Web Design and Web Development for Barrie, Simcoe County and the World.

Each year, many in the blogging community post together to increase awareness for a common cause. This year the cause is Poverty. Since I love lists and don’t have a bunch of time to actually research and write an article of my own, I figured I’d provide a list of some articles worth reading related to fighting Poverty (and promoting Conservation, Sustainabilty etc. in the process):

• Building A Sustainable Economy
• Promoting Global Conservation
• Worldvision stories
• How to Fight Poverty: 8 Programs That Work
• One International - not an article but a cool site

Monday, 28 July 2008

I’m a huge fan of top 10 lists of all types from the classic Letterman to the modern Digg meme posts. So today I’ve compiled a list of some of the key points to consider when promoting link building for your site. The interesting “Art Imitating Life (or SEO)” bit here is that lists tend to be one of the more successful viral techniques for link building…which brings me to my Link Building List – and just to be different it’s a Top 11:

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Thursday, 22 May 2008

There are a lot of myths surrounding search engine optimization (SEO). I don’t mean to gripe about it, but I just have to set the record straight - it’s time to dispel these myths and get to the bottom of what’s really going to improve your SEO. The five myths that bug me the most pertain to Meta Tags, Keyword Density, Redirects, Duplicate Content, and Dynamic URLs. (and don’t even get me started on Alt Attributes!)

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Monday, 01 October 2007

So you’ve optimized your Web site structure using the tips from Part 1 of our Web Site Optimization Series, “Guide To Leveraging Your Web CMS For SEO“, and you’ve created a site that is prepared to deliver your content in the most Search Engine Friendly format possible. What do you do next? Optimize Your Content.

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Friday, 29 June 2007

Explaining the 15 basic Web content structure elements, why they are important, and how to use them within a Web content management system (Web CMS) for search engine optimization.
These days when people talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the first topic of conversation is keywords (with good reason). To most people, keyword optimization is arguably the most important factor in SEO.

However, before you jump on the keyword optimization bandwagon, you should first focus on leveraging all aspects of your Web CMS to build an SEO friendly Web site that can present your content and keywords to the search engines correctly through the Web sites Infrastructure.

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