Forming Good Title Tags for Local Businesses
If you're looking for a quick improvement in your local business site's rankings and don't have a lot of time, you can't go wrong with making some simple improvements to your homepage title tag. The text within the title tags is one of the top signals used by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines to decide what keywords are relevant to a page, and it's also one of the most frequently neglected parts of a site design. If you have a good title tag, you can rank at the top of the search results for users seeking your business — and a bad title can leave you in the dark.
Below are a few details on how to make better titles and get your pages to rank higher.
Click to continue reading...
Whither DART Search?
SES San Jose 2008 is now in the books and another Google Dance -- that annual bash that provides us all with so much safe, clean YouTube fodder -- has come and gone. Among the various features and benefits -- upscale backyard barbecue fare, free beer, modified karaoke, dancing, and light shows -- is the most fascinating spectacle of all: Googlers meeting other Googlers. (Oftentimes, I ran across Googlers just sticking with their own little clique and talking among themselves, but what do you expect... it's a "campus".)
Google is such an enormous entity by now that it carries a real risk of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Overall, though, the company does a pretty good job of keeping its initiatives in sync.
But if Googlers are always needing to meet other Googlers for the first time, imagine the effort of digesting a large company in the digital ad space whose founding predated Google's by two years, and which brings to the table a variety of legacy technologies and platforms along with its own corporate culture. Googlers, meet DoubleClickers!
Click to continue reading...
My Umbraco Experience with Shared Hosting
I was so excited to start my Umbraco project to move WebDatamation site from DotNetNuke to Umbraco CMS, until I hit a brick wall. Umbraco can’t work 100% on Medium trust.
Now this shocks me. Most of the personal websites and small business websites are hosted on Shared hosting facilities and most of them don’t support ...
World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web consortium is an international standard consortium which works toward web development standards with specific developing protocols and guidelines drafted under its web enhancement goal called ‘Web Interoperability’.
Tim Berners-Lee – the director of World Wide Web or W3 Consortium, along with other experts in the web field, created this dedicated platform to generate ...
The Trendy Concept of Behavioral Marketing
The term ‘behavioral marketing’ is being increasingly heard across the world these days. The entire concept of behavioral marketing involves noticing consumer’s online behavior and then target them using advertising which is tailor made for their online conduct. It goes needless to say that the whole process is done unobserved by the consumer.
It won’t be ...
How Can Joomla Web Design Help a Start Up Company?
Web design companies are using Joomla increasing to develop cutting edge websites for their customers. Joomla is a powerful content management system that is free to use.
Joomla is equally beneficial for a start up company or small business as it is for an established business. A Start up company (start-up venture) often has limited budget ...
Top 6 ways to increase traffic to your website
With the recent increase in internet usage and more recently in internet access via mobile devices, online marketing is becoming increasingly important to the success of any business today no matter how small or large.
Online marketing has evolved in recent years. The rise in the popularity of social networking phenomena and the resulting rise of ...
