Research & Development for 3D & the Web

You've set up your site with some SEO best practices, now its time to sit back and see how we fare.. How can we track this most effectively? Google Analytics lets us track traffic patterns on your website for free. Since it's Google, it can be integrated easily with other great related Google tools such as AdWords and AdSense. All you need to get started is a google account (preferably with a gmail account since you need this for receiving emailed reports) and away you go. Simply add the website Read more [...]

An awesome guide to WordPress specific SEO can be found here: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#permalinks . I’ve just finished doing a bit of tinkering after reading this so we’ll have to see how it goes now.

SEO - Keywords and Meta Tags Google no longer requires keywords or meta tags but other search engines still use them so they're useful to have. Google scans the content that is on all pages of your site instead. If you have your relevant words in images and such google won't be able to read these and it will be detrimental to your rating. It's therefore worthwhile to use text for these where possible. Keywords definitely have value, but they can also damage your website's reputation if not Read more [...]

Bots, Spiders, Crawlers The job of collecting information about web pages is performed by automation using an agent called a 'crawler, spider or robot (bot) which is different depending on the search engine. They look at every URL on the internet and collect keywords, links, relevant data and phrases on each page. Before it can do that, the network administrator must allow these agents to look at the content the website provides. Crawlers/bots etc. look at the coding behind the scenes too. Google Read more [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) I've recently started reading a book by Mike Monahan called "Search Engine Optimization Secrets: SEO for 2011" in the hopes of understanding SEO better. I have yet to decide whether or not I will try and practice this on one of my sites.. I've no doubt they are horribly bad having never really looked into SEO before for any of them. My next series of posts will be related to SEO and contain notes taken from reading Mike Monahan's book. How do you get your Website Read more [...]