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Depersonalize Search – a quicker way

My last post about how to depersonalize search might have been too hard for the weary computer user, so here is a much quicker ( and efficient ) method. If you are using Firefox there is a plugin that you can install that does a great job (more…)

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Low Hanging Fruit (SEO)

Low Hanging Fruit (SEO)

I was thinking recently about how to find ways to get some traffic to your web site, something that would be easy to describe and easy to implement. I think the best way to describe it is the idea of “low hanging fruit”. Let’s say you have (more…)

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Server Logs confusion

Recently a client was talking to me about his hosting company’s stats on his website. Here was our correspondence. ed- hi, fat cow sent me my visitor stats for february- so far this month, 1,805 visits, 25,590 hits..thats the most for any month since august 2011. my (more…)

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Offers to publish reciprocal links

Almost weekly I get offers to put up a link to some other site, in return for their putting a link to my site. Almost always I decline for a variety of reasons. Some of these cases i could have done a bit of effort and made (more…)

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Return on Investment

I’ve been meaning to take the pure JavaScript code I had for a former incarnation of a Return on Investment form/calculator and turn it into a more robust application, using the Ajax model and a PHP handler and this weekend I finally got around to it. The (more…)

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Confidence Levels & T Tests

I wanted to shore up my understanding of Statistical Confidence Levels ( “shore up” is a joke, there is no shore, no beach, no nothing) so I contacted my brother in law, Paul Vogt,  who is a genius at this stuff, and asked him to explain… “So (more…)

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SEO Tips

Add Search Engine Optimization to your Web Site Workbook & Plans for Search Engine Optimization Search tip about Text on the Page Text on the page: When you are writing text for your pages you should try to use your topical keywords throughout the entire page. Ideally (more…)

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11 Reasons Why Your Website isn’t getting Traffic

11 Reasons why your web site isn’t getting traffic Overachieving graphics Poor copy writing Targeting the wrong market Not targeting any market Poor design Takes too long to load a page Too flashy and cutesy Using poor contrast in color mixing Poor credibility Poor font choice Navigation (more…)

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How to depersonalize search

When you search a lot during the day it is possible that the results you are getting are influenced by previous results, because of stored cookies on your machine. If you are an SEO you want to limit those results to what a typical user might see. (more…)

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Broken Links

Recently I was asked to do some seo work as part of a larger marketing campaign, including email, social media and possibly part of a redesign. Over the course of a few hours of work i noticed i had some broken links to deal with. How do (more…)

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