I'm Jeremy Morgan, a Web Developer / SEO from Portland Oregon. For the last 15 years I've developed websites for everything from one person garage businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. I share what I've learned over the years to help other web professionals be successful on the web.
In the design of a product or campaign, most of us strive to create the best product we can create at the time. This can range from really good quality, to horrible, and it depends on the amount of time, effort and money the creator of the product is willing to spend.
So by now nearly everyone has heard of Bing, the new “decision engine” from Microsoft. It’s an obvious challenge to Google, and naturally SEOs and Promoters want to know the answer to the obvious first response “how do I optimize for it”. I will offer up some suggestions and theory.
According to SEOMoz, this is a list of the top 500 most important pages of the internet. But how do you get on the list? At first glance it looks like backlinks are a big factor, so what strategy should you take? Here is a new idea.
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?
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!
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 [...]
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.
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
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 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.
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?
