Is the Web Dead?
It seems ridiculous doesn’t it, to say “The Web is Dead.” But, that is exactly what Wired Magazine posed in an article this week. The Internet though, is going no-where. So what’s the difference between the Web and the Internet?
Building Links Back to Your Website
External links to your site are one of the most important factors in getting ranked on Google. The first, of course, is content. If you don’t have good content other sites won’t link to you. If you do have good content, maximize its potential by finding out where the content would be useful. For example,…
Update on using meta keywords
Use of meta keywords for Google traffic died out somewhere in the late nineties when Google realized meta keywords were at times only being used by webmasters to get hits, with no regard for relevant content. The tactic is no longer useful for Google results. The company has stated they no longer look at meta…
How to build links to your website
External links and site content are the most important factors in how Google ranks a website. You may have heard the term “Content is King” in your SEO explorations. Well time and time again it has been proven good content is rewarded with more link-backs. The perfect situation for webmaster or blogger is to have…
Is DMOZ a waste of optimization time?
Recent talk about DMOZ (The Open Directory Project) being a waste of time has been emerging on the web. It was once standard for search engine optimization and web marketing experts to submit sites to DMOZ.org to increase Google page rank. DMOZ was at one time a backup Google website directory because of its manually edited…
Starting a blog with your own domain
There are so many bloggers out there, last I heard there are as many blog sites as websites. But many of you want to start a blog with your own name, without having to use the wordpress, typepad, blogspot following it. So, for instance you may want to have royscollectibles.com rather than royscollectibles.typepad.com. It’s a…
Black text is so out…
Have you noticed black text isn’t used as much anymore on websites? Sure it is still used as a background color and is one of the strongest branding colors you can use. But black for your body copy? That’s so last decade. Many sites are using variations of greys these days. The basic web palette…
Building e-Commerce sites with open source
E-Commerce sites don’t have to cost as much as they used to. Seasoned web developers will tell you a shopping cart in the ol’ days would cost in the tens of thousands. One of the first e-commerce sites I worked on progressed into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, as the retailer kept finding a…