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Google’s Need for Speed – Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code
This is the sixth post in a series that addresses several different ideas on how to speed up your website. This series was brought about because of Google’s new focus on how quickly webpages and websites load; by focusing, I mean that they are now saying that page load speeds are one of the factors [...]
April 28, 2010 4 Comments
Google’s Need for Speed – How To Compress Your Site
The next step in our series of how to speed up your webpages and websites is the easiest: how to turn on compression on your web server. Turning it on will mean the web server will finish all the work faster and therefore deliver the pages more quickly to the reader.
April 26, 2010 4 Comments
Google’s Need for Speed – Use Cache in .htaccess to Speed Up Your Site
This is the fourth in a series of about seven posts (I keep finding more info and may add a couple more posts) on how to speed up your web pages and your website in general. Speeding up sites has been in the news recently because Google has announced that page speed is now a factor [...]
April 21, 2010 5 Comments
Google’s Need for Speed – Optimize Photos for Fast Loading
This is the third in a series of seven or so (you never know, we might more to write about) posts on how to speed up your web pages and your website in general. A lot more attention has been paid to site speed by the SEO community because Google began talking about how they planned [...]
April 12, 2010 5 Comments
Google’s Need for Speed – How To Know If Your Site Is Slow
This is the second of several posts addressing issues around Google’s announcement that they are releasing a new architecture (called Caffeine) for their web search and their emphasis in conjunction with Caffeine’s release of how quickly web pages load. In the series we will be looking at:
An Overview of Site Speed
How to find out if your [...]
March 18, 2010 5 Comments
Google’s Need for Speed – An Overview
In August of 2009 Google began talking about releasing Caffeine on the world (or at least the world of people that use and count on Google). What’s Caffeine? According to Google it’s their “next-generation architecture for Google?s web search.” This means Google is looking at changing how they index the Internet and they are reevaluating [...]
March 16, 2010 6 Comments
Keywords: The Key to Internet Marketing
I was asked to write a guest post on Hostway’s wonderful online business guide: Web Resources.
In my post I talk about the importance of keywords, how to do keyword research, and how to apply what you find.
Take a look and leave a comment either here or on Web Resources. I’d love to hear what you think [...]
February 26, 2010 No Comments
Speed Up the Rewrite Engine for WordPress
While reading Michael Gray’s post on WordPress’ scalability, I followed this link to a webmasterworld.com forum on WordPress’ default .htaccess code. jdMorgan replied to thread with a whole new set of code to replace the .htaccess file that WordPress installs to optimize the URLs in a blog. jdMorgan had rewritten the .htaccess code in order [...]
February 15, 2010 2 Comments
Ben Guest Posts on Hostway.com
Chicago Style’s Ben Robinson was recently asked to write a guest post for Hostway’s fantastic Web Resources blog; the post is definitely worth checking out, as is the blog. Web Resources is a complete guide to starting and maintaining a successful web site.
In his post, Ben wrote about Nine Easy Backlinks that you can get [...]
February 2, 2010 No Comments
Local Search Volume vs. Global Monthly Search Volume
Last spring Google added a new column to their keyword tool inside of AdWords: Local Search Volume. We have added this data to the keyword research data we send to our clients. And, as you would expect our clients ask what the difference is between the Local and Global columns.
What’s the Difference Between Local and [...]
January 13, 2010 1 Comment
