?
Really good video by Matt Cutts, explaining how a website compete using only white hat techniques.
June 17th, 2010 - Importance of Keyword Alerts for your Business
I came across a post a few days ago by my previous employer “Impact Web Design Makes a Big Impact With Our Graphics”. This post is about a web design company in Charlotte, NC, using custom graphics on their site, that are obviously the same as the graphics on 352′s website. I do not want to…Continue Reading…
May 8th, 2010 - Read More Link after Blog Post Excerpt [...]
I was a little annoyed that the only default way from my main blog landing page, that users could continue reading my posts was to click on the blog title or the post image. I do not feel this was 100% user friendly or intuitive for the reader. I needed to replace [...] at the end…Continue Reading…
April 16th, 2010 - Google Sitelinks
This week we are happy to report Get a Grip Water Sports was rewarded with Google sitelinks. What Are Sitelinks The links shown below some sites in Google’s search results, called sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Google’s systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save…Continue Reading…
April 8th, 2010 - Adding Images to your Sitemaps
Adding images to your Sitemaps is easy. Simply follow the instructions in the Webmaster Tools Help Center or refer to the example below:
