Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Many of you are getting ripped off by your web design (or hosting) companies, and you don't even know it. A while back on my SEO blog I talked about the benefits of doing some minor PageRank sculpting to your site. Another simple piece you could add to that is ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
One of the most talked about features of Google Chrome is the rather innovative home page. It shows your nine most often viewed sites, along with some goodies along the sidebar. The sidebar can include quick-search boxes for sites you often search. As often as I'm searching our church site, ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I need to go to Dunwoody UMC tomorrow for a seminar, so I went to their site to pull up directions. My GPS is dead, so I'm having to do it the "old-fashioned" way by looking up directions on-line. :)
When they changed to their new design a few years ago, ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
We all know that links make the world go round -- get more links to your site, and you'll start ranking better. Well, we're gonna help you out.
We've installed a script that shows the "Top Commentators" on the site over the past month. Those that leave the most comments to ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
I've read a lot of comments over the last few weeks with wild theories about how PageRank works. Some things I've heard:
appropriate content
good design
don't use flash
get incoming links
good meta tags
Four of those are completely wrong. One is right -- incoming links. When calculating PageRank, all that matters are the links ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
I just realized I've forgotten to mention two small tips for helping your site rank better in the search engines.
The first is a very common one, and over time could help a little bit. This is to have all of your "yoursite.com" traffic redirect to "www.yoursite.com". This ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2005
More and more often, people are turning to Google to find their new church. It's important that you think about what search terms people might use to find a church like yours, then make sure your church ranks well for those terms.A common search term for finding a new church ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
Search Engine Optimization (or, "SEO") has changed a lot in the last few years. Heck, it's changed a lot in the last few weeks! Keeping your church site listed well in the search engines is a very useful (and free) way to get people to visit your site. Many ...
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