Entries tagged as ‘SEO’
4 Steps to optimize a website — a Denver solar case study
This is an inside look into my process for optimizing a pre-existing website. This will cover lots of the aspects of the SEO I’ve done, but not all of it…These steps are often my first round of optimization on a site. Once I do these four vital SEO steps, I move on to content SEO and more link-building. (more…)
Categories: SEO
Tagged: Denver SEO, Denver Solar, Denver Solar Panels, Google, Google Local, Google SEO, Local, Local Search, Local SEO, SEO, SEO Profiles, SEO Steps, Sitemap, Solar Installation, Yahoo Local, Yahoo SEO
January 28, 2009 · 1 Comment
Format your search results for SEO
Works great for SEO searches on the iPhone!
It’s frustrating doing searches with SEO in mind, then having Google add SearchWiki, personalized results, and other localizations that mess up what you wanted: accurate results. Here’s the solution: The SEO It! Bookmarklet.
- I do lots of searching as an SEO. I look for ranking, competition, additional keywords, etc. I use Google a LOT. And I use Apple’s Safari browser.
- By default, I am logged in to my Google account, and have Google preferences set to showing 100 results at a time. The problem? Google shows different ranking and links based on the number of results you see.
- I have Google Web History enabled, and Google provides me with “Personalized results based on my search history.” When doing SEO, I don’t want these results: I want what others will see.
- I use SearchWiki to move up results of websites I have created. When trying to get accurate SEO ranking, this is frustrating.
- I do SEO searches on my iPhone, too – where I need to manually strip out the annoying
&client=safari to see a normal results page.
(more…)
Categories: SEO
Tagged: SEO, Google, Safari, Safari SEO, Firefox SEO, Google SEO, Bookmarklet, iPhone Search, iPhone SEO, SEO for iPhone, SEO Tool, SEO Bookmarklet, Search Results formatting, Personalized Search, Web History
January 15, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’ve taken the plunge: the katzwebdesign.wordpress.com site is now mapped to seodenver.com, a domain I purchased last year. I’m not sure what the long-term plans are for this domain, but at least I’ll be building links to my own domain, not to WordPress.com…
Categories: Blogging · WordPress
Tagged: Denver SEO, Moving blog, Moving Domains, Moving Wordpress.com blog, SEO
SEO and continuing education
I'm writing this on my iPhone while waiting for Denver jury duty, so as a treat, I'll add a picture of my cat, Pica Katz.
It’s easy to know SEO concepts. It’s another thing to put them into good use and do the work involved in optimizing a site.
Yesterday, I was at a barnes and noble and saw the book SEO Bible. I flipped through the pages and I knew everything I saw. But if “Joe the SEO” reads the book, so will they. Knowing what everyone knows is not a competitive advantage.
A SEO must know more than what is printed in a year-old book. The book doesn’t talk about Google Search Wiki, or know about the new FriendConnect API, and even those technologies are yesterday’s news. Reading a book is just an introduction. SEO takes continuous training. (more…)
Categories: SEO
Tagged: Denver SEO, Google SEO, learning seo, search engine optimization, SEO, SEO Company
Google’s OneBox results getting smarter
Recently, Google seems to have updated their algorithm for when they show the mapped results (or, “OneBox”). It used to be that the OneBox would show up when viewing 10 results at a time for many most local searches. Now, the OneBox only shows up when viewing locally relevant industries or when a certain number of results are displayed at once. (more…)
Categories: Google · SEO
Tagged: Algorithm, Denver SEO, Denver Web Design, Google Maps, Google SEO, Industry SEO, Local, Local Search, Local SEO, Map SEO, OneBox, OneBox SEO, SEO
November 13, 2008 · 1 Comment
In working on the content for my new web site, I was working on ways to display the SEO ranking statistics. I came up with this concept of scaling the text relative to the % of clicks they get.
The SEO statistics in this way are pretty dramatic:
- The #1 Result: receives 42% of all clicks
- #2 Result: 12% of all clicks
- #3 Result: 8.5%
- #4 Result: 6%
- #5 Result: 5%
How do the numbers look?
