Tag Archives: Web Design

SEO 101: Love Your Body

Now that we’ve explored how you can use your HEAD content to improve search engine listings, let’s move along to the BODY portion of your HTML code. Even if you never touch a META tag, you can still get good … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Use Your HEAD, Part V: Meta Description

Like the TITLE tag, the META Description tag was once looked upon as an afterthought, something you played around with when you had nothing better to do with your time. Today, however, the Description tag is far more important to … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Use Your HEAD, Part IV: Meta Keywords

In the strange and confusing world of META tags, there are two that every online marketer knows about, even if what they think they know is wrong. The two tags in question are: Meta Keywords, and Meta Description. Over the … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Use Your HEAD, Part III: Meta Tags and HTTP

Sorry for the delay on this installment. Things got kinda busy after New Years…  Last time around we established that META tags are how we add extra, non-essential information to web pages. This extra information is called metadata, and while … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Use Your HEAD, Part II: Meta Tags and Metadata

In my last post we took a look at some HTML source code and started exploring ways to optimize the HEAD content of your web pages. So far we’ve only looked at how to use the TITLE tag, but in … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Use Your HEAD (Tags, that is…) Part I – The TITLE

We have entered the part of this series on search engine optimization where you need to have some basic knowledge of how web pages are built. I’m not foolish enough to expect that you will become an über scripter (meaning … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Weaving Your Keywords Into Your Website

By now you’re probably sick to the teeth with background information. You want to “get your hands dirty” and start applying all this search engine optimization theory in your website. Fear not! If it’s dirt you want, it’s dirt you’re … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Text Trumps for Search Engine Optimization

My last three posts on search engine optimization have dealt with gathering information about your customers or clients, their wants, needs and surfing habits. To help you understand why I keep emphasizing text, text and more text, let’s take a … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Making Web Analytics Work For You

The past two articles have talked about what you can do to figure out your customers’ needs based on your own knowledge and expertise. But there is another very important way that you can discover what your customers want: analyze … Continue reading

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SEO 101: Finding Your Keywords and Phrases

Identifying the best key words and phrases for your website is a huge part of search engine optimization, and another area that is grossly misunderstood. If you’ve done the homework assignment given at the end of my last post, you … Continue reading

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