Archive for February, 2009

Google Announces the Canonical Tag

Thursday Google announced support for the “canonical tag” which is essentially a tag to tell Google and the other two search engines which version of a url you want crawled or indexed. In theory, this should help with duplicate content issues, but is this something you want to try?

How to make an SEO friendly WordPress Blog

So, you want to start a blog, and make sure it gets noticed by google? It’s actually easier than you think, and you can do it absolutely free. I’ll show you how to install wordpress and tweak it for good SEO, so it gets picked up by google, and you start getting more traffic to your blog!

How to install WordPress

Want to know how to install WordPress on your website? It’s super easy! First off, here is what you’ll need: A webserver running PHP 4.3 or greater A webserver with mysql 4.0 or greater. That’s it! While I would recommend using Apache under Linux, it’s not required. I’m going to show how to install it [...]

What you should know before hiring an SEO

So, are you thinking about hiring an SEO? As more and more small businesses look for opportunities to grow, the term SEO (Search Engine Optimization) always seems to come up. Someone has a story about some business who made millions off tweaking a meta tag, and people get very excited.