SEO Tidbit - June 22, 2009
Many designers, developers, content managers and webmasters forget to utilize text or body copy for navigation and internal linking structure. Part of a strong optimization process involves capitalizing on your content for in-content or contextual links which link to pages deep within you site.
Use good anchor text that relates to the page you are linking to and if possible use text that is found within your title tag, description or page headlines. Of course this may mean rewriting some of these elements to be more optimized to your targeted key phrase.
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Web Design Tidbit - June 15th, 2009
Ever need to quickly create a tab for a navigation element? With the Tab Generator it is quick and easy to generate any kind of tab you can imagine. Download it as a png and import into your design. As it says on the website - Tabs have never been easier!
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SEO Tidbit - June 8th 2009
Do not allow your administration page to get indexed by the search engines
With this one simple line added to your robots.txt file you can avoid having your content management system (CMS) administration or login page indexed by the search engines.
Disallow: /admin/
Note: change “admin” to whatever directory or page has your CMS login on it. For example in Wordpress this would be:
Disallow: /wp-login.php
For good measure you could also add this meta tag to the head of your login page or the index page in your login directory.
meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow”
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How to Write a Website Design RFP
We’ve seen our fair share of RFPs (Request For Proposal) and it seems as if all of them miss one or more important elements. Elements that we, the web design service provider, need to know in order to respond. So I have included our recommendations for writing a website design (or redesign) RFP. We hope this will help you when preparing your next web design RFP.
Company Information and Background
This should be a brief overview of the company, its history, services or products, business focus, marketing objectives and market demographics. These are just a few elements you could include here. [...] Continue Reading…
