Web Dev SEO
Learn about the search engine optimization techniques web developers need to know to create a good experience for users and search engines.
WordPress 4.0 Beta Is Now Available: Here’s What’s New
WordPress recently announced that the first beta version of WordPress 4.0 is now available. WordPress prefaces its announcement with a word of caution that the...
Introducing LinkPatrol: A WordPress Plugin by Search Engine Journal
Search Engine Journal has been on WordPress for just over 10 years– we moved from Blogspot to our own hosted WordPress installation on April 22, 2004....
Critical Vulnerability Found In Popular WordPress Newsletter Plugin
Web security firm, Sucuri, found a critical vulnerability in a WordPress plug-in that has over 1.7 million downloads. The vulnerability allows potential attackers to take...
The Art of Peripheral Persuasion: Visuals in Web Design
They say that content is king, and that’s true. Quality, keyword-rich content will go a long way for your SEO and conversion rates. But people...
The Landing Page Optimization Guide You Wish You’ve Always Had
What follows is a list of resources that can be applied specifically to landing page optimization, originally repurposed from ConversionXL and other great websites around the web....
A Flaw In The All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin May Be Putting Your Website At Risk
If you have the All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress plugin installed, your website may be at risk of being compromised if it’s not updated. A update was released...
The Pros and Cons of HTML5: An #Infographic
One of the most important trends in web design has been the rise of HTML5, which is touted as one of the ideal languages of...
How Important Is Responsive Design: Interview With Michael David
As part of our SEJ interview series, Michael David of Tasty Placement discusses an issue that’s on every website owner’s mind these days. Just how important...
Smartphone Specific Crawl Errors Now Reported In Google Webmaster Tools
In an announcement made this morning on the official Google Webmaster Central Blog, starting today Google Webmaster Tools will now help you identify pages on your...
How To Optimize Your Website For Google Glass: Interview With Rob Garner
As part of our SEJ interview series, Rob Garner from Advice Interactive discusses how to optimize your website for Google Glass. This new technology clearly...
Choosing The Right WordPress Theme For Your Business: Interview With Ross Jones
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Ross Jones of 2 the Top Design gives some tips for choosing the right WordPress...
Ensure You’re Following TCPA Compliance Regulations: Interview With Daryl Colwell
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2013 sponsor, Brand.com: “the #1 rated online reputation management company”. In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las...
A Cautionary Tale: 301 Redirects and UX
William Congreve penned the saying, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Obviously he never knew about Google. A web designer friend of mine recently...
7 Ways to Quickly Increase WordPress Speed
Everybody seems to be in a hurry these days, and online loading times matter. Studies show that speedy WordPress websites perform better in terms of:...
10 Rules Of Thumb to Design a Successful Mobile-Friendly Website
Since mobile-friendly websites and responsive web design are now among the hottest topics in web world, it’s obvious that your company and clients move into...
6 WordPress Plugins for Easier Editor-Contributor Collaboration
A site only runs smoothly when you take the time to work with all people involved in its running. Editors and webmasters have a tendency...
Designing A User Friendly Website For The Blind
Google has made it clear that web content should be created for the user and not for the sole purpose of ranking in SERP’s. Why not...
The Challenges of Localizing Your Website
image credit: ShutterStock There are a number of challenges any business or organization must face when localizing its website. There are issues to do with translation,...
Web Design Is SEO | Most Important SEO Factors To Consider When You’re Designing A Site
Search engine optimization processes made great strides in the last few years. When the phrase first appeared, SEO web design intended little more than stuffing...
7 Killer Landing Page Design Tips to Maximize Your Conversion Ratio
image credit: ShutterStock One of the fastest ways to boost profits is to turn your attention away from traffic for a while and start thinking about...
SEO for WordPress Blogs: Getting the Basics Right
WordPress is an amazing publishing platform with an strong community that supports it. For the uninitiated, WordPress is an open source blogging platform which can...
Matt Cutts Tips for Updating News Articles
Matt Cutts, head of the Google Webspam team, fields a great question about how to handle developing news. “If I have a developing news story, should...
Matt Cutts on Negative SEO
For the last several months there has been a great deal of discussion of negative SEO, what it is and how to counteract it. Matt...
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Infographic: Porn vs The Internet [NSFW]
Internet marketers owe the porn industry for being the first to adopting technologies like geo-location, videostreaming and e-commerce to name a few. So what does...
7 and a Half Tips for Building an International Audience
We’re living in a world that’s more connected than ever before; Phineas Fogg’s “Around the World In We’re living in a world that’s more connected...
SEO Guide for Web Hosting & Domain Registration Companies
SEO in the niche of web hosting and domain name registration In this article we`ll try to generalize our practices in promotion of companies that...
Google Delays New Data Center
Google announced that they will be delaying their new data center that was being built in Oklahoma. What was the primary reason, according to the...
Google’s Four Web Serving Techniques for Webmasters
The Google Webmaster Central Blog is discussing a pretty advanced topic on webserving techniques. For the novice webmasters, this topic may be a bit on...
Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)
In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...
There is No G.com, Y.com, M.com, Why Not?
Google’s acquisition of the one character g.cn domain for China, reminded me of the old question about one and also two character domain names in...