Testing You Website
September 22, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
I recently read this nice article about testing your website. It’s pretty good and I highly recommend it. A couple points i gleaned from Daniel Waisberg, the author. 1. Your site is a laboratory, not a sculpture. Sometimes we’ll have a client that wants their site, or a page to be 100% perfect before it [...]
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Canonical Tag and Duplicate Content
September 16, 2009 - 8:08 am by toddjensen
Greg Grothaus of Google explains very well Google’s philosophy of duplicate content. They realize that a lot of duplicate content is not manipulative but simply webmasters trying to take the same content and make is useful in different formats. For example, if you have content on a page about “10 tips on package fragile glass [...]
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Another Reason to Avoid Microsites
September 11, 2009 - 1:24 pm by toddjensen
I know, lately our blog is starting to look like the SEOmoz love festival. But, I do love those guys and festivals are fun…but I digress… Microsites don’t pass the link juice onto your main site like you may think. Instead, integrate your blog or microsite into your main site, and get all the links, [...]
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Cool WP Plugin- Broken Links Be Gone!
August 31, 2009 - 11:21 am by toddjensen
It’s been around for a bit, but we’re now using the Broken Link Checker WordPress plugin. It’s a great addition, as it automatically notifies you when a link is broken on your blog or site. I have it set up to check the site every 3 days, as you can easily have it check your [...]
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Twitter Tools Plugin for WP
August 4, 2009 - 10:13 am by toddjensen
Found a hot twitter plugin for wordpress. It’s called Twitter Tools and is a compilation of everything you need to keep your twitter updated with blog posts and blog updated with twitter posts. It’s my favorite so far. If you know of any other really good ones, I’d love to hear your suggestions. AlexKing.org’s cool [...]
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Large eCommerce Sites and SEO
August 4, 2009 - 1:04 am by toddjensen
I like this video about large eCommerce sites and SEO. Trying to get large numbers of products on a site and still have the site relatively ‘flat’ is a difficult thing. These guys share some good tips on doing it with sitemaps and more. Check it out. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Architecture for Commerce with [...]
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Twitter Does First Real, Real-Time Search
July 30, 2009 - 2:12 pm by toddjensen
Twitter added a new search feature, and I like it. They made their mark on the blogosphere with their micro-blogs and now they are doing it again with search. When you want the most current information, and want to know what’s the buzz right now…twitter search is perfect. Up to the second results that grab [...]
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