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How Important are Title Tags in Web Pages?

Friday, February 16th, 2007

The title tags in web pages are one of the most important elements of search engine optimization, and can have a significant impact on your search engine rankings. Jill Whalen, contributor for Search Engine Guide, recently wrote a great article outlining the importance of the title tags in web pages. She explains a number of techniques for optimizing title tags, and even provides examples.

Social Networking Links

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Social networking has grown by leaps and bounds because of the internet. There are social networking websites popping up everywhere. After browsing a number of them, I have come up with a list of the top social networking sites. This list of social networking links is in no particular order, and it is based on functionality, popularity, and personalization.

Top Social Networking Sites

  • Facebook – Visually appealing user interface and simple to figure out.
  • LinkedIn – More business influenced networking.
  • MySpace – It’s a beast in the industry, but very trashy in my opinion.
  • Xanga – Good for blogging within a specific network, and easy to customize.
  • Blogger – More about getting your information to the broadest network possible.

As stated before there are numerous social networking sites, but these are in my opinion the top social networking sites.

Why Redesign? Website Under Construction Web Page

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

When webmasters decide to redesign a website, some tend to use an under construction web page. This can be very harmful to search engine rankings, not to mention if anyone comes to your site looking for information they will leave the under construction web page and never come back. I mean, how many times have you gone back to a site with an under construction web page? I’ll bet never. Want to know why redesign website pages lose ranking in the search engines? When the search engine crawler comes to a road block such as an under construction web page, they have nothing to index and therefore leave.

The best solution is to redesign your website in a development environment such as a sub-domain, or new directory. That way you don’t have to deal with any down time and lose any traffic, and when your new site is ready don’t forget to use 301 redirects to point your old urls to their new counter part.