To me there used to be a big difference, now there isn’t a difference. Seems that SEO has gone to the way side unless you have Google Ads on your site. If you don’t support Google you seem to fail in the Game of marketing your website. Well frankly I think this way of thinking is BullShit. I have come to this realization after watching a video sent to me. I’ll link to it later:
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Webmasters oversee all the features of a website. They solve technical problems, approve site content and work with designers to make sure the site looks great no matter what browser is used.
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Are you done with your hard work in designing and developing a wholesome web experience, not only to satisfy your creative niche, but also to offer users a unique and worthy web experience? Do you feel like ready to take a plunge into the fathomless sea of virtual world, known as World Wide Web? Well, it is better if you undergo a final inspection of your arsenal base if you do not feel comfortable with the idea of Web Redesign after some time.
Given below is a list of aspects that you shall give special consideration before formally launching your website on World Wide Web.
Title Tags and Meta Data
Title tags, along with Meta Data constitute one of the most important aspects of a website concerning SEO (Search Engine Optimization). If not taken well care of, these elements can serve to affect your website optimization, thus keeping you behind from your competitors. Title tags serve to inform search engines about the nature of content that populates a particular web page. So, better the description, better the results.
Browser Compatibility
Websites often run across Cross browser compatibility, i.e. the ability of a website to work perfectly fine with different browsers. Quite often, inexperienced web developers develop a website that works in perfect harmony with one browser, while fails pathetically with others. Thus, make sure that your website is not only compatible with all major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc, but also major mobile web browsers as well.
Don’t be content with your Content
Everyone working within the realms of virtual world is familiar with the importance of Content, as they say “Content is the King”. Therefore, make sure to eliminate any contextual or grammatical mistakes present in your content. Even a minor mistake leaves major impact on the minds of visitors.
Link Efficiency
Make sure to have properly working links within your website. Nothing irritates a user more than broken links. Check out each link populated on your website to make sure that every link leads to the proper landing page before making your site live.
Programs
This is a pet peeve of mine, if you use a program like Front Page, NOF, Web Editor or any of the 1000′s out there please remove it from your source code. If I see it I am going to assume you don’t know what you are doing and Engines will pick this up as well and think your content was pre generated, this makes you go downhill in the SEO game.
404 Error Page
Make sure that you address your users when they land on this particular page. Try to comfort them by stating a logical reason for any problem and guide them back to the website by providing a link to home page or any other landing page.
(I am working on this for my site. Just hard to find time with all the new clients I have)
This is not a complaint, this is the confessions of a one man show!
Working on these guidelines can help any individual or website design companies to make sure things are set right before launching of a website.
This article was sent to me via Email and according to my dashboard has been written many times. I couldn’t give credit because I don’t know who to give credit to. Please contact me with the original to be given credit.
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Now the old adage is the more traffic you have the more you will earn. To this I have to say Yes and No. There are many sites that have thousands of hits and day and don’t make a penny. Why? Well there could be a number of reasons for this. Most often the case is one of untargeted traffic. That means the visitors that visit your site can’t find on your site anything of interest to them. They may have entered your site via Search engine, and the keywords that brought them don’t match the content you have on your site. Another factor might be that your site lacks any unique content. Putting the same content on your site ,that is on every site out there. That is a “Do not do” in the Search engine traffic world.. Without further ado lets look over some important points.
Now what has helped me a lot is to integrate a blog into every website that I have. The reason behind this is that a blog is generally much easier to regularly update. The most important thing is search engines love sites and treat them better where the owner is looking after. That means I would recommend updating your new freelance or design blog with a new story or article every 2nd day or at least three times a week. Not doing it everyday gives you more time to put together more interesting and riveting stories. Now the most important part of this method is write your own articles! I can’t stress this enough. Fresh Content is the most important of all. In my experience the worst time waster move I have made was to try to build auto blogs using those content scrapers. Purest nonsense the only gaining out of the transaction is the one selling you the kit. I like many believed the lies of many of those Affiliate marketing product producers, don’t fall for the same thing.
If you Blog please don’t just create it and leave it, as I said you need to advertise it, post it to twitter feed, I always use the @ a popular person just so I can get a few extra reads. Same with Facebook hit one of your friends who has a lot of contacts, let them know you are doing so as well. Ask for friends to help you promote your business. Now remember I am 100% self taught and I learn as I go, therefore hiring me to do your SEO work is cheaper as it is a learning process for both of us!
It’s been a difficult couple of weeks over at Microsoft with the official pulling of the plug on the Kin project followed closely by a round of layoffs. But the latest report from Hitwise on the U.S. search market may help brighten the mood a little bit — at least by a few percentage points.
That’s how much Microsoft’s search engine Bing gained in June, recording a 7-percent growth to claim 9.85 percent of the U.S. market. Google still dominates with 71.65 percent of the market share, but its position actually slipped in June with a 1-percent drop.
Microsoft’s new search partner Yahoo! sits between Google and Bing with 14.37 percent of the market share, and no change in June, and Ask.com rounds out the list with a 2.19-percent share. All things considered, Microsoft has to be satisfied with Bing’s progress as it heads into its search partnership with Yahoo! later this summer.