Content Writing Made Easy - Using A Text Document To Create Content
October 29, 2008 by Victoria Stankard
Filed under Content Creation
We all know how much time, effort and savvy must go into getting qualified traffic to your website. So, dropping the ball on weak content is a mistake you definitely don’t want to make. Fresh quality content that is relevant to what the pages of your site are about is key for the search engines as well as the visitors that come to your site. You want to make sure that once you’ve done all the work of attracting visitors to your site, they’re not disappointed in the quality of the...
Google SEO Training - Understanding Your Website’s Visitors
October 27, 2008 by Victoria Stankard
Filed under Google SEO Training, SEO Training
Google offers many services to help you create and share exceptional content with your users as well as better understand your website and competitors in your market space. Sometimes, your site could improve with just a bit more pizazz or with additional activity. Google’s Services You’ll want to check out Google Services such as: YouTube - Use for video sharing Picasa - Use for organizing and editing digital photos SketchUp - Use to create, modify and share 3D models. Calendar...
WordPress SEO - XML Sitemap Configuration
October 23, 2008 by Michael Stankard
Filed under WordPress SEO
Along with XML RPC, WordPress can also keep search engines updated every time you update or add a post or page. There is a third party plugin that creates and manages XML Sitemaps. The home page of the plugin creator Arne Brachhold is here. You can download the plugin from his page to get the latest version, but if you are running WordPress version 2 or higher I suggest you grab this version of the XML Sitemap Plugin. We have made a very minor tweak to the plugin that works with the robots.txt function...
Google SEO Training - All About Webmaster Central
October 23, 2008 by Victoria Stankard
Filed under Google SEO Training
Webmasters have a lot to consider when structuring a website. To help you make your site more powerful, narrow down problems as well as learn from other webmasters, there’s an entire area of Google built specifically for webmasters. Google Webmaster Central offers a comprehensive set of tools, the official webmaster blog, discussion group and help center that offers information in over 24 languages. And best of all, it’s totally free. Google Webmaster Tools You’ll want to get your...
WordPress XML RPC Configuration
October 23, 2008 by Michael Stankard
Filed under WordPress SEO
WordPress uses XML RPC to keep your blog updated in search engines and feed directories. Every time that you add a post or modify an existing page or post WordPress automatically “pings” every site that is included within your ping settings. WordPress comes default with only 1 ping directory: pingomatic. While pingomatic is said to reach out to everyone, we have found that webmasters must include all the major ping sites to insure that they are all notified when your site has an update....
How You Can Dominate The Searches With SEO By You
October 23, 2008 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Home Page Content
Welcome to SEO By You. We are in the process of building our content to help users take their websites to the top of the search engines. Visit often as we are adding new content on a daily basis. The focus of this site is to give useful information to webmasters and bloggers to help them gain top placement. We use WordPress as our content management system of choice, but our system will work on any type of content system. Call 727-251-2058 if you have any questions. Read More →
Google SEO Training - Page Ranking
October 22, 2008 by Victoria Stankard
Filed under Google SEO Training
Webmasters typically want their pages to rank higher in Google’s search results. Pages get listed in the search results based on relevance and importance. A page is considered relevant if it matches both the interest of the user and the query, which is relevant to the phrase that’s typed into Google. How Google Determines The Importance of Each Page Because there are so many web pages out there and for many queries there are literally millions of relevant pages, Google has to narrow...
Google SEO Training - Accessibility & Duplicate Content
October 21, 2008 by Victoria Stankard
Filed under Google SEO Training, SEO Training
You want to make sure that the appropriate content on your site is accessible to users and to Google. You want both Googlebot and your users, including those using screen readers and mobile devices to be able to easily navigate from page-to-page and enjoy the core content throughout your website. Accessability for Googlebot It’s important to make your site accessible so that it’s a good experience for your users as well as to help Google understand your pages and list more of them. Therefore,...
Google SEO Training How Googlebot Finds Your Site
October 21, 2008 by Victoria Stankard
Filed under Google SEO Training
Once you’ve finished building an amazing website and are now ready to have it indexed in Google, you’ll want to make sure that Google knows about your site’s pages. Chances are good that Google may already know of your pages if at least one other quality website has included a relevant link to your your site on their site. Of course, acquiring such links is a great way for Google to learn about your website and pages. XML Sitemaps So that people know about all of your pages, you...

