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 [...]
26
Feb
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 [...]
15
Feb
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 [...]
02
Feb
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 [...]
13
Jan
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 [...]
07
Dec
Expanded Google Personalized Search…What Does It Mean for SEO?
On Friday Google announced they are going to, in their own words, …help people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages. Now when you search using Google, we will be able to better provide you with the most relevant results possible. This means that they are going [...]
03
Dec
Long Tail Keywords Can Wag the Dog
You’ve probably heard of long tail keywords, but may not know what they are or what they can do for you. Here are the answers to all your long tail keyword questions.
25
Jun
Is Bing Censoring Questions About Microsoft?
So, I decided to do a little experimenting on my own. I opened up a Google search tab and a Bing search tab. My first question was if Google would disrespect it self? Would it serve up the mud people were flinging at it, which from the experiment above Microsoft wasn’t willing to do. I thought about the most common criticism of Google and typed it in, “is google too powerful?”
24
Jun
Bing Local Now Allows Local Listings Confirmation By Phone, But Not If You’ve Asked for a Postcard
When Bing first came out, we at Chicago Style SEO immediately went in to claim our local listings (as everyone concerned with their web site’s SEO should do for all search engines and directories). I was a bit displeased when I went in to find that Bing was going to mail me a postcard with [...]
12
Feb
7 Steps to Shopping Cart Checkout Optimization
If you get 1000 visitors a day to your site and 2% convert into customers, you will have 20 customers a day. At Chicago Style SEO, we are obviously proponents of always looking to increase your relevant traffic, but at a certain point, it becomes much more efficient to work on increasing your conversion rate. [...]
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25JunIs Bing Censoring Questions About Microsoft? So, I decided to do a little experimenting on my own. I opened up a ...
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20JanWeb Designers Suck at Semantic Markup! Yeah, I’m talking about you. I have been looking at quite a lot of source ...
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24JunBing Local Now Allows Local Listings Confirmation By Phone, But Not If You’ve Asked for a Postcard When Bing first came out, we at Chicago Style SEO immediately went in to claim ...
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28AprGoogle’s Need for Speed – Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code This is the sixth post in a series that addresses several different ideas on how ...
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16MarGoogle’s Need for Speed – An Overview In August of 2009 Google began talking about releasing Caffeine on the world (or at ...
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19JanConversion Optimization is Just a Click Away “Conversion Optimization” sounds intimidating and a bit borg-like but it really just describes how people ...
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06JanThe Relationship Between AdWords and the Buying Funnel When I work on building and optimizing AdWords accounts for our clients, I always keep ...
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06JanWe’ve Written a White Paper Recently, the team here at Chicago Style SEO has been working on a few projects ...
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27DecHow to Crop & Resize Photos for the Web Using Apple Preview All Macs have a built in application called Preview. Preview does all kinds of wonderful ...
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01SepEmail Newsletter Content Matters Yesterday I got an email newsletter from the Glacier Raft Company (GRC). My family and ...
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