Technical SEO / PHP Developer
I have been building websites since 1998, yes that is a long time, I have built up a pretty vast knowledge of how they work. You might say, “I have a very particular set of skills” which allows me to find ways to break websites solely for the purpose of either: Avoiding those problems when developing, […]
In this Google Analytics (GA) Events Example I will be showing how to figure out where people are clicking. On many sites there are a variety of ways for someone to get from one page to another. In this example we look at a home page example that has 4 links above the fold that […]
As an SEO it is useful for me to have browser with multiple personas so I can see how things change based on what has happened previously. I use Firefox as my primary browser, IE for different types of searches, and Google Chrome as my “never click on anything because it will alter your next […]
One of the things I like about WordPress is the ability to have pretty SEO friendly URL’s. One of the things I do not like is when people use the date as part of their permalink and here’s why: It dates your items, so re-posting on Twitter or FB can look out dated In the […]
Here are my notes and take aways from the SEOMoz ‘Effective Link Building‘ Mozinar with @JustinRBriggs What makes an effective link builder: Someone who gets the internet and is creative Spends a lot of time on the internet Good technical skills Sociable Geek Ingenuity Hustler Stop getting links and start earning them! ? How […]
I noticed recently that one of my sites was showing a very old date for a post in Google’s Results page, and guess what I’m not alone, Google had been hitting a lot of people with the date issue and it hasn’t even been their fault… This had me a little confused since it is […]
These are just a list of items I’m taking away from the May 25th, 2011 SEOmoz webinar “New Opportunities in Google Search” Video Link >> Local Maps: Google is showing 4 different types of mixed results for a local search, Use consistent information across the board, look for places to get citations.. Ex: Formspring.com, put […]
I’m a data nut. I believe that nothing says more about a website than the data. People can tell me all they want that a website looks good, is easy to navigate, people spend a lot of time on it, etc. until they have a sore throat, but if there is no data to back […]
Dangling links are simply links to a page that is either non-indexable because of: a robots.txt Disallow statement a meta noindex some other method of stopping a page from being indexed a page that has not been indexed yet a page that does not link to anything else These pages are sort of like an […]
