“Most people want to believe that there is some sort of “magic bullet” that, when applied to their HTML, will raise a site to the top of search results. Like all magic, this belief is an illusion, one fostered by so-called “search engine optimization professionals” – from the Introduction to Search Engine Optimization on Dudley […]
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I may have written about this or mentioned it: folk finding you via search engines. How do search engines decide which websites to place higher in their listings than others? That’s a well kept secret that lots of folk get paid lots to try to second guess. It’s the field of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
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Dave Almos suggested I set up the LinkedIn account. I spent most of yesterday researching and doing just that. It’s been a kick. I suggest getting into that as a way to getting your mind back into computers and job stuff if you need to. It’s helped me focus. I had no idea the connections
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Writes Matt Cutts in his blog. Keywords are still important in the description meta tag as those will show up in the search results, though apparently not used for rankings. A video on Matt’s blog explains further as does an entry in the Google Webmaster Central Blog. The is more clarification in the Q&Q and
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I have been researching a plan of action for getting a client’s site found via Google. Lot’s of web marketing stuff out there on things like how to use keywords. What’s Web 2.0 for reams? Watched a video yesterday by Matt Cutts who is head of Google’s Webspam team. He does a lot of videos
I’m continuing to learn as much piece meal or trial & error as in an organized read the manual manner. After fiddling around with the last theme until I liked it I read an article Chris Price at A3Webtech wrote. He said, “The simplest way to check a basic level of quality, as ever, is
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