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Developing Highly Accessible Sites To Increase Customer Experience
[2009-06-18] Whenever consumers decide to purchase something new, quality is usually a concern. The expression "they don't make them like they used to" has never been more true when you look around at many items these days that are mass produced or, due to rigorous production timelines, simply aren't rewarded the amount of attention they deserve.
Finding the Best Keywords For Your Site
[2009-05-29] When you own an online business one of the most important things you can do is get high rankings in the search engines. There are many ways of doing this. One of the most effective ways of getting your site noticed by the search engines is by using relative keywords.
Improving Content SEO Performance For PR
[2009-05-11] Besides content optimization and making sure a site's news pages and digital assets can be found and indexed, attracting relevant inbound links is the next most important tactic for improving search engine performance of Public Relations related content.
Monitoring Rankings Is The Ultimate Measure Of Success
[2009-04-20] SEO is all about ranking. Whether you're optimizing code, creating keyword driven content or acquiring links; the aim is to appear at the top of Google's search engine results page (SERPs).
Flash May Still Not Be Good For SEO
[2009-03-30] In June of last year, Google announced they had improved their indexing of Flash files - and web designers around the globe rejoiced. Many web designers love flash because it frees them from the creative shackles of HTML and can give them the "WOW" factor when presenting new websites to clients.
Requesting Data From The Omniture API
[2009-03-16] In my next post, I'm going to dive down and talk in more detail how the API actually works and show pieces of a real application. But before I go there, I wanted to touch one more time on tokens and give any programmers out there a heads-up on the "Great Token Gotcha."
The Importance Of Section Targeting
[2009-02-23] Using Adsense on your blog usually isn't the most profitable way to monetize it, but it is fairly quick and easy, which makes it a popular choice for many website owners. Last week I moved one of my commercial blogs to Thesis, and was reminded of the importance of using section targeting on your blog.
Stopping Redirects From Being Compromised By Spammers
[2009-02-02] Late last week the Google Webmaster Central Blog discussed site redirects and how they can be potentially compromised by spammers. They also mentioned 7 ways in which you can prevent your site redirects from being abused, read more below:
Increase Site Searchability By Adding Videos
[2009-01-14] The Forrester Blog recently came up with an interesting info on how to heighten page rankings on Google! Their main tip is to utilize Google's universal search by creating videos. Let's see how:
What Are The Development Tools of 2009?
[2008-12-29] I remember the good old days of 1994. Back when your only choice of developing a web site was doing it by hand. Remember typing HTML codes like <b> and <table> and making it all work?
Create Compelling Titles and Descriptions To Increase Traffic
[2008-12-09] Anybody who has been online for any length of time, and has had any success with achieving good search engine placement, knows one thing: Rankings are not cast in iron. In fact they are very fluid. Sometimes you can hold onto a top spot for years, other times you're constantly battling to stay on the first page. That's just the nature of search engine algorithms.
Adding Geolocation To Your Website
[2008-11-24] The W3C has created a standard for location sharing called Geolocation. It allows any person to share her location with any website at the click of a button. Imagine the possibilities with this.
Testing A Site For Link Spam
[2008-11-17] If you have an interest in researching spam by other sites, and quantifying it, there are a few things you can do. One of these is to dump out a spreadsheet of all a site's backlinks using a tool like Linkscape or Link Diagnosis. Then you can analyze the links. This can be a painful process, but here are a couple of tips on how to speed the process up significantly.
SOA skillset: Testing Architect
[2008-11-03] I have discussed the SOA Evangelist, the Architects, and the Developers. Today I will discuss the role of the Testers and the characteristics required to contribute to a successful SOA implementation.
Check Your Site Privacy and Security for Issues
[2008-10-16] What this is about: This list covers issues regarding site pages that outline your privacy and security policies as they relevant to the site visitor's needs.
How to add a Low-Key Border to your Web page
[2008-09-15] I saw that on the anniversary of 9/11 you changed your Web site home page to have a thick black border and some commemorative words. Nice, low key, and still effective. How'd ya do it?
Tips to Get Good Search Engine Visibility
[2008-08-25] Google has been quite open about what they regard as relevant in a website and what's needed to get good search engine visibility.
Non-Existing .NET Developer Projects
[2008-08-11] A year ago, I wrote a post about three projects that I thought would be useful for .NET developers but didn't exist at the time. I thought it would be fun with a follow-up on that post.
Tag Cloud Solutions for SEO
[2008-08-04] Saw this great tag cloud cartoon on ReadWriteWeb (RWW) this weekend and it prompted this blog post. I've got a mini-rant on this topic due to my constant advocacy for tag clouds and resistance from everyone I recommend them to.
Adopting Krugle Enterprise into Your Development Process
[2008-07-14] News of the Krugle Enterprise appliance product announcement making it to the "Top Stories" list on InfoWorld left me scratching my head.
WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio
[2008-04-21] Chris Keene of WakeMaker reached out to me in response to my Freetard post. Since then, I've been reading his blog and have learned a thing or two about his thoughts on Web 2.0 and why WaveMaker is addressing the market in the way they are.
Volantis Released Mobility Server Under The GPLv3
[2008-03-24] Few months ago Volantis announced that was about to release its Mobility Server Community Edition to the open source community under the GNU General Public License version 3, starting making it available immediately as a free download under a proprietary license.
Framed Redirects
[2008-03-12] Framed redirects are one of my biggest pet peeves on the web. You click on a link to visit a site, the site loads, and the URL in your address bar is different than what it should be.
Installing Apple Developer Tools On A Mac
[2008-03-03] I seem to recall a long time ago that when you installed Mac OS X you also got a bunch of cool Unix command line developer tools, including a C compiler, debugging tools and much more. I'm taking a C programming class at the local community college and would like to install these tools, but have no idea where they are any more. Help?
Running JavaScript Functions from Within ColdFusion 8 Containers
[2008-01-02] This morning a discussion came up on cf-talk about how to run JavaScript functions from within ColdFusion 8 containers. (What do I mean by 'container'? I mean any of the new Ajax UI elements like the Pod or Window.)
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