by Ross Barefoot | Aug 2, 2012 | SEO Tips
.htaccess, 301 Redirects and the Subtleties of Syntax By now who doesn’t know that duplicate content is a bad thing for SEO? And although the universe of people who have heard of the famous “www resolve” issue is a smaller group, it’s still undoubtedly the vast...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 10, 2012 | SEO Tips
Find Duplicate Tags Using Google Webmaster Tools Sometimes this is easy, sometimes not so much. The first and foremost rule of SEO is to make sure each of your unique pages has a unique title tag. That’s because the first and foremost rule of Google (or at...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 9, 2012 | SEO Tips
My wife Tina has a favorite phrase that came out of working with horses. “You get more on the give than you do on the take.” It’s a homespun way of saying that, beyond being the right thing to do, giving will serve you better than taking. SEO is...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 8, 2012 | SEO Tips
This one will be easy. Maybe that’s why so few people do it. I think it’s ironic that the stuff that we don’t do is the very easy stuff and the very hard stuff. The very hard stuff, yeah, I get that. Maybe I get the procrastination on the easy...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 7, 2012 | SEO Tips
Repeat after me: “Feed Google’s Need for Speed” What do you do when you click on a link, your browser starts to load the page you want to see, and then, nothing happens. You wait. After a few seconds you see some text. Then an image or two. By...
by Ross Barefoot | Feb 3, 2012 | SEO, SEO Tips
To all you SEO, SEM and SMO professionals: as an FYI, you’d better learn this PDQ: TLA. I even have a URL to help you FIO.* TLA is the most fun acronym of them all: Three Letter Acronym. And we, my friends, are awash in TLA’s, in case you haven’t...