I put together some really neat graphics that show how crazy important ranking well is. I went through some failed ideas, but landed on these two graphics: (more…)
Categories: SEO
Tagged: Google SEO, Google Statistics, ranking, Search Results, Search Statistics, SEO, SEO Ranking, SEO Statistics, SEO Traning, Statistics, Typography
Starting in WordPress 2.6, they’ve added captions to images that are automatically generated and use the Shortcode API to make it happen. One side effect is that All in One SEO Pack isn’t set up to strip the caption from the automatically generated META tags, so you may end up with in your description.
Thanks to a WordPress Trac entry, I got the right regular expression to strip all shortcode in All in One plugin. (more…)
Categories: Code
Tagged: 2.6, all in one seo pack, Caption, description, meta, regex, SEO, shortcode, WordPress, wordpress 2.6, wp, wp 2.6
I am pleased to introduce DenverSEO.info, a web page that goes over the basics of search engine optimization: what is SEO, how can you do SEO yourself, and Denver-specific SEO. Many of Katz Web Design’s clients are unclear as to what search engine optimization is, so I hope this page gets them started with their own optimization.
The web page was constructed using Google Pages, which was very simple to set up, but unfortunately, they don’t allow you to point your domain there properly, so I’ve hosted it on the KWD server.
Because this domain is a .info, it’s very informative (with little self-promotion), and I hope that users will find it to be helpful. Leave feedback below!
Categories: SEO
Tagged: Denver SEO, Google Pages, Launch, search engine optimization, Search Engines, SEO, SEO Denver
Only pay for great optimization results
One of Katz Web Design’s Denver web design clients wanted an option for performance-based SEO (Search Engine Optimization), rather than a monthly set price, so I created a package.
Here’s the gist of our SEO package:
- Pay only $5.00 an hour for optimization
- Targeted keywords are given a value based mainly on the competition’s SEO strength (content optimization, inbound links, age of site, etc.)
- Monthly payment per keyword are based on SEO click-through statistics (eg: the #1 result gets 42% of all clicks) and SEO difficulty
- Minimum 3 month contract, or by the month with a 15% premium
Categories: SEO
Tagged: Denver SEO, performance, Performance-based SEO, search engine optimization, SEO, SEO Packages
I recently purchased some domains for SEO, and I wanted to do some research about best practices for using multiple domains on the same content.
The good news? Google does not punish duplicate content; they just sort it out themselves. (more…)
Categories: SEO
Tagged: Domains, Google, Guidelines, Multiple Domains, search engine optimization, SEO, Spam
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Gettin’ Me Some Domains for Search Engine Optimization
Since Katz Web Design is going to be more active in Denver search engine optimization, I finally registered some domain names that I’ve been eyeing. Since domains are important for S.E.O. and KWD doesn’t have any SEO domain names, it was a ripe time to buy.
Bought
- denverseocompany (.com and .net)
- denverseo (.info)
- seodenver (.biz and .info)
Want to sell
There are also a few domains I’d like to sell, since I didn’t end up using them; I was the president of a chapter of Colorado Business Leads for a while, and I had planned to make a member directory website as an added benefit, but (no surprise) I was too busy.
If anyone’s interested in these domains, make an offer.
Categories: KWD · SEO
Tagged: Denver SEO, Domain Registration, Domains, Search, search engine optimization, SEO, SEO Denver
Katz Web Design, is a 
Nofollow SEO for your WordPress Functions
November 7, 2008 · 19 Comments
Pretty crude idea of nofollow, isn't it?
While working on a recent website, I became frustrated by the lack of nofollow support in many WordPress functions. Make that, most WordPress functions.
There are a few WP functions that I wanted to add nofollow to, so here’s a list and a download link: (more…)
Categories: Code · SEO · WordPress
Tagged: comments_popup_link, Functions, Functions.php, get_the_category, get_the_category_list, next_image_link, next_posts_link, Nofollow, post_comments_feed_link, previous_image_link, previous_posts_link, SEO, the_category, WordPress, WordPress SEO