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Help, I’ve Been Penguinized!
[2012-05-18] So you have been Penguinized, hopefully no worse than you were Pandalized. What was this update from Google all about and how can you counter so that you maintain your SERP presence.
Keywords And Heading Tags: Should You Include Them?
[2012-04-30] Lately, it seems as though many people have been concerned about over-optimization when it comes to search engine optimization of their web sites. Rightly so. There is some concern, especially since Google has been testing the over-optimization filter yet again. Keep in mind, though, that versions of the so-called Over Optimization Penalty has been around for years and SEOs have been concerned for a long time.
New Developer Resources Added For Google's Ad Exchange
[2012-04-03] If you use Ad Exchange, you're going to want to listen up. Google is making some new resources available to developers that should make your lives a lot easier.
Registration Open For Google's Code Jam
[2012-03-16] Code Jams are kind of like the Olympics for developers and programmers. It's a grueling days long competition to see who can solve the most challenging algorithms that the organizer of the event can throw at them. If that sounds like your kind of thing, Google wants to you to compete in their event.
Telefónica And Mozilla Developing HTML5 Operating System For Mobile
[2012-02-28] At today's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla and Telefónica Digital announced in a press release that they have teamed up to create a new mobile platform that will facilitate the first HTML5-based devices running on the open Web. The new Open Web Devices platform (OWD), will help to establish HTML5 as the next major environment for smartphones, at low price points. On a related note, Microsoft has recently streamlined its Windows Phone 7 operating system, in order to bring smartphone prices down in emerging markets.
Great Analytics Tools To Check Out
[2012-02-07] 3 Metrics to Keep an Eye On
For many webmasters, measuring website performance - and acting on the findings - is just this side of an obsession. Luckily there are great measurement tools - i.e., Web analytics programs - to steer us toward business growth online.
What To Do About Dynamic Content?
[2012-01-18] If you care about how your site is found in organic search, you must spend some of your time thinking about search engine optimization (SEO). In the olden days (2005), certain kinds of content had no shot of showing up in the search index (and thus, could never be found). But in recent years, more and more dynamic content is showing up in Google's search index, as Google makes its spider smarter and smarter. So, now there's nothing to worry about with dynamic content, right? Not quite.
Developing Your Coding Skills
[2012-01-03] Like any normal blogger, I obsess about my blog. How much traffic am I getting? Where is the traffic coming from? What search terms are leading people here? The search terms are most interesting when it comes to thinking about new content to write. Today, I am writing about a question I saw in the search terms, why should you become a software engineer?
Finding Ways To Recruit More Developers
[2011-12-05] Lately, more services have appeared with the hope of showing who has experience with various technologies. The idea is meant to solve two problems. First, influence is a hot topic right now, with people focusing more on general influence and sites like Klout or PeerIndex. How do you find people that know about things like HTML5 or JavaScript and JQuery? Outside of the people that wrote a book or wrote the framework, how do you find those people that are truly knowledgable? The second problem is the recruitment and hiring process. In the technical industry, recruitment and hiring is big business. Given the amount of turnover in the industry, those recruiting fees can really add up. In many cases, companies need to pay as much as 10% of the starting salary for the new employee to the recruitment firm. If the average placement makes $100,000, that means the recruitment firm takes $10,000 per position.
27 Key Takeaways From Sessions at PubCon
[2011-11-15] The following are my takeaways from several "link building" sessions I attended on day three of PubCon Las Vegas which include Links With Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk, Real World Low-Risk High-Reward Link Building, SEO 2011 - Greg Boser, Link Building 2011 - What's Hot, and Daily Social Media Success I'm not intending to cover each session in detail but rather provide key tips and takeaways from each session.
Using 301 Redirects to Capture Lost Traffic
[2011-10-28] Have you ever clicked on a link only to find that the destination page no longer exists? It's a frustrating experience that leaves a sour taste in the users mind and also means a potential lost customer for the website owner.
It's Time To Increase Your Conversion Rate
[2011-10-12] Many times it happens that people with online business face the most common problem. Their businesses are not giving them as much output as they expect them to make or they are not getting enough number on people on their website as they wanted to. They have trouble monetizing their website. Well, the solution to that is easy. It's time to stop worrying about number of people on your website since you can make twice as much as you currently are, with the number of people that are already there.
Determine Page Load Speed With These Tools
[2011-09-29] Remember the days when we all utilized dial up Internet? Maybe you were lucky and had a powerful modem that got you more than 9600 baud rate. With today's technology we can surf the Internet at blazing speeds. When you are a business person or website owner that is looking to make sales, offer products or show off your service's speed is very important.
SMX East: Panda Proofing Your Content
[2011-09-16] The Panda became the center of discussion for the panelists at SMX New York 2011. In the session titled- Panda Proofing Your Content- thought and tips were shared on applying Panda prevention techniques in actual practices. The panelists included-
Google Announces The Retirement Of The Google-News Bot
[2011-08-26] Google has announced that they will now crawl news sites with Googlebot instead of Googlebot-News. For those wondering about Googlebot, it is the same bot that crawls sites for web search.
How-To Add Google +1 Buttons To Your Website Guide
[2011-08-10] The buzz about Google + continues with it being the fastest growing social network in history. It reached 25 million users in weeks compared to Facebook which took years.
Don't Forget The Small Details
[2011-07-27] When you deal with big projects, it is often easy to overlook small things along the way. It's not that anyone is cutting corners, but rather some small detail gets overlooked. Sometimes even the smallest details can matter a great deal!
The Effect Of +1 buttons To Websites
[2011-07-01] Google released the reports that show the effect of +1 buttons to the website.
Adding Google +1 To Your Site
[2011-06-14] Google has launched Google +1 button, which is like the Facebook Like button. It will help the consumers find out if a particular page has been liked by their friends too. If a user is signed in to his Google account, he marks this +1 button for a page, then, while his friends are searching the same category of pages, they will be able to see the annotations suggesting who all liked that page.
Improving Your Site’s Link Structure with Xenu Link Sleuth
[2011-05-24] Xenu's Link Sleuth is one of those rare SEO tools that's both free and feature packed. In case you haven't heard of it before, it's marketed as a tool that can find broken links across your website, but it can actually do so much more.
Announcements And Tips For Developers From Google I/O
[2011-05-13] No doubt many of our readers are in San Fran this week enjoying GoogleI/O, Google's annual developer event and I'm sure a few of you, like me, having been sitting back at the office watching the livestream - if not, fear not as Google will be making all the sessions and keynotes available for your viewing pleasure - thanks Google for doing a great job of this!
Webmasters Identify Bug with Google Sitemap Index
[2011-04-29] A sudden drop in their Google Sitemaps index count has been reported by many webmasters. Does this include you?
How Does the Recent Google Changes Affect Your Website?
[2011-04-15] If you follow SEO news, you've probably heard about Google's recent update named "Panda" or "Farmer," depending on who's speaking. If you don't follow SEO news, you probably have a life, which is nice. Please feel free to let me know what that's like.
Google Launches Page Speed Plugin for Chrome
[2011-03-29] In an attempt to make the web faster, Google has launched the much-awaited Page Speed extension for Google Chrome. User can now receive Page Speed performance suggestions to enhance the speed of their sites directly from the Chrome browser.
How To Mass Tag URLs for Google Analytics / AdWords etc
[2011-03-15] Ever try creating lots of Facebook ads that you wanted to track using Google Analytics? If so, you probably know Google's URL Builder, which generates URLs with tracking tags. (See post-script for an explanation if you're not familiar.) It does this for a spectacular amount of URLs at a time! Exactly one URL at a time, to be precise.
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