Posted by Akshay Sura on Nov 03, 2009
While you want your website to pop with catchy introductions and pithy prose that attracts the eye, when it comes to grabbing the interest of search engine spiders, a few small paragraphs of text on a graphics-rich page is not going to cut it.
Some webmasters get a great site, make sure it's got the right structure for search engines and uses the appropriate elements, then they get stuck.
In order to really catch the attention of the search ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Mar 16, 2009
The current explosion in eCommerce has highlighted the advantages of and excellent Content Management System (CMS) like Sitecore.
For businesses that consider their website and their customers who contact them online to be an integral part of their business, using a content management system is only logical. It will allow those businesses to provide a seamless, high quality online experience that open source or low-end solutions simply can't ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Jan 26, 2009
SEO is all about optimizing ones website to the highest order of ranking in the search results. Consequently, if your website can manage to achieve that position, its impact on your business will be profound. However, the bad news is, there are very few people who actually realize its importance.
There are a number of strategies through which one can optimize their own website. Of these, the one that is worth mentioning is the “Cloud”. Many ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Dec 18, 2008
In some of my previous posts, I have discussed about the factors that help in getting a site optimized to the highest rank in the Google search pages. Today we will be discussing about the ranking algorithms that Google uses to find the relevant results for your search query. The latest on the block being Latent Symantec Indexing or LSI. Initially the search engines solely looked at the frequency of the search query text in the web pages but ...
Posted by Jeffrey Smith on Nov 17, 2008
The value of a great title for SEO purposes is invaluable. The title is the first thing a search engine sees to determine (what is this page about) and how does it relate to the sites theme and the keywords contained within the page.
Be Specific
A diffused title does not provide clarity for the reader or a search engine spider, so as far as first impressions are concerned, this is crucial to set the stage for short-term and long-term ...
Posted by Jeffrey Smith on Nov 01, 2008
Managing an SEO campaign boils down to measuring and managing key performance indicators. Rather than focusing on one keyword for example, optimize an entire array of related keywords.
Rather than looking for links obsessively, focus on capping the link flow and internal linking within your own site to seal up any hemorrhages your website may have. By doing this, your pages become less dependent on external links (granted they have ...
Posted by randfish on Oct 27, 2008
The Problem: You run a website that allows for user-generated content like job listings, rental properties, classified ads, personals or even UGC products (think eBay or Etsy). Thoughtless users, thinking only of themselves and the time they're going to save, wreck your SEO by posting the same content they've put up on ten of your competitor's sites. This creates duplicate content issues for you instead of that dream of Web 2.0 SEOs - free, ...
