SEO
I’ve recently been focused on SEO efforts for my fledgling startup so I thought I’d pen a few word about SEO for my friends and followers. On the next page are some notes for anyone just beginning their SEO efforts and on the page after that is a tool I created to help with the process of picking keywords.
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Thinking about how Search Engine Marketing (SEM) can be applied to other areas of business
about 4 months ago - No comments
One thing that struck me while I was building the Seo Keyword Search and Mapping tool was that keyword analysis really can reveal a lot about what people are thinking about and what they are looking for. Seo keyword analysis really is the largest scale unprompted recall survey you can possibly do. You can apply More >
SEO Keyword Search and Mapping Tool now available
about 4 months 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.
SEO Myths
about 4 months 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 >
ASP.NET MVC SEO – Solution Part 1
about 6 months 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 >
How SERP rankings changes over time – SEO
about 6 months 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 >
ASP.NET MVC meet SEO; SEO meet ASP.NET MVC
about 6 months 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 >
Building sitemap.xml for SEO ASP.NET MVC
about 7 months 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 >
Seo for beginners
about 7 months 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 >
The Blog of Ian Mercer: Home Automation++
about 7 months 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 >
SEO Keyword Tool in Action
about 7 months ago - No comments
Here’s an example of the SEO Keyword Search Tool in action, untangling the subject of ‘digital signage’ and some related keywords. Larger boxes indicate more searched-for terms, thicker lines indicate stronger connections.