Carl’s SEO & Web Design Blog

Organic search engines are the free search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN that return results on a search term based on rules defined by the search engine. You pay nothing and have to work hard to get get a good position and discover the magic rules that give you that position. With paid […]

We are constantly amazed at how many users ignore basic security issues on their computer. The end result is ALWAYS loss of critical information that can’t be recovered and extraordinary expenses rebuilding the system when basic security steps could have saved everything. The three basic security tools you should ALWAYS have on your system are […]

The Nielsen/NetRatings reports that during June of 2005 Google ranked #1 of all searches conducted online with 47% of the searches. Yahoo! followed next with 22%, and MSN was third with 12%. From the first quarter of 2005 to the second, both Google and Yahoo! had single-digit growth in their search requests at 6% and […]

You can add maps to your web site using the Google Mapping API that is now available. It works with the major browsers, but use caution on others. You can see a sample page at:

http://www.netadventures.biz/maps.htm
It’s not hard to do a page like this. To start, go to:
http://www.getaholdofme.com/
You will need an API key to fill this […]

In doing web design for clients, they often want nice wide pages in their web site for their high-resoultion monitors. The problem is simply that a big chunk of users don’t have anything more than a 800 X 600 screen. You force them to do horizontal scrolling to see your pages - not good.
OneState.com […]