Author Archive for Jeremy Morgan
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.
What the heck is bounce rate?
Bounce Rate is a web analytics term that defines how many people visit a page, and then leave that page without going anywhere else on your site. If someone lands on one of your pages and
You need Google Chrome
Ok, maybe need is strong word, but you should definitely check out Chrome, Google’s new web browser. I’ve downloaded it myself and found it to be pretty slick.
Google Launches Insight, a new keyword resource.
Google has recently launched insight, a new keyword tool that looks very promising. You can track interest over time, regional information and more. This can give you even more dimensions into your keyword marketing plan.
Should we be thinking about Cuil?
Cuil is a startup who has created a search engine they say can spider more content faster and cheaper than Google. They have received a surprising amount of press, most likely because some of the founders of cuil are ex employees of Google. Should we be paying attention?
Google Knol – What does it mean for SEO?
Last week, Google quietly released Knol, an online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. Immediately the SEO community started buzzing about it, and SEOs wondered how they can start utilizing it.
How to work with arrays in PHP
What is an array? Arrays are common to almost every programming language. An array is simply an ordered map of values, indexed so you can find these values, called elements. These elements can be of multiple datatypes, and can be ordered any way you want. Array ( [a] => 1 [b] => 2 [c] => [...]
