How to Design a Custom 404 Error Page
By Carissa Krause Have you ever been frustrated by trying to visit a particular web page and instead of being greeted with the content you are looking for you get a 404 page instead? Messages such as “Page Not Found” or “Requested URL not Found” can be extremely frustrating in your quest for a particular ...
I’m writing some new content for my website. Can you give some pointers for designing the layout of the pages?
When writing new content keep in mind how you typically read (or ‘scan’) a web page for the first time. Typically, people spend the first 8 to 12 seconds scanning the page to see if it contains what they are looking for. Studies show people scan the pages using an “F” pattern or “F Behavior”: ...
Winning Habits of Effective SEOs – How Do We Measure Up?
A recent article posted by Neil Patel titled “7 Habits of Highly Effective SEOs” caused us to stop and think. Mr. Patel asked, “Why are some of these SEOs good at what they do while others aren’t?” and answered his question by presenting 7 different effective SEO habits that lead to effective SEO. So how ...
What is the importance of keyword tags these days?
Keyword meta tags are included in the HTML code (source code) of each page: The original purpose of a keyword tag was to help Search Engines understand the content of the page by listing the most important words within the text. Over time people began to take advantage of boosting their listings by placing popular ...
Is it true that the size of a website affects its rankings?
This was true in previous years when big sites with a lot of pages always seemed to rank better than smaller sites. However, thanks to the sophistication of Search Engines, the quality of the website plays a much larger factor in determining rankings. Creating a lot of web pages just for the sake of having ...
4 Tips for Better SEO Content Writing
One of the main strategies during the on-site optimization stage of search engine optimization is SEO writing; creating new and engaging content for our clients’ websites. In some cases websites will have very little text. In other cases websites will have duplicate content taken from other websites such as their manufacturers’ sites or their franchisers’ ...
Is there a quick way to tell which of my web pages are indexed by Google?
Go to Google and search “Site:[website]”. For example: The search results list all of the pages that Google has in its index for your website. You should note that these pages are listed in order of importance, as determined by Google. ● ● ● For more information about Search Engine Optimization or any of our ...
SEO and Customer Retention – What do you do with your SEO traffic?
A recent article published by Search Engine Journal called Beyond SEO: Retaining the Visitor caught my attention. It was particularly interesting because I was just discussing one of our clients who is getting great visibility results in their SEO Campaign. However, it seems they are struggling with converting all their SEO generated traffic into customers. ...
What is the best way to switch over to a new domain name?
This is an extremely important question to answer because if changing your domain names is not done correctly, you risk losing the existing credibility and Page Rank that your web pages may already be enjoying. First we recommend having your web host include your new domain name in your hosting package as it saves time and ...
What is the benefit of RSS in SEO?
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way to distribute your content to other websites. The distribution is done by creating an XML feed that other sites or users can subscribe to. The SEO benefit for RSS feeds is that your content being distributed can include links with optimized anchor text to your website. This helps to ...
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