I’m tiring of the term SEO, but it’s become a term of art. I didn’t care for the Cloud-everything buzzword craze when it emerged, but I don’t create these words. I’m a professional operating in the field of web design, web development, and Internet marketing, and so I need to speak the language my current and prospective clients are seeking to understand. Search Engine Optimization isn’t a new term or a new...

SEO circles are all abuzz over the recent updates made by Google to its index. Names like Penguin and Panda have been flying back and forth. Some people are fairly upset, claiming that certain updates were misapplied, resulting in undeserved penalties for certain forms of optimization. Google’s Matt Cutts even admitted that one of the ‘updates’ which had SEOs howling was actually a bug. What do these Google updates mean for...

Step one is don’t use Yahoo Small Business Hosting for WordPress. Sorry, I know it may be too late for that, but if you ever succeed in securing a means for time travel, print a copy of this to take back and leave somewhere your former self will find it. Just think: you wouldn’t have to sit through another one of my stinky posts; you’d be able to use your time machine for fun stuff. Also, make absolutely sure you don’t...

WordPress is widely and quite rightly regarded as being an excellent platform for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Straight out of the box, WordPress provides a plethora of features for obtaining optimal search rankings. The flip side of this in-built optimization is that the pool of Search Engine Optimized web sites has increased right along with the ballooning popularity of WordPress itself. I’ve compiled here a list of five simple,...