Get 45 backlinks in under a minute

Want to get some free backlinks to your website quickly and easily?  Go to http://www.megafoo.com/free-links/ and submit your homepage URL in the box. Your URL will then be submitted to 45 sites which includes Whois, Alexa, Robtex and other HTML validator sites. Click on your directory page and you will see what sites your domain is listed on.  You then want to build some backlinks to that Megafoo directory page.  You can do this quickly by submitting to social bookmarking sites, commenting on forums or blogs or building profile links. Viola!  After a few weeks, you should have some...

Google introduces “Browser Size”

If you want to understand how visitors see your website on different browsers, check out Google’s new tool called “Browser Size.”  Browser Size is based on a sample of data from visitors to Google.  Based on a given point in the browser, the tool will tell you what percentage of users can see it. This tool can help you when designing pages to make sure you minimize scrolling and that the important parts of the page such as a “call to action” button are always prominent.  For more information, click on the link below: Browser Size Share and...

Free backlinks

Looking for a way to promote your business and get backlinks for free? Check out Article Alley, an article syndication site which offers free articles from thousands of authors for use on websites. Authors can post free articles with keyword backlinks to the directory database without any membership and those looking for Free Content can choose from thousands of articles on a variety of topics. Article Alley is a great way to generate more interest in your business, supply fresh content for your blog, and bring in more traffic to your site. To find out more visit:...

How to increase your online sales

You have just created your online store with thousands of products, beautiful pictures and keyword rich descriptions. But for some reason, you aren’t converting as many sales as you would like. It could be the product you are selling, but more than likely, your store does not have optimum usability. Here are some ways to make your store more user-friendly and increase your online sales: 1. Have a visible search box – Some people enjoy browsing through an online store, but the majority are “search dominant”. They want to find what they’re looking for quickly rather than browsing...

Web Design Tips: 6 favorite .htaccess tricks

.htaccess may be a simple ASCII text file, but it’s a powerful tool used on an Apache Web Server which can alter the configuration of your files and directories. With some simple rewrite rules in your .htaccess file, you can do many advanced features from creating custom error pages to setting timezones and emails. Here are 6 of my favorite .htaccess tricks: SEO Friendly 301 permanent redirects for bad/old links and moved links  (replace the link in the example with your own) Redirect 301 /d/file.html http://www.bcdesignsit.com/r/file.html Prevent Files image/file hotlinking and...

Get on the 1st page of Google quickly

Do you want to get on the first page of Google quickly with a certain keyword?  Of course!  Everyone does.  What many people don’t know, however, is that there are two main determining considerations you need to evaluate that will make or break your search engine optimization goals: # of competitors and strength of competitors. When trying to choose keywords and determining whether or not you can rank for that particular keyword, you first must determine how many competing pages there are for that keyword.  There are several different tools on the market today that can do this for you...

Looking for free wordpress templates?

If you love blogging with Wordpress, then you are probably always on the hunt for the latest and greatest wordpress templates.  Here are my two favorite resources for free wordpress templates that have some of the most creative and professional designs I have seen: http://www.ezwpthemes.com/ http://www.skinpress.com Happy blogging! Share and...

Want free unlimited backlinks?

Here is a great way to get free unlimited backlinks to your site.  A growing number of blogs are using the “KeywordLuv” plugin that helps reward visitors who comment on their blog by separating their name from their keywords. So for example, if I go to a blog that has the KeywordLuv plug-in and comment, I will enter: Belinda@Web Design Tips in the name field.  (@ symbol is required for the backlinking to work)  The title of the comment in the blog would now look like:  Belinda from Web Design Tips says: This allows me to get a backlink for the term “web design...

Debunking the Duplicate Content Myth

For years, webmasters have speculated that Google penalizes websites for duplicate content. Not so, states Greg Grothaus of Google’s Search Quality team who has posted a video on the duplicate content myth and gives ways on how to avoid ranking issues. Grothaus states that Google does NOT penalize sites for having duplicate content and that even spam sites aren’t penalized by Google for duplicate content—they are being penalized for the spam itself. Some webmasters will use several different URL’s that are different, but show the same content. You won’t be penalized for using more...

Does Google use the keywords meta tag in web ranking?

Does Google use the keywords meta tag in web ranking? In a word, no.  According to Matt Cutts of Google, their search engine hasn’t paid attention to meta keywords for over a decade because the tag became so abused with keyword stuffing.  This doesn’t mean that Google ignores all meta tags.  They still pay attention to the “description” meta tag for search results snippets, although they still don’t use this tag either when determining ranking.  But even though Google.com disregards keyword meta tags, other search engines do not, which makes them still...