As the world’s largest search engine, Google is used by people who are seeking information to all kinds of questions. Many of those questions are answered by Companies who publish answers to questions users have asked their customer service departments, but that’s not the only source of information. Often, the information users are looking for…
Most people think about a web site in terms of the creative design, or the content. That’s what you and your users see, but there’s much more going on behind the scenes. Your web site has to be hosted someplace and your hosting company uses a lot of hardware (web server, database server, media server,…
If you’re running a WordPress web site you are going to want to mark December 31st on your calendar. And not for New Year’s Eve. Unless you’re someone who designs or develops WordPress web sites, I’ll bet you’ve never heard of PHP. That’s too bad, because PHP is really important to the performance of that…
Many of us shoot photos with our cellphones and/or digital cameras, and upload those photos right in to Facebook. It’s simple, easy and a kind of mindless way of storing all out pictures in one place. But what if we want to get them back to use or store someplace else? Sure, you could right-click…
Is it possible to use automated content creation to spin news headlines into SEO friendly content? It’s a serious question. This morning, I saw a tweet from a company I’d never heard of who offered me a free tool that did automated content creation. This tool, they promise, would automatically create SEO friendly articles on…
It’s been nearly a year since I wrote the original version of this post. The one constant is that nothing in SEO is constant. Google updates it’s algorithms; they update their quality guidelines; they add and remove features on their SERPs. All of that means we are constantly having to re-evaluate the tools we use…
Have you noticed that, in the past, the speed measurements from Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool weren’t the same as GTMetrix or WebPageTest? Me too. The reason, among other things, is that Google’s testing tool wasn’t using the same technology as their own browser – Chrome. That just changed. Google announced that the PageSpeed Insights tool…
