Carl’s SEO & Web Design Blog

One very important blog - if you haven’t found it - is Matt Cutt’s blog. Matt works at Google and has become the primary interface between Google and the SEO community. This is as close as you are going to get to the inside scoop on how Google works. You can find his blog at:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/. […]

For over a year we’ve been black-listing spam hosts. This has been minimally effective - but some changes are in store to increase the effectiveness of our black list. One guy threatened to sue - until we mailed his spam email to his State Attorney General.
We did have two problems, however.

We store the […]

Adding a good blog to your web site, in many cases, can dramatically increase your web traffic. We’ve seen it work. Let’s look at the strategy here and related costs.
First - the direct costs are almost zero. You can use an open source and free blog such as WordPress for many hosts. It’s also […]

With a Bush Administratin and Congress that seems owned by te DMA, the business of stopping spam is in your own hands. And yes, it can be controlled. To quote Jim Louderback, Editor-in-Chief at PC Magazine:
We can’t rely on someone else to fix this problem…Although the bad guys are ultimately to blame, each of us, […]

Links to your site are important for that web traffic, but are important in two different ways: building search engine traffic and simple referrals.
Search Engine Traffic
A link into your site from a popular site is useful for positioning you well in the search engines if it is a text link and contains important keyword phrases. […]

For getting high traffic, web sites and blogs involve different strategies.
If you are using a web site to sell your ideas, visions, or services you will probably find that most people find your site using the search engines. This means positioning well in the engines on your relevant keywords. This positioning, at least […]

Adding Darcy to our home page and giving her a special Darcy page increased our web traffic initially by 300%. It’s now more like an increase of 200% over early November. Quite a respectable increase.
On our ministry blog, the blog there is really driving the traffic, which has increased by 50% since October. It’s […]

From a recent speech by Jeff Jarvis - an insider to big media. Jeff worked for the New York Daily News, TV Guide, and People. He founded Entertainment Weekly:
The days of “we own the media” are over. We owned the free press for a century, now the people own it.
We think […]

Our updatded (Version 3) of our blogging ebook is now available…

Get your blog working for you….

All of the major search engines except MSN were birthed at universities. Both Google and Yahoo began their life at Stanford University. Their public mission statement is to organize the chaotic information of the Internet into a useful order that people can access based on their need using queries. All of them have evolved into […]