For those of you still following “Ianism,” and those that might be interested (if you have a business website, you should be), we’ve published an in-depth article on website speed issues. We’re seeing so many “new” web development agencies come along that really have no clue about the importance of website speed, image sizes, correct
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Unless you are into web development, you probably won’t be interested in this post – but I’m writing it mainly for myself, so I can find this awesome tool quickly, the next time I need it. When you create a new website for someone, it’s likely the new URL’s of the site will be different
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I have been building a website that’s been doing quite nicely for some search terms (surprisingly well, actually) that is about a year old, has had no “Black Hat” SEO tactics applied to it, but does have very high quality well researched articles, many of which are over 1,000 words in length. A couple of
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Don’t you just hate it when you have an agreement with someone and in good faith, you stick to that agreement then discover the other has blatantly infringed the agreement? That has happened to me recently with regard to domain names. It’s nice that I have the agreement in writing and is signed along with
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The last week or see has seen a ton of weirdness going on with Google. I’ve been seeing a lot of stragness in the Google SERP’s on many many searches, and it looks like Google rolled out a “Penguin” update, and then did something else.. but they seem kind of messed up right now. Another
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I am personally finding better results when using the search engine Bing recently. However, Google still has a huge gigantic market share of search results and I doubt that will change anytime soon. I realize that my opinion is subjective – what does “better results” actually mean? Well to me, it means I am getting
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… for links that are so called “dodgy” or from “bad neighbourhoods.” I have seen so many web masters now worrying about their backlink profile, and for good reason. Google has not been very clear about how a bunch of backlinks that they don’t trust, could affect your own site’s search engine rankings. In the
Google – The Stupidity of Even Thinking Of Backlink Penalties… Read More »
Back in about 1997, when most North Americans really had no clue about the Internet, I was introduced to it by a local service provider who built my first website for a small business I had back then. I was one of the first “Custom Fishing Rod Builders” to have a website, and it certainly
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About an hour or so ago, I happened to check my twitter feed and noted that within the two minutes prior, he had tweeted the following message: “Minor weather report: We pushed 1st Penguin algo data refresh an hour ago. Affects <0.1% of English searches. Context: http://goo.gl/4f7Pq” ~ https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/206232437427154944 Many of us in the SEO
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Google keeps putting out posts and guidelines and talk about “quality” (however that is defined – quality in this case is subjective and how one ever create a logarithm that can precisely define it is beyond me), but I know quality, at least to me, when I see it. I also know junk when I
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