As an SEO, I can say that in theory website design should include a good bit of input from SEO people. SEO should be part of the entire design process, included along side items like database design, UI design, and architecture choice. I’d say that in the majority of new websites, especially for companies of any size, this is the case. SEO has earned a spot at the table now that the business drivers realize the days of “if you...
Read MoreFollowing a tweet that I ran across and digging a few links, I found one of the new style search engines. SearchMe presents a flash based gui that upon searching, allows you to scroll through lists of textual results while viewing quasi-graphical representations of the target pages. My first thoughts as an SEO were of course where am I ranked! Kind of vain, but very typical of SEOs. After a couple initial searches for my SEO clients, I actually did...
Read MorePretty much everyone who keeps a pulse on the SEO community has heard of, read, commented on, or created a blog post in response to John C. Dvorak’s recent post on the PC Magazine site about SEO Fiascoes. For those who have not heard, he basically bashes a mainstay of many years in the SEO industry — long URLs. As the story goes he got some SEO advice from someone who supposedly knows what they are talking about gave him...
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