Category Archives: Search Engine Optimization

I’ve been away from the WebSage blog trying to recover from a hard drive failure. In addition, I’ve been busy updating the QSSI SEO blog dedicated to helping government web managers understand the impact search engines have on information availability … Continue reading →

PositionTech, the company I have been using for my clients’ paid submission to Inktomi, FAST, and AskJeeves, has redesigned its site to match the new offerings in time for the Overture Site Match launch. The site offers detailed description of … Continue reading →

On March 1st at 6 pm Pacific Time, Yahoo! launched a new paid inclusion search program which combines and replaces the paid inclusion programs of Inktomi, AltaVista, and FAST, and distributes search results to Yahoo Search, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, MSN, CNN, … Continue reading →

In its standard meaning, search engine optimization focuses on making web sites rank highly with the main commercial search engines. The other side of it all is making sure content which is not supposed publicly available does not get indexed … Continue reading →

Recently I was approached by a web developer who inquired about guidelines for optimizing a shopping site build on osCommerce‘s ecommerce solution, for search engine rankings. The following is a summary of my email exchange with the prospective client:

FirstGov is not a sufficient resource for search engine marketing of a government website. Just because government websites have monopoly on .gov domain names, it does not mean they have monopoly on providing information about certain government-related subjects or locations. … Continue reading →

The most popular way for finding any information online is through search engines. The search for government information is no different than the search for any other type of information – search engines are the most popular means of finding … Continue reading →

Keyword density analyzer, and keyword placement & prominence analysis

Site critique of the day: I decided to practice what I preach and to share my knowledge of what I have learn about best practices in web development and web marketing over the past seven years. So, here is my … Continue reading →