Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 5th, 2005 in Other (NonSEO) Tools
Nearly a year ago, I talked about how CSS can play a small part in your SEO efforts in this post. Today, I wanted to share a tool I ran across that can help you easily make great looking vertical or horizontal nav bars for your site. And when I say easy, I mean E A S Y ! It is a wizard that steps you through the process. Basically all you do is enter your anchor text and link destinations, choose the style of nav bar you want (including mouseovers), and the code is handed to you on a silver…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 4th, 2005 in SEO Tips
Michael Nguyen has done an excellent job of breaking down the Google Sitemaps XML protocol so that it is easy to understand. Using his information, you should be able to construct your own sitemap fairly easily, using the language of your choice. You can find his instructions at www.socialpatterns.com/search-engine-optimization/breaking-down-google-sitemaps-xml/
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 3rd, 2005 in General
It is Friday, so kick back, be a little lazy, pretend you are optimizing your site, and enjoy a little SEO Flash movie I created using dfilm.com’s fun little movie maker. Nothing award-winning … just something to waste your time. 
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 3rd, 2005 in General
Google just announced a new service allowing webmasters to submit pages for inclusion into their index using an open source XML format dubbed Google Sitemaps. Google hopes the new system will help it do a better job of finding pages than traditional crawling alone allows. Feeds also let site owners indicate how often pages change or should be revisited. This will NOT replace the normal Google spider. It is only an additional method of retrieval for Google, and may be very useful for webmasters to help Google spider their dynamic URLs. For more information, go to Google Sitemaps Help or read…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 2nd, 2005 in SEO Tips
You have probably all read much about The Long Tail lately. The term was coined back in October, and it has spawned many articles since then. One of the best is from SEW, called Search’s Long Tail. In that article, Danny sums up the long tail in terms of SEO as getting the onesies and twosies, the queries that might only happen once or twice in a month. Maybe they don’t seem important because of the low volume individually, but tap into lots of onesies and twosies, and you can be doing well. Of course, forum threads have long recommended going…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 1st, 2005 in SEO Tips
For those of you who have been concerned about any loss of rankings in the latest Google update (nicknamed Update Bourbon), do not panic yet. The update is not yet over. According to Googleguy over on WMW, Here’s the advice that I’d give now: take a break from checking ranks for several more days. Bourbon includes something like 3.5 improvements in search quality, and I believe that only a couple are out so far. The 0.5 will go out in a day or so, and the last major change should roll out over the next week or so. Then there…
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