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How to write search engine friendly content. The most common deal breakers, and so easily avoided! -optimize your content-

Feb.06, 2009 in SEO - Content for Rankings Leave a Comment

One of the biggest rule breakers still - for optimized content is plagarism. Funny enough, we remember well when having to write school papers that our content needs to be unique. However, I still run into this so often. If your search engine optimization company is with the times or ahead of the learning curve, […]

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Increasing website sales

Aug.27, 2008 in SEO - Content for Rankings Leave a Comment

Website design should be properly performed so that a website attracts traffic and increases rankings. However, if some of the most obvious sales rules are broken, even your best coded, well ranking website will not convert visitors into customers. Here are the top three Must Do sell points for a website that are also most […]

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    • Leadership Blogging, It’s All About Leading
      The following post is a counterpoint to the Outspoken Media post titled “Would I Recognize Your Blog In A Dark Alley“, and exists to offer an alternative path to land of unicorns and rainbows. First off there’s nothing wrong with running a community driven website or blog, in fact in many cases it can be an [...]<p>This post originally came from <a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/about-graywolf/'>Michael Gray</a> who is an <a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/information/consulting/'>SEO Consultant</a>. Be sure not to miss the <a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/thesis-wordpress-theme-review/'>Thesis Wordpress Theme review</a>. </p> <p><a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/leadership-blogging/">Leadership Blogging, It’s All About Leading</a></p> Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/video/michael-gray-video/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Michael Gray on Video'>Michael Gray on Video</a> <small>While most</small></li></ol> Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.
    • Can You Get a Website Indexed with No Links and XML Sitemaps?
      This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links. Since some piano player in New Jersey owns the domain MichaelGray.com I had a few options but the [...]<p>This post originally came from <a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/about-graywolf/'>Michael Gray</a> who is an <a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/information/consulting/'>SEO Consultant</a>. Be sure not to miss the <a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/thesis-wordpress-theme-review/'>Thesis Wordpress Theme review</a>. </p> <p><a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/website-indexed-no-links/">Can You Get a Website Indexed with No Links and XML Sitemaps?</a></p> Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/figure-out-what-parts-site-arent-being-crawled/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How To Figure Out What Parts of Your Website Aren’t Being Crawled'>How To Figure Out What Parts of Your Website Aren’t Being Crawled</a> <small>When Googl</small></li><li><a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/google-guide-seo-social-media-links-death-row/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Google Guide to SEO – Are Social Media Links on Death Row?'>Google Guide to SEO – Are Social Media Links on Death Row?</a> <small>I was read</small></li><li><a href='http://www.wolf-howl.com/news/website-viralconversationscom/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: New Website ViralConversations.com'>New Website ViralConversations.com</a> <small>So if you</small></li></ol> Related posts brought to you by <a href='http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin</a>.
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    • Video Game Web Site Showcase: 75+ Examples of Game Site Design
      <p>For such a large industry, not much is written about video game web site design.</p> <p>The only article of note in my recent memory is one by <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/21/game-sites-design-survey-examples-and-current-practices/">Smashing Magazine</a> which offered some useful insights into good and bad game web site design practices.</p><p>Working for an online game publisher, this is an area of interest to me and I try to stay on top of what's happening in this part of the web design industry, although usually within the <span class="caps">MMORPG </span>sub-genre.</p> <p>To that end, I have collected together over 75 examples of <a href="http://www.smileycat.com/design_elements/video_games/">creative video game web site design</a>.</p> <p>Not surprisingly, if you click through to many of these sites from the showcase you should be prepared to encounter Flash pre-loaders, age gates, country selectors, sound effects, and auto-playing music.</p> <p>However, this is far from being always the case and there is actually a surprising variety in the presentation of these sites. Oh, and lots of good design — take <a href="http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/">The Beatles Rock Band</a> as a 'for instance.'</p> <div class="image"><a class="image" href="http://www.smileycat.com/design_elements/video_games/" title="Video game web site design gallery"><img width="540" src="http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/images/videogames/beatles-rockband.jpg" alt="The Beatles Rock Band" /></a><p>The Beatles Rock Band</p></div> <p>So, enjoy the <a href="http://www.smileycat.com/design_elements/video_games/">video game web site showcase</a> and let me know if I've missed off your favorite game.</p> <p>Oh, and my favorite gaming site? It's not original but it's still got to be <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/">Diablo 3</a>. The art direction is incredible.</p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?a=FFkTN5Jr4CQ:kcAsiUg_qTQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?a=FFkTN5Jr4CQ:kcAsiUg_qTQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?a=FFkTN5Jr4CQ:kcAsiUg_qTQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?a=FFkTN5Jr4CQ:kcAsiUg_qTQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/smileycat?i=FFkTN5Jr4CQ:kcAsiUg_qTQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smileycat/~4/FFkTN5Jr4CQ" height="1" width="1"/>
    • 10 Quick and Dirty Ways to Lay Out a List of Links
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