http://www.designedforseo.com Designing Websites for SEO Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:29:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stephan Spencer, in his essay, The Art of SEO for Wikipedia and 16 Tips, makes the excellent point that Google has given tremendous authority and link popularity to Wikipedia. As a result, Wikipedia entries come up again and again at the top of the first page of a Google engine ... http://www.designedforseo.com/seo/wikipedia-importance-in-seo/ I recently got penalized for too many blog comments linking back to a site, and got totally de-listed from google. Don't let it happen to you. How do i plan to fix it? lots of new content, directory / one way legit website links with 'bland' anchor text keywords - ... http://www.designedforseo.com/tools/tools-for-seo/ http://www.morrisonandnicholson.com Domaintools.com SEO Score: 59% Google PR: 4 Backlinks: Google: 3, Yahoo : 156 Ranks (in google); #1 for "Ohio Law Blog" #2 for "Ohio Legal Blog" #14 for "Ohio Lawyers" (Nice!) #23 for "Dayton Lawyer" #7 for "Dayton Attorneys" Not in top 30 for; Ohio lawyer Dayton lawyers Dayton attorney Ohio attorney Ohio attorneys The Good; - URL's are descriptive of the page, some even contain ... http://www.designedforseo.com/sites-reviewed/seo-audit-morrison-nicholson/ Contributed by Eric Bryant, SEO specialist, Gnosis Arts One of the ways to help decrease website load time and improve website performance is by the use of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). A CDN is a service that hosts certain web elements and objects, such as images, video or audio, and serves ... http://www.designedforseo.com/design-general/content-delivery-networks/ In 2008, i started a few tests on multiple websites to confirm my suspicion that Wordpress websites are more SEO friendly, or given more weight by Google. My first test was to convert a static website, already optimized for SEO and used a CSS template to a WP CMS site. This ... http://www.designedforseo.com/seo/wordpress-great-for-seo/ Kathy Sierra says we’re all marketers:  “In this new open-source/cluetrain world, I am a marketer. And so are you. If you’re interested in creating passionate users, or keeping your job, or breathing life into a startup, or getting others to contribute to your open source project, or getting your significant ... http://www.designedforseo.com/design-general/are-designers-also-marketers/ Step 1. After installing Wordpress (WP), there are some plugins I would install before I go any further. I always use the following; XML Sitemaps : Automatically updates your XML sitemap when you add a post or page, and notifies search engines. Top Level Categories : Removed the "category" slug from your blog. ... http://www.designedforseo.com/design-general/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/ Free themes - where would we be without them? Employing more designers, but that's not the point. The evolution of free themes, Wordpress themes in particular, has been a godsend for many bloggers - myself included. With the hundreds of free themes available, some bloggers have created blogs around displaying ... http://www.designedforseo.com/blog-design/beware-of-free-themes/ You've got a new e-commerce site. Congrats! But you still have a long road ahead of you. Hopefully, you already have a plan for marketing your website. If you don't, here's a good jumping off point; Create and upload XML sitemap and notify major search engines. Set up google analytics account at ... http://www.designedforseo.com/e-commerce-design/ecommerce-marketing-checklist/ I'd like to start this post by discussing color palettes that are NOT appropriate for any legal professional's website. Let's take a look at a few websites where the color is actually distracting from the information and services a website is designed to convey. While the color scheme here certainly ... http://www.designedforseo.com/design-general/color-palate-for-legal-site/