I’ve been playing around with some different robots arguments to determine exactly what they do. The constructive purpose of the nosnippet tag continues to elude me, as it didn’t work as I had believed it would (or should, for that matter). In using the nosnippet argument, my assumption was that it would prevent Google from simply choosing random text from the page as the SERP description - opting instead to default to the information included in the description META tag. That isn’t, however, what appears to have happened here on SEOAly Read on… »
I’d not heard of kwippy before today (I’m still kind of a Social Media plebe), but I love learning about new tools and services that help people stay connected online. Thanks to Jeremy Weiss for the invitation! While I’ve not had much time to play around and/or familiarize myself with it’s individual features in comparison to other popular microbloggers, I was excited to receive an e-mail from them letting me know that one of my kwips is being featured on the site’s home page. How could I not write a post about them after that? 
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I’m having a bit of a difference of opinion over the importance of headings - specifically H1, H2 and H3 tags. A while back I made some suggested changes to our standard operating prodedure with regard to creating website rough drafts. Several of my changes were adopted and have since been implemented into our SOP, but the recommendation that keyword-rich headings be incorporated into all rough drafts wasn’t. Read on… »
To be perfectly honest, I don’t have a clear definition for the term - I kind of made it up. Hear me out. I’ve worked for companies whose business philosophy stood in stark contrast to my own. A person can be great at sales without being a charlatan. A product or service with real benefits and true value essentially sells itself. Read on… »
There appear to be some who misinterpreted my previous post regarding SEO consultation as negative toward the SEO industry as a whole. Nothing could be further from the truth. I love SEO. I think it’s fun. Then again, I’m kind of a geek. Luckily I’ve always been comfortable embracing my geekdom. I like researching terms…I like working on sites to make them more search engine friendly…I like copywriting…I like finding information on a subject so I can actually write some copy about it…I like learning about the power of social media to drive traffic to a site, while at the same time helping to increase that site’s ranking in SERPs…I like it all. Read on… »
