Summary: When it comes to ranking high with your web pages, there are some very basic but often overlooked SEO strategies, starting with making your page title (and SERP link text) enticingly clickable…

When it comes to on-page optimization and increasing your conversion rates, you have to place the important things above the fold.

People don’t scroll, and are used to clicking on the first result they see, which usually means the top three search results. And the sites at the number one position can get nearly 35% of all the clicks.

It’s important to rank high…but ranking high alone is not enough. …

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If you aren’t promoting your site with video you should be. Not sure how to go about it?  Read on…

Designing and implementing a goal-driven strategy for Video SEO is imperative to its success. In today’s post, Phil outlines the core goals video can provide for SEO and explains what type of content is required for businesses to reach Video SEO glory.

The core tactics of technical Video SEO are pretty easy to pick up. You can read through the bulk of what there is to know about getting rich snippets, optimizing for YouTube, and driving links back to your site …

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Learn the basics of SEO to get your site visible in the search engines…

SEO is hot. Thanks to fierce competition between websites it’s become more important than ever for online success. But what exactly is SEO? Which approaches are recommended and which tactics should be avoided? In the following weeks we’ll find an answer to these questions. Today we start this Tuts+ Session with an introduction to SEO.

SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. It describes a series of techniques which improve the visibility of a website in search engine result pages. The goal of such optimization is …

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The first step to all webdesigns is planning the overall layout of the pages…

As Web Designers, we follow a lot of design paradigms and layout principles: grids, vertical consistency, the F-Layout, Z-Layout, rule of thirds, the Golden-Ratio and so on. Paying attention to these principles will produce visually appealing and functional design – let’s now look at the simple division of a page into two equal halves.

While this might sound a little silly and obvious in the beginning, this fundamental layout can be very effective. Our eyes tend to follow a zig-zag motion while skimming through a page. If …

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This article points out the importance of adding fresh content to your website to keep the search engines coming back, and to show your customers that “the lights are on and somebody is home”…

Content Writing is the third leg in the tripod of a strong SEO strategy. The first two legs are On-Page SEO and Backlinking. However, those two are not enough on their own — they must be supported with strong content.

Most businesses worry about the commitment associated with having a company blog, but it’s not as high as you might think. Most people can write a short …

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