The Vizion Search Engine Optimization Blog
- 2008Jul31Search Engine Optimization Tip #5: Linking to your Home Page
Recently I decided to start compiling a series of search engine optimization tips. Each search engine optimization tip will be very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
For this fifth search engine optimization tip, I thought I would talk about linking to your home page. Your web site’s home page is the most important page on your web site. So, it is important to make sure that the search engines know that your most important web page is your home page. This sounds pretty obvious. However, it’s important to make sure that your internal linking is correct.Too often I see one simple change that can be made that can make a big difference in search engine rankings: change how you are linking to the home page of your site. What is the real home page of your site?
http://www.domain.com/ is your home page, not http://www.domain.com/index.html or http://www.domain.com/default.asp. As far as I am concerned, there is no logical reason to ever link to [...]
- 2008Jul30Search Engine Optimization Tip #4: The Meta Keywords tag
Recently I decided to start compiling a series of search engine optimization tips. Each search engine optimization tip will be very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
For this fourth search engine optimization tip, I thought I would talk about the meta keywords tag. Depending on who you talk to, some SEOs will tell you to use the meta keywords tag and some will tell you not to use the meta keywords tag. I personally still like to use add it to web pages. Here’s why:The meta keywords tag is still an acceptable, real meta tag. The meta keywords tag can be helpful in cases where pages are very light on content. By adding a meta keywords tag you have the opportunity to add additional content to the page and add related keywords. A Google engineer recently has told me that “they index everything on the page”, and I took that as meaning just that: they index all the content [...]
- 2008Jul29Search Engine Optimization Tip #3: Keywords on Your Web Page
Recently I decided to start compiling a series of search engine optimization tips. Each search engine optimization tip will be very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
For this third search engine optimization tip, I thought I would talk about your keywords on your web page. That’s right, it all about your keywords. In the first search engine optimization tip, I talked about your web page’s Title Tag and how it’s important to make sure that your keywords are in your title tag. In the second search engine optimization tip, I talked about the meta description tag and how it is important to use your keywords in your meta description tag. Well, in this third search engine optimization tip let’s talk about the keywords on your web page.
- 2008Jul28Search Engine Optimization Tip #2: The Meta Description Tag
Recently I decided to start compiling a series of search engine optimization tips. Each search engine optimization tip will be very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
For this second search engine optimization tip, I thought I would talk about your web page’s meta description tag.
- 2008Jul25Search Engine Optimization Tip #1: Your Web Page’s Title Tag
I’ve decided to start compiling a series of search engine optimization tips. Each search engine optimization tip will be very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
For this first search engine optimization tip, I thought I would talk about your web page’s title tag. Let’s focus right now on the title tag alone, not on a specific title tag on a specific web page of your site.
- 2008Jul22Try something new for dinner tonight
Normally I wouldn’t write about a restaurant just like this, but after this past Saturday’s dining experience, I simply must. The restaurant in question is called “A La Plancha” and located in Garland, TX. The cuisine is Central American and i have to say it was some of the best food I’ve had in a long time. Owner, Daname Lucas (also a Nicaraguan native), is also the chef and is assisted by her family who help cook and wait tables.
- 2008Jul11Google Closing Dallas Office
Google has decided to close their Dallas, Texas office. This is quite a surprise, especially because the Dallas/Fort Worth area has not seen a lot of the recession that the rest of the cities in the United States are seeing.
Mark Jackson, CEO of Vizion Interactive, had this to say about the closing of the Dallas Google office: - 2008Jul9Twitter Caught Spamming Google?
Since I am pretty active on many social networks, and since I generally use the same username on most social networks (like many people do), I find it necessary to monitor my user id. I like to watch how many times my username shows up in Google, among other places. I noticed recently that twitter.com has recently made a change to their site that is causing them to spam Google and the other search engines by allowing duplicate content to get indexed by the search engine spiders.
First off, here is a little history. I also like to watch my username in the search engine results pages because I am curious as to which profile of mine has more “link juice” or which one is considered to be more popular. Since I use the same username it is pretty easy for me to identify my profiles (or at least the profiles that I want people to know about). - 2008Jun30Google Affiliate Network has Launched via Performics
Google announced today that DoubleClick Performics is now the Google Affiliate Network. I just spoke with Durk Price of eAccountable who has launched 15 programs with the service over the past 12 months and is very glad that the network is now part of the Google brand. You can see the benefits that Durk has experienced using the network by reading eAccountable’s success story at the Google Affililate Network. - 2008Jun27New Survey Says Consumers Turning to Internet Because of Economy
A new June 2008 survey of 1243 Internet users reveals that consumers expect to reduce their overall spending in 2008. However, the respondents said that they will be decreasing their offline spending and not their online spending.
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