I ran across an interesting website today that listed the top 100 US domains with the most unique back links. As any good SEO guy would tell you back links are one of the key factors in ranking well on the search engines so it got me thinking what are some of these websites doing to get so many unique back links? As you look at the list the answer is quite clear- GIVE WEBMASTERS SOMETHING THEY CAN USE!
Coming in first is Google Maps- This surprised me. I though for...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A lot of the folks I speak to seem to think that the home page of the website should be the page that pops up on the search engines for every search term that is related to a company. In other words a lot of companies try and optimize their home page for every search term they want to rank well for. This is a big mistake.
As a general rule your SEO efforts will be most successful if you try and optimize for only one to two closely related search terms...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Every so often I get a call or an email from a client that has just been approached by a publisher or marketing website trying to sell them the banner add. The jist of the question is something like this:
Do you think this site would be worth advertising on? It runs about $500/yr. with first page placement. www.websitenamehere.com He’s telling me that they’ve had 14,000 hits, 3,000 per year, which doesn’t include members.The first thing I do is check a site like http://www.compete.com/ for...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The primary benefit of search engine optimization (SEO) is widely known as a prime placement on a search engine’s first result page. Companies across the globe are manipulating their website in order to achieve the elusive status of a first page appearance. There are many things that a company should be aware of in the SEO process. First, it will necessitate change and a significant amount of time. Along with this, keywords will be chosen and links will be earned. Above all, your company should...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Update 4/22/16-
I can't believe this scam is still going on. Today one of our clients received a version of this message but the spammer was claiming to be part of Network Solutions.
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
We received an application from Huabao Ltd on April 18, 2016. They want to register " rockcountyalliance " as their Internet Keyword and " rockcountyalliance .cn "、" rockcountyalliance .com.cn " 、" rockcountyalliance...
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Kevin Wiskia
Friday, June 11, 2010
Typography. It's such a beautiful art. Simple adjustments can drastically improve not only how we read text, but how we feel when reading text. Conveying emotions through text via the web has some serious limits. Only a small subset of fonts are going to work cross-platform. Here's the basics.Arial / HelveticaCourier NewTimes New RomanOf course it is possible to use other fonts, but those are the basics that are "guaranteed" to work.Luckily, Google has done it once again. Using Google's font directory...
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Friday, May 14, 2010
"We introduced a new way to view search results for sites with lots of images. Each result will now include a strip of images from the website, so you can get a better preview of what each page has to offer. [...]
This week, we released a new version of Goggles with translation capabilities built in. To use it, point your phone's camera at a foreign word or phrase and use the 'region of interest button' to draw a box around specific words...
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Last Friday, Google announced that they started to use site speed as one of the 200 signals that influence the position of a website in the search results.
"As part of that effort, today we're including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. [...]
We've decided to take site speed into account in...
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Friday, March 5, 2010
I was looking into this a while back and it just popped back up in my mind again. To reduce bandwidth and page load times some websites will place a majority of their images in a single image and use it as if it were a tile sheet.
Example: http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo8.png
Using some a certain combination of CSS properties you can crop out unneeded parts of the image.
Example:.next-button...
8:51 AM
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
As a web developer, I regularly open a website to see the images on the page slowly load line by line. I immediately know what has happened and think about the day that I will write a blog post about how to resize images for the web. Well, today is the day that I write the post.The Problem: Large ImagesUploading images from a digital camera will put unnecessarily large images on your site. Today's...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
If you are thinking about moving your hosting to us and one of your concerns is losing emails in the process, have no fear. We now have the ability to easily transfer your email accounts to our hosting environment from many popular email providers. We can help migrate your email from Exchange 2007, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus, IMAIL and others.Contact your current system administrator if you are unsure which mail server type you are using.Learn more about our hosting options here:http://tinyurl.co...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Google has recently started to return bread crumbs as clicable results on some of their search results pages (SERPS). The program is still new and according to Googles Matt Cutts and what you are seeing now may change down the road. The neat thing for webmasters is that it provides more links to your site from the SERPS page on Google. At this point all that is needed to get Google...
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Writing Good Title Tags For Search Engine OptimizationIt amazes me how many companies are not taking full advantage of their title tags or not formatting their title tags properly. If your page is all about branding your company name then put the company name at the front of the title tag, but if your page is trying to capture traffic for a specific phrase like "Thermal Dynamic Techno Funk" you want the key phrase at the front of your title tag.
Missed Opportunity: XYZ Company- Leader...
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Here is what Google Says About Ranking Guarantees: "No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. Beware of SEO's that claim to guarantee rankings."
- Google's SEO Tips
At Foremost Media we have a great track record of providing top rankings for our clients and we can guarantee that your project will be completed in a ethical and honest manor and with the same attention to detail that we have used in the past to deliver excellent results to our other SEO clients. Our results with our past and...
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This week Microsoft has admitted that its Internet Explorer 6 browser that is running on Windows 2000 and Windows XP computers has flawed code that contributes to a security hole in the software that was recently used in attacks on Google in China.Microsoft is now urging users who have not yet upgraded from IE6 to consider upgrading to a new version of Internet Explorer. Upgrades from Internet Explorer 6 have been freely available from Microsoft for several years, but Microsoft has refused to force...
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Drip Email Marketing Campaigns Can Help Sell Complex Products and Reduce Sales Cycle-
Many products epically in the B2C realm take some time to explain and buyers often need to be educated on the product. Enter stage left- Drip Marketing! The idea behind drip marketing is to take a cold lead or a researcher and educate that lead about the product in an attempt to turn them into customers. One way to do this is to have a series of automated emails sent a few days or weeks apart, which explain more...