Google Sitemaps and the Yahoo! store “404 error” page.
By now many of you have seen the new “Google Sitemap Verification File” option under “Search Engines” in your store manager. If not, then go take a look, I’ll wait… One of the more powerful features...
View ArticleMore on Yahoo store “404 error” pages and Google. (Analytics this time…)
Ok, now that everyone has had a chance to develop a “content rich” super-converting 404-error page, it’s time to put it to good use. And what better use for an error page, than to have it give us some...
View ArticleMy New Year’s Resolution: 1024×768
And it might be yours too! It’s worth taking a look at your analytics “Screen Resolutions” report from time to time. The last time I heard someone quote a statistic on how many people used 800×600...
View ArticleHow to identify bad SEO companies
If it wasn’t so irritating, it would be funny. I just received an email forwarded by a client from an SEO firm trying to contact me. The SEO firm sent an email to the client’s “info@” address to try...
View ArticleNew York SES Party List
So, of course, the SES that Sally and & I won’t be attending has an *OFFICIAL* SES NYC 2007 Party & Events Schedule. Put together by Joe Morin, no less. Sounds like a lot of fun, and it looks...
View ArticlePubCon 2007 “Tools of the Trade” session
For all of you asking for notes from the SEO Tools presentation, here are the links to (most) of the tools mentioned: Derek Vaugn, Techpad Agency http://webceo.com/ Keyword rank checking; like...
View ArticleCreating a second FireFox profile for SEO
Note: A link to instructions for Mac users is at the bottom of this post -s I started reading up on how to develop a FireFox Extension and one of the first recommendations is to create a separate...
View ArticleUn-Tynt Your Website (for Apache)
For more on the entire Tynt issue, see Eric Lander’s blog post on Tynt. If you’re on an Apache server with mod rewrite & want to prevent Tynt from displaying your site here are some rules that may...
View ArticleUpdate the “hosts” file on Win7
First, some prep work Since it’s likely that you’ll use this technique more than once some preparation will ensure things go more smoothly the NEXT time you have to edit your hosts file. If you pin the...
View ArticleGoogle Tag Manager for BigCommerce
Yes, it IS possible to use Google Tag Manager to implement Google Analytics on a BigCommerce site. Before we dive in I want to thank one of my developers, Scott Rarden and also Anirudh from Google for...
View ArticleCompress photo-realistic images to JPG for use on the web
Setup: Select ‘Save for Web’ and adjust the tab for the ‘2-Up’ display. Set the compression method to JPEG. Select the ‘Progressive’ option. Compressing: Click on the drop-down to the right of...
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