SEO: Things You Need to Know

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SEO: Things You Need to Know

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

People spend so much time trying to gear their sites up to attract customers that they forget about what’s important to search spiders. They may have cool flash, awesome graphics or code that just tagged along from their free WYSIWYG HTML editor and they don’t even know about it. Did you know that these things [...]

SEO: Search Status for Firefox

By Pat Marcello on Monday, June 8th, 2009 | View Comments

I have a few cool plugins for Firefox, but one of my favorites is “Search Status.” Here are some things it does: It provides not just Google Page Rank, like the Google Toolbar does, but Alexa ranking of any page you land on as well. And these ranks sit in your lower toolbar and you [...]

Google's New Wonder Wheel

By Pat Marcello on Monday, June 1st, 2009 | View Comments

Have you been to Google lately? (Who hasn’t, right?) Everyone seems to be talking about the new search item they call the “Wonder Wheel.” It puts me in mind of a couple of tools online. One is Personal Brain, which is mind-mapping software, and the other is Visual Thesaurus that will help you to brainstorm [...]

SEO: Why Use Sitemaps?

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | View Comments

Yesterday, I advocated the idea that you should always use a sitemap on your blog to be sure that all your permalink pages are indexed. But what is a sitemap and why is it so important? A sitemap gives search spiders information about your website. It tells the bots what pages are on your site, [...]

My Personal Plugins List

By Pat Marcello on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | View Comments

On my call with SEO, Paul Easton, the other night, someone asked that I send out my personal WordPress plugins list for you. Well, heck, that seemed like a pretty good idea. So… If you’re wondering what plugins I use for my blog and why, here they are: Akismet: It’s a spam blocker that comes [...]

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