How To Make Your Website Secure With A Strong Password
If you are creating your site using an open source solution like WordPress, Joomla, Pligg, or Drupal then you'll need to make sure that you keep it safe from hackers. Hackers like to solve password puzzles and gain access to places they aren't welcome. If you use a simple password that is easy to guess then you make yourself vulnerable to hackers and other malicious people. So how do you make your passwords harder to guess? Here are a few tips: Make them long - Short passwords are easy to guess. Make your passwords longer. Don't use dictionary words - Some robots will go through the dictionary and create a list of potential passwords from real words. They can be programmed to enter passwords while their human CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How To Transfer A Domain Name Successfully
Have you ever heard of .yu domain names? If not, then you won't be disappointed that they'll stop working after September 30. If you have one then you might be alarmed. What should you do? The following advice is really for anyone, regardless of whether you have .yu domain or not, who is planning a transfer of domains to a new domain. If you have a .yu domain then you'll need to start making your transfer as soon as possible. I would not recommend waiting until September. You want your new site working before your old site stops working and if you are planning 301 redirects, forget about it. They won't work either. The entire .yu block of domains will be dead and so will any CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google Analytics Gets A Great New Look!
If you've never used Google Analytics then you're missing out. It's free and that's a good selling point, but it's also one of the best metrics tools on the planet. It's certainly better than anything else out there in the free (or even paid) category of tracking products. And if you've been to the Google Analytics site but decided it wasn't for you because you couldn't find any of the helpful information, that has changed. They've changed the way they look. Obviously, the new face is meant to make Google Analytics easier to work with for new users. If you are a veteran user then you likely sign up through your Personalized Google account. If not then you may see the face. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Google Is Making Local Business Better
If you run a local business, things just got better for you. Google has announced that it will now start providing Google Analytics data for businesses that are listed in its Local Business Center. \ The specific data you'll be able to track includes: Number of impressions your LBC profile receives via Google.com search or Maps search The number of actions people take to interact with your business listing Top search queries used to find your listing Zip codes where driving directions came from The value of this information extends far beyond mere search. The zip code information, for instance, could be used to help you add business locations. If you see a lot of queries coming from a specific zip code and you know that residents in that CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Important Is Your Server?
New website owners seldom think about the importance of their server in regards to search engine optimization. This is perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of building a website and it can get you into deep trouble if you don't consider the options soon enough. You have may have heard warnings about linking to bad neighborhoods. All that really means is that the server you are on is critical in terms of who you may be (often unknowingly) associated with. Most new website owners, and many veteran site owners, go with the cheapest hosting plans they can find. This could be hurting you. Those cheap hosting plans are often shared hosting plans, which means that you share the server with several other websites. Do you know CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How To Measure Specific Goals For Your Website
This post is beyond the scope of search engine optimization, but it should be helpful. The Google Analytics Blog has a great post showing you how to set up goals for your site using Google Analytics. I highly recommend you read that post. But why would you want to do that? Well, establishing goals is always a good thing in business, but it's even better if you can measure how successful you are in reaching them. Google Analytics allows you to do that with ease. By setting up goals you can tell at a glance where you are having abandonment issues, if you are having abandonment issues, or where customers are bailing on the purchase process. With Google Analytics Goals, you measure each step CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Submit Your Sitemap To Ask.com
Some time in 2007, Ask.com added sitemap support to its search functions. That simply means that if you have a sitemap for your website then Ask.com can and will crawl it. That is not a guarantee that your website will be indexed. But its no guarantee that your site will be indexed at Google, Yahoo!, or MSN either. So that's nothing new. Having a sitemap does mean that your site will get crawled. The protocol was established by agreement between the three leading search engines so Ask.com was late to the game. Better late than never. According to Ask.com's Help Files, there are two ways to submit your sitemap. You can include a line in your robots.txt document or ping it. Here's the line of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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