HubSpot recently published an article on their blog about the next big social news site called Mixx. Mixx claims to be ‘Your Blend of the Web’, and I feel that it delivers—quite well. Signing up for Mixx is a short and painless process. Enter a few of your favorite tags and categories and viola…you have [...]
Aaron Wall of SEOBook has released a new SEO tool called Rank Checker. This tool allows you to easily track your rankings and rank changes on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search (MSN). This free tool is packaged as a Firefox extension, making it quite reliable. You can manually check rankings for a list of [...]
When someone links to your site, they generally copy and paste your URL out of their browser. To help aid your SEO efforts, try to provide them with consistent URLs at all times. Redirect your ‘index’ pages (index.html, index.php, etc…) back to the root. This way, users will link to: http://www.yoursite.com/ every time. PHP users: [...]
This morning I was fortunate to be able to participate in the ‘First-ever Google Webmaster Help Group Chat’. Though it was labeled as beta, it turned out to be a great session. The group chat, hosted by Webex, consisted of a panel of 13 Googlers, namely our Google friends Matt Cutts and host Adam Lasnik. [...]
www vs. Non-www? The problem is that www is considered a sub-domain, just like: http://mail.yahoo.com or http://analytics.google.com. Search engines consider subdomains to be a completely different web site. So, http://www.dauclair.com is a completely different site than http://dauclair.com in Google’s eyes. This affects your SEO in two areas: If Google happens to index your site as [...]
