about 4 months ago - 1 comment
I’ve decided to shut down my experimental SEO keyword graphing tool to focus on other activities. Sorry if you came here looking for it but it is no more. I wish I could suggest a good alternative to you but AFAIK there still isn’t a tool that can take a keyword, expand it and then More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
First there was Continuous Integration, then there was Continuous Deployment, now there’s Continuous Testing. Testing can (and should) be integrated throughout your web site development process: automated unit-testing on developer’s machines, automated unit testing during the continuous integration builds and then further automated testing after your continuous deployment process has deployed the site to a More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Today marks the release of my SEO Keyword Mapping tool at http://seokeywordsearch.com. This released version lets you create a keyword map for any combination of up to three search phrases.
about 1 year ago - No comments
There’s a post over on Search Engine Land that has a good list of SEO Myths and things to avoid: http://searchengineland.com/36-seo-myths-that-wont-die-but-need-to-40076 There are however two points with which I take issue: “14. It’s important for your rankings that you update your home page frequently (e.g. daily.) This is another fallacy spread by the same aforementioned fellow panelist. More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
In a previous post I explained some of the issues with ASP.NET MVC when trying to implement an SEO-optimized web site. In this post I’ll begin to explore some possible solutions. Step 1: Master View – some additions First let’s make it easy to set the meta description, page title, meta keywords and canonical url by More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Being an engineer at heart I like to measure things and to take them apart to see how they work. Search engines however are somewhat opaque – they use hundreds of different algorithms to create Search Engine Ranking Pages (SERPS) and those algorithms are a closely guarded secret and the subject of much debate and More >
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Whilst ASP.NET is clearly the best thing to hit .NET web development in a long-time it seems like the framework itself is somewhat challenged when it comes to SEO. For starters the concept of a page has all but disappeared – sure you can have a ViewPage but there’s no code associated with it. More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Creating a sitemap.xml file for Google and other search engines can be accomplished in MVC using a simple ActionResult that returns the appropriate XML blog. The problem however is in generating the list of URLs to go into that sitemap.xml file. In ASP.NET MVC there is no distinction between an action method that is a More >
about 2 years ago - No comments
Many friends have asked me for advice on optimizing their site for search engines so I thought I’d put together some notes here collecting the advice I’ve handed out recently. 1. The first thing to do is to get a Google analytics account and add the tracking code to all your pages. Unless you are More >
about 2 years ago - Comments Off
This is the blog of Ian Mercer, Serial entrepreneur, Digital Mapping Pioneer, Inventor of Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Producer, HighMat, SnapTune, … Patent holder, Guinness world record holder, and founder and CEO of SignSwift, LLC, Here you’ll find my thoughts on Home automation, Energy Conservation, Programming, Operations, Entrepreneurship, Business, Startups, Quality, Agile, Optimization, .NET, Natural Language More >