Getting Your Site Indexed
I got a little sidetracked today by Search Engine Optimization or SEO. (No not SEX this time SEO!) You should know about Sitemaps, writing good content but how do you get those search engine spiders to...
View ArticleExpress Inclusion Search Engine Marketing Program
There are a ton of scam programs out there that will submit your site to search engines blah blah blah. Most of them just take your money, plug your site into some generic submit software and call it...
View ArticleGoogle Won’t Index WordPress Pages Created by Plugins – Solution
On my WordPress site CapeParrot.org I have a number of pages created by plugins: a forum, a picture gallery and a store. To use these Plugins you just place a shortcode on a single WordPress page and...
View ArticleFind Broken Links on your Website
Broken links are very bad to have on a website. Broken links are bad for your visitors and very bad for Search Engines. I have some very old sites that have been changes so many times over the years...
View ArticleTo WWW or not to WWW that is the duplicate content question!
Google is really hip on removing duplicate content from their search results. In the old days we would submit our sites in every way possible to get more results in searches i.e.:...
View ArticleError 404 Pages
Today I got to thinking about those dreaded error 404 pages. They are really terrible for sites. I hate landing on a 404 page. Is that page gone? Moved? Is the entire site gone? Search engines hate...
View ArticleSpeed Up Your Website with Compression
In my quest for better search engine optimization (SEO) I’ve found that Google considers how fast your site loads in its ratings. There are a lot of things you can do to clean up and reduce the size of...
View ArticleMore To WWW or not to WWW that is the duplicate content question!
See my first post on the subject here: http://www.craigharris.org/2011/03/18/to-www-or-not-to-www-that-is-the-duplicate-content-question/ about the importance of using only one URL for web content to...
View ArticleAvoid duplicate content from index.html or index.php
Todays SEO post is a quick and easy one to avoid duplicate content. http://www.craigharris.org http://www.craigharris.org/index.php Both this links return the same page and would be considered...
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