Anyone Still Using Dreamweaver Is A Chump

Web rankings depend on a mysterious mix of incoming and outgoing links, the quality of said links, and content. To achieve better rankings, most people assume external links (links from other websites) are more important. The truth is internal pages actually offer more link value. Alt tags, page titles, keywords all work together to make a  site search engine friendly. Even so, content is king.  Search engines crave new content therefore they give more importance to sites with constantly changing content.

New content & Digg can drive enough traffic to your site to compensate for not really understanding the SEO rules of website design. Read more

SEO Experiment: This Graph Tells The Story.

Jan. 1: Our server had a meltdown cause the huge drop

Jan. 13: We finished our move to the new server.

Jan 19: We activated All-in-One SEO plugin.

(The spike in visitors happen on the days we publish and article. Note the steady increase in returning vistors.)

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SEO Experiment: Page Title Vs. Post Title

Notice that the page title is the title of the search engine results- the post title is buried  in the description. Here is an opportunity to further lure the search engines by incorporating your keywords. Read more

SEO Experiment: The Experiment Begins Today.

In preparation for this experiment, I installed the Advanced Permalinks Plugin without really understanding what it did and why it was important. I updated the permalinks structures by following the default instructions included in the options screens of the plugin. Then I went to Wikipedia. Read more

I’m just an SEO idiot.

We launched our site on December 14th, 2007. We are all artists trying to make a living doing the things we love. We share ideas and information amongst ourselves, trying to help each other advance our creative expression and earn a living at the same time. It was decided that we would try to reach as many mac-using artists as possible. To do this, people have to know we exist.

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