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June 9th, 2011

Google Is Talking To you! Are You Listening?

Did you know that Google is freely giving away advice to help you perform what they consider the BEST SEO PRACTICES? Are you ready for some good news? Google is freely giving away advise to help you perform what they consider to be the best SEO practices. The Google chat forums have multiple PDF’s providing information on just about everything you need to know to have a wildly succesful site.

Check out this PDF for a full SEO overview created just for you by google:

SEO pdf by Google

In this guide google goes over:

SEO Basics

Create unique, accurate page titles

Make use of the “description” meta tag

Improving Site Structure

Improve the structure of your URLs

Make your site easier to navigate

Optimizing Content

Offer quality content and services

Write better anchor text

Optimize your use of images

Use heading tags appropriately

Dealing with Crawlers

Make effective use of robots.txt

Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links

SEO for Mobile Phones

Notify Google of mobile sites

Guide mobile users accurately

Promotions and Analysis

Promote your website in the right ways

Make use of free webmaster tools

Just Another Free SEO Tip from the guys at HitBrand Consulting!

June 11th, 2010

Check your site For W3C Validation For Free

Here is another free resource. Check your site for W3C validation service for free. Will this affect your your SEO on your site today? maybe not, will it affect your site in the future? we think so!

What is W3C Validation?

“The Markup Validation Service by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) allows Internet users to check HTML documents for conformance to HTML or XHTML standards. It also provides a quick method for web page authors to check their posted pages for mark-up errors.[1] ” Thanks To Wikipedia

So here is the the link- Simply enter a website and the service will check your site for W3C errors and create a complete report for you free of charge!

W3C Validation Service Checker

May 11th, 2010

Link HTML

Everytime I create an article in a directory for on of our clients I end of doing a search for link html or html link. I memorized the structure buts its jsut easier for my to copy and paste the code, then to type it in myself. Use this post as a referance on how to create a link for html. 

Links and Hyperlinks

In web terms, a hyperlink is a reference point (an address) to another resource on the web.

Hyperlinks can point to any resource on the web like an HTML page, any image, any sound file or a movie.

An HTML Link

Link syntax:

<a href=”url”>Link text</a>

The start tag contains attributes about the link.

The element content (Link text) defines the keyword to be displayed.