Archive for August, 2008
Google Suggest Is Now The Default Search Option
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Google has started to roll out it’s suggest feature as the default search box behavior. I noticed this yesterday while doing a search on the generic Google.com Interestingly this feature is only set to suggest keywords and key phrases only on the home page. Once a result is displayed then it is the normal keyword [...]
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Finally, persistent storage for your Amazon EC2 instance. Amazon has released EBS, Amazon Elastic Block Store, which fixes the only stumbling block to using Amazon EC2.
For a while now Amazon has been defending their computing cloud web services but the voices complaining against the lack of persistent storage has been growing louder and louder each [...]
SEO Checklist For Your Website Redesign
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
All right, you’ve decided to redesign your website and you’ve found the perfect designer or design company to do so. Excellent, a site redesign is sometimes a necessary step as your business grows but what you should be careful of is to not lose the goodwill that you have built up with the search engines.
The [...]
SEO Tips For Geo Targeting
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
As an SEO, I often get requests to geo target a site for specific keywords. There are many many ways to let Google know that your site is specific to a particular area/region. The following are a few of my preferred options that I use when I go about geo targeting a website.
Google Webmaster tools [...]
SEO Myths Busted In The Busby SEO Challenge
Monday, August 18th, 2008
One of the biggest benefits of participating in the Busby SEO Challenge is the opportunity to learn and try out some of your theories. A unique aspect of a SEO Contest is the fact that you are competing with a large number of SEO consultants, in this case about 500 odd participants to rank a [...]
Are You Planning On Changing Your Web Hosting Company?
Friday, August 15th, 2008
So it’s that time again. You just realized your current web hosting provider just does not cut it. It’s time to move your hosting account with all your sites or site to another company. If you are doing this for the first time then you’re probably wondering what you need to be doing. Let’s take [...]
Is It The End of SEO?
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
I’ve been reading many reports of late that talk about the SEO bubble and that we are looking at a lean period when many corporations will soon move SEO in house leading to a burst in the SEO bubble.
Somehow I don’t think this is going to happen any day soon. Yes, there is an explosion [...]
Must Have Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Installing and setting up a WordPress blog is a peice of cake. Many web hosts offer a one click option to install a WordPress blog for your domain. One of the reasons WordPress has become the tool of choice as far as blogging is concerned is the availability of an extensive library of plugins to [...]
SEO For The Mobile World
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Mobile phones and internet applications for mobile phones are spreading like wild fire. We are at the beginning of the next cycle of internet phenomenons. There is no time like now to start preparing to climb on the next bandwagon. Soon we will have more and more sites looking to convert from their current clunky [...]
Optimizing Your Meta Description
Friday, August 8th, 2008
One of the most abused tags on a page is the meta description tag. Long long ago, actually a few years ago, you could get away with keyword stuffing your meta description and see a positive effect on the search engine result pages.
Over time Google and the rest got a little smarter and now the [...]
