If you’re creating your own blogging or forum platform using PHP, you’ll find that search engine spammers absolutely love to exploit those means of communication by spamming links to their sites. While a spam filter is a great way to combat this problem, occasionally even the best spam filters let a few spam posts through. [...]
Read the full article⇒This .htaccess code redirects http://domainname.com to http://www.domainname.com. Additionally, it forces any call to index.php to the domain root.
Read the full article⇒There exists a notion amongst the SEO community that if you produce great content, the traffic and links will come. You don’t have to do anything bit sit in a text editor or illustrative tool and pound out the best content of your life. If it’s unique, well written, and useful, you’ll get the traffic and links you deserve.
Read the full article⇒SEO is not magic, no matter how much some SEO scammers attempt to convince you otherwise. Search Engine Optimization is simply the implementation of the scientific method in relation to a search engine’s algorithm: Hypothesize, experiment, analyze, conclude, and repeat until you find what the search engines like. However, unless you work as a full time SEO, you most likely don’t have the time to experiment with on-site modifications and link building methods. In all honesty, one only needs very basic knowledge of search engine optimization techniques to rank above local Tyler competitors. Furthermore, knowing the basics of SEO prevents you from being scammed by shady SEO firms. To arm you with the basics of SEO, we’ve compiled a list of our 5 favorite SEO resources.
Read the full article⇒In order to inflate their numbers, Yelp does not remove the listings of companies that have been declared out of business. Why display the address, phone number, and reviews of a company that no longer exists? The only possible justification is to inflate the traffic statistics. Deleting a listing at all means a drop in traffic. Now multiply this by every single business that has gone under since Yelp’s inception in 2004, and you’re looking at a significant amount of traffic decrease. As described before, traffic directly relates to advertising revenue. It’s understandable from an economic perspective as to why Yelp keeps these listings active. However, this approach is leading to an extremely negative consequence that Yelp does not seem to care about.
Read the full article⇒Are hidden-text penalties a hoax? There are more articles about why hidden text is bad for SEO than the number of tacos I’ve consumed over my life-time. And I freaking love tacos. Anyway, I was redesigning my website, and I thought it would be cute to alter the HTML of a Google search result page [...]
Read the full article⇒Ranking highly in Google’s local results is extremely important for local companies. What can be frustrating for a company is ranking #1 in the organic results but not appearing in the local listings at all! What’s even more irritating is that some of the local results ranking above you don’t even link to an official [...]
Read the full article⇒I must start off saying that I freaking love Sprinkes Cupcakes.
But come on, this is a bit silly.
