How to SEO a Website
Do you know how to optimize a web site for the search engines? Or do you even know what Search Engine Optimization is for that matter? If you don’t know what search engine optimization is, the basic...
View ArticleWhat Are Meta Tags?
If you look at the source code of a page on someone’s website, you’ll likely see the title tag <title></title> and <meta> directly below that. Of course the title is extremely...
View ArticlePrivate Domain Registration Is Ok In Googles Eyes
It has been debated that private domain registration may affect your ability to rank in the search engines, due to the fact that you may be a spammer and might be trying to hide something. Many people...
View ArticleFlock: The Social Web Browser in Review
Anyone who uses the internet knows that social media is growing exponentially and can also be vital in bringing in new traffic to your website. Not to mention a great way to network. So anyway, Flock...
View ArticleGoogle Making Street View Anonymous
In an attempt to protect the privacy of those who have been captured on Google Street View doing something embarrassing, Google has announced that they will be blurring out all faces in the service,...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Gets Even Better
Google has been making so many great updates to their services, it’s hard to keep up, but of course, they’ve done it again. The service of interest this time is Google Maps. Google has now added some...
View ArticleToolbar Page Rank Update
If for some odd reason you are still looking at Toolbar Page Rank, people are reporting that Google has updated it. So check your sites to see. Not that it matters, and I definitely recommend against...
View ArticleAnalyzing Your Competitors Metatags Quickly
If you’ve ever wanted to do a little competitive analysis, you’ve probably had the misfortune of having to view the page source of many pages on a particular website. Searching meta tags isn’t the best...
View ArticleHow Long For Indexation After Migrating to a New Domain
If you’re a regular reader here, you may have noticed that a few months ago the domain has changed from SEOHats.com to alexjuel.com. I did this because I felt like SEOHats just didn’t make any sense....
View ArticleIs SEO Necessary For New Business Owners Anymore?
I came across a forum post on DMOZ quite some time ago with a new business owner asking if SEO is necessary anymore. Why this person was asking for this type of advice from DMOZ, I have no idea, but...
View ArticleWhat’s a Bad Bounce Rate and How To Improve it
This is something I wrote a while ago and send to my clients whenever they ask about bounce rates. I thought you might find useful too. What Is Bounce Rate? The bounce rate is a percentage of bounces...
View Article8 Tips on Writing from Kurt Vonnegut
I was introduced to this video via Tim Ferris’ always awesome newsletter called 5 Bullet Friday. I’m actually not familiar with Kurt Vonnegut, but supposedly he’s an amazing writer. And the tips in...
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