SEO Tips: Do you three-way?

If you have a website and know anything about how Google works, you know that in order to get your site at the top of the SERP’s, you must have quality content and backlinks pointing to your site. It used to be that in order to get links of any kind, webmasters would engage in reciprocal backlinks—“you link to my site” and “I will link to yours.” But in recent years, it seems that Google has started to cancel ranking power and dish out penalties when using reciprocal linking. One way to avoid this and still get a good quality score is implementing three way linking. Three way...

Google Has Plenty of Competition

Google Has Plenty of Competition When we think of Google’s competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft often come immediately to mind. We think of other search engines. There’s no question that Google is (by far) dominating this space. What do you think Google’s greatest source of competition is?  Share your thoughts . We all know that Google has its hands in many other projects beyond search, but even in search itself, it is not impossible that another could come along and win people over. Microsoft’s trying with Bing…(read...

Web Design Tips: 5 favorite webmaster tools

Are you a web designer or webmaster looking for online tools to make your life easier? Here are five of my favorites: 1. BrowserCam To see what your website looks like in a variety of browsers and platforms, check out Browsercam. For a nominal fee, you can test your site on any browser, operating system, PDA or Blackberry, create screenshots, and check dynamic functionality. 2. Color Combos Stumped on what colors to use? Check out www.colorcombos.com This site will allow you to test different color combinations to see how they work together on the screen. Choose colors from the combo...

SEO Toolbox

A Niche Marketer’s SEO Toolbox Each day there are hundreds of newcomers to SEO. Most of these newcomers have no idea what they’re doing. Luckily, there are a ton of SEO tools that can help…  Read...

Web Development Tutorials

Web Development Tutorials using Microsoft Technologies … Here are several Tutorials and Articles on Web Development using Microsoft Technologies, at Microsoft Developer Network, covering various Web Development topics and techniques using Microsoft. ASP .NET is a Web application framework …Read...

Cloaking Text

One of the key elements of a sales or squeeze page is trying to eliminate too much scrolling below the fold because of an abundance of text that distracts the consumer from buying your product. However, you still want keyword-rich text to get a high quality score from Google. How do you accomplish this? Simple—cloaking text. Now before any SEO experts get into an uproar about how this is blackhat SEO, this method is used all the time on YouTube to hide video descriptions. Here is how it works: Insert this javascript into the head tags of your webpage: Also insert this CSS into the head...

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Photos for Your Website

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing web design Photography | web … Photography can either make or break a web design. This starts with the photographer and the camera, but more than likely, photos coming straight from the…..(read...

SEO Tips: 3 easy SEO tactics for your website

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a dynamic process which always has evolving trends and techniques for high Page Rank and search engine placement. Here are three easy SEO tactics that you may or may not be using for your website: Rel=Nofollow Tag: Although the rel=nofollowtag was introduced by Google as a means to counter link spam you can also try using this tag if you want your internal pages to receive “link juice” or Google Page Rank. The primary function of this tag is to instruct most search engines that a link should not influence the link target’s ranking in...

Web form for non-programmers

If you are a website designer and need a contact form for your clients, try Tectite.  It’s free, has a long history of having no security vulnerabilities, comes with built-in spam features, and has guaranteed support.  I have been using Tectite for years–seriously, there is no better form processing script out there.  For more information,...

Favorite SEO plugins for Wordpress

Want to improve the SEO for your Wordpress blog? Here are 5 of my favorite Wordpress plugins that can give your blog the added boost it needs to get to the top of the search engines: Meta Robots WordPress plugin – Adds meta tags automatically to posts HeadSpace 2 – HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. SEO Title Tag – SEO Title Tag makes it easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. Cross-Linker – The Cross-Linker plugin is designed to automatically hyperlink selected words. ...

Why Use CSS?

When I first started web designing around 2001, I always designed my sites using tables. The reason for this is simple: at the time, browser support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) was limited, and as a novice designer, I found tables easy and quick to implement. In the past couple of years I have finally made the switch and now design entirely with CSS. (with maybe a table or two sprinkled throughout) For those who have used CSS for any amount of time, I am sure you are thinking “What took you so long?” For others,you may not be intimately familiar with the benefits of CSS. The reasons...

Virus Alert!

A new virus has managed to furtively place malicious Javascript code on thousands of popular websites such as ColdwellBanker.com, Variety.com and Tennis.com.  Known as Gumblar, JSRedir-R, Martuz and Beladin, the virus tries to infect site visitors through Internet Explorer and then attempts to use their PC to spread the infection to other sites using the computer’s FTP client. Once a PC is running this malware, the hacker code tries to trick the user into opening infected PDF and Flash files.  Once opened, the infected files install a keylogger or other malware.  In the case of Gumblar,...