October 2009

If you somehow haven’t been thinking of Christmas sales on your website, then it might be too late by now. You can still try though.I posted recently how it looks like traffic is up on websites already just for Halloween and because it’s getting colder out. The biggest shopping day of the year is less [...]

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It seems like October has been a good month for website traffic so far. We host a number of sites and I have a few myself and in looking at the traffic reports, October seems to be a good month.Part of the reason, at least locally, is that the weather isn’t as nice. I’ve always [...]

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My brother (also in the SEO industry) forwarded this article to me about how Google has removed PageRank from Google Webmaster Tools. It’s an interesting article. I’ve put my favorite lines below and then I have some comments, too… Why Google Pulled PageRank from Webmaster Tools (http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2009/10/why-google-pulled-pagerank-from-webmaster-tools.html) (www.straightupsearch.com) Their reason for removing it from Webmaster [...]

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I was just approving some website listings on MadisonClick (http://www.madisonclick.com/) and still continue to notice websites that have both the www and non-www version of their URLs working.You really need to stick with one or the other and not have both working. Google does seem to now pick which domain is favored, but you still [...]

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It has been said a kajillion times but I’ll say it again… content is king! If you do tons of SEO work, get the incoming links for a certain keyword but that keyword is not even mentioned on that page (which would be a lot of work to make that happen), then when people come [...]

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We’re kind of kicking around the idea of having a class in maybe January. It would be a series of 4 classes – one a week. There would be me teaching it and maybe 1-2 guest speakers. You’d get a book with notes. There would be a cost.With these new details, let me know if [...]

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I just had a phone call with a client and thought I’d blog about it quickly.We’re planning a slight redesign for them. They’re really happy with the design we made for them years ago, so they don’t want to tweak it much. We’re just going to make it wider for them, move some thing around [...]

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Hello! It has been a busy week so far but I wanted to take a minute to point out some of the à la carte services that Webstix offers. These are available to virtually any website owner, so you don’t need to be one of our current clients to take advantage of these services: WordPress [...]

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I just took a look at a site and they’re using one word keywords in their meta tags and they’re really general, too – like sport and so forth and there was one misspelled keyword, which didn’t look like it was that way on purpose. That’s sloppy and probably not worth having meta keywords.What you [...]

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I don’t know why this is coming up again. I thought everyone has upgraded by now but I’d had this issue come up a few times recently. Here’s what I wrote to a client just now: Unfortunately we don’t support IE6 with our web design. And honestly, anyone using it needs to upgrade it immediately [...]

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