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The strong link between Usability & SEO (Editor's Pick)

Search engines are enhanced by having the most relevant results in their index. A clean site hierarchy and an easily understood navigation structure will benefit both usability and SEO.

SEO for Local Search (Editor's Pick)

It is vital to ensure that your web site is ranked well in searches for your local area. Are you ranking well in the searches of your local area?

Do you use Alt Attributes with Care? (Editor's Pick)

Many webmasters and inexperienced or unethical SEOs abuse the use of this attribute, trying to stuff it with keywords, hoping to achieve a certain keyword density, which is not as relevant for rankings now as it once was.

Why Ethical SEO Practices are Important

Poorly executed SEO campaigns can put your business at serious risk. They can lead to search engine penalties and long term harm to your organization's online presence.

SEO Analysis Tool (Editor's Pick)

The meta tags and associated information, keyword densities, and other information are critical elements for optimization. This tool will perform a basic analysis for a single web page.

Why SEO should be important to you

SEO is an abbreviation of Search Engine Optimization. This is the process of structuring a web page so that it is found, read, and indexed by search engines in the most effective manner possible.

Get rid of those directory snippets using NOODP & NOYDIR

What do search engines display when your pages are in the results of a search? This tutorial describes techniques you can use to help refine what people see about your page.

Is your Web Site Optimized for Accessible Search?

Is your web site accessible? What does that have to do with SEO? This article introduces you to Google Accessible Search and what it could mean to you and your business.

Preventing Search Engine Indexing of Secure Pages

Is Google indexing your secure pages? Would you like it not to do so? Read this article to learn how to avoid or correct what could be a serious problem with your SEO strategy.

Why usability is important to you

On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a web site is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave.

Why accessibility is important to you

Accessibility is becoming increasingly critical to the Internet experience. Is your site accessible to people with disabilities? Is it compatible with browsers other than Internet Explorer?

Skip to Main Content Links are Important

Providing skip links are recommended for blind or visually impaired users, people who use screen readers, and also for text-browsers, mobile phones and PDAs. They enhance the accessibility of your web site.

The need for accessibility

Making your goods and services available to persons with disabilities is not just a good idea, in many cases it is required by law. The same can be true for your web site as well.

Accessibility Testing

Accessibility testing for web sites is a service that can provide much more than the standard point-by-point testing techniques of most automated services.

Avoid forcing to open in a new window

Actually you should avoid forcing links to open in a new window or pop ups (such as with the "target" attribute or with Java Script). As you might know, Java Script is not supported by all browsers or some users disable it.

Why should you Spell Check your Web Site?

Do you spell-check the content of your web pages? Is that important for SEO? This article explains why proper spelling can make a big difference to your bottom line.

Search Engine Friendly HTTP 301 Permanent Redirects

This tutorial describes how to properly implement search engine friendly redirects using an HTTP 301 status code and Location header.

Is your Web Site Optimized for Search Engines? (Editor's Pick)

SEO is the method of analyzing and constructing individual web pages, as well as entire sites, so that they can be discovered, analyzed, and then indexed by various search engines.

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