October 2011
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The Limitations of Your CMS
I’m working on a live refresh for the Walton Arts Center, a local arts organization. It’s making me think of the Diocletian Baths, now the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs.
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SEO Tip #23
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Lab Report: Panda Updates
On October 13th, Google updated its search algorithm, causing seriously reduced search traffic for a lot of websites. This analytics screen shot shows that our lab site, FreshPlans, was one of them. The left side of the screen shows our typical traffic, while the right side shows our traffic beginning on October 14th. As the…
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When Your Content Gets Stolen
A client recently told me to hold off on writing his blog posts for a while. “You write too well,” he said, “people keep stealing the content.” He plans to deal with that and then get back to me.
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Google Analytics: Wins and Losses
We got access to the search queries, but we’ve lost some of our keyword data. Google will no longer show the keywords used by people who are signed into their Google accounts. Instead we are being told “not provided” for those visitors. For the week since the change took place, “not provided” was the #3…
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Give Up the Term “SEO”?
At dinner one evening at Google Camp in Rome, Craig Johnston of Sudjam (that’s him at right with Josepha) suggested that the term “search engine optimization” should be dumped.