Industry Update: Our friends over at TechEgo just launched their annual analysis of the top eCommerce platforms for 2011.  Magento continues its rise and dominance as the industries most popular platform. We’ve been building with Magento for years now and have to agree with the wisdom of the masses on this one. I’m still surprised [...]

Less than a year ago Google predicted the future of Display Ads online. They made 7 specific predictions about it’s growth and potential in a IAB MIXX keynote address. What is Display Advertising? In the spirit of engaging ads,  I’ve included Google’s short intro video to do the talking: Watching this market continue to grow [...]

In Part 2 of our review of Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Extension for Chrome, I cover features for design & development.  When you get into designing and developing your site, the extension really shows some useful information making developing or editing a page easier than ever. These features include: Edit CSS, Display ID & Class [...]

Yes, a Chrome extension that adds some SEO and design/development features that will make your life a little easier. Developer website: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ Best Features for SEO: The extension is pretty nice for some SEO quick glance analysis. Some of these best features include, Disable CSS, Display Alt Tags, Display Inline Tags and View Meta Tag [...]

Server Headings Checker overview A quick way to view a site’s status code is to use a free tool provided by seoconsultants.com (there are several other tools, I don’t like the incessant advertising on the page cluttering everything up, but I like the simplicity).  All you have to do is add the URL into the [...]

A little personal information here (not to worry, not too much info)…I haven’t been sleeping well lately. My wife says it’s because of my over consumption of caffeine. My incredulous response, “Pft! Sure, like caffeine makes it hard to sleep.” as I Super Big Gulp another 44 oz. of pure happiness. With that out of [...]

Although I use Safari on my Mac Book Air, I’ve been a loyal Firefox user on my PC laptop. I’ve looked at switching to Chrome for over a year, but the Firefox extensions that I love have kept me hooked. Well, that has changed with my favorite Firefox plug in, Firebug, losing it’s lead programmer. [...]

Basics: Ranks.nl webtools include a free version of their Keyword Density Analyzer. Currently, they are up to version 3.1 and include some very useful features. Using the tool is straighforward. Simply past a URL in the analyzer and past an optional focus term. The tool quickly looks over the page and reveals some basic information [...]

Dave Naylor’s Keyword Density Tool is another tool that many SEOs recommend while doing on-page analysis. It helps to determine how relevant a page is for a given keyword phrase. Let’s take a closer look. Basics: David Naylor’s free tool has grown into a pretty good part of any SEOs repertoire. Simply enter the URL [...]

SEOmoz Term Target Tool (Now On-Page Keyword Optimization) Basics: SEOmoz has a lot of fantastic SEO tools and one that we utilize quite a bit at Gravitate Online is their Term Target Tool. They’ve gone and changed the name of us, it’s now the On-Page Keyword Optimization tool. It’s especially helpful as it adds a [...]