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Re: What Is Dublin Core Metadata?

PatMarcello — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:53:42 -0000

If you used the same plugin as I did, then the only option is to fill in your license for a license Meta tag. If this doesn't apply, then, leave it blank.

You would only have a license if you're using someone else's software on a website, for example. Then, you might want to use your license key for verification purposes. If it's just your blog, no worries.

Re: What Is Dublin Core Metadata?

guesst — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:08:18 -0000

I am trying to use the Dublin Core for wordpress plugin and I am not understanding if I am suppose to input any information on the actual pages. I have all the options checked, but, am I suppose to input the info?

Re: Alexa and Analytics: How to Use What You Learn

Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:01:51 -0000

I actually learn to know how to check alexa a year ago. But learning the real sense of why it has an alexa rankings, are still on the process.

Re: Alexa and Analytics: How to Use What You Learn

Privatdetektiv — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:35:00 -0000

Alexa provides information about websites including Top Sites,Internet Traffic Stats and Metrics, Related Links, Online Reviews Contact Informationand Search Analytics for SEM and SEO optimization. The Alexa Toolbar is a browser add-onthat shows data about sites as you surf the web

Re: Alexa and Analytics: How to Use What You Learn

mode für mollige damen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:27:26 -0000

Alexa rank must be given importance when you are about to engage in SEO field. Beside from the Alexa rank you are also to give importance on the Page Rank.

Re: Alexa and Analytics: How to Use What You Learn

online brand — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:40:41 -0000

If you are paying attention, you can resolve the matter quickly with a
helpful reply. If you don't use social media, then there's no telling what your
customers are saying about your brand. Getting involved gives you a chance to
monitor and engage in the conversations.

Re: Fun SEO Video to Make You Smile

Cisco 1130 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:13:59 -0000

Matt Cutts is one of the most reputed person. The panda update is favourable for genuine and value based contents. Many spammy sites will be eliminated soon.

Re: Alexa and Analytics: How to Use What You Learn

Reputation Management — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:34:56 -0000

Alexa is a solid web analytics example of the science of producing
unreliable facts from reliable figures. Alexa gets the data used in the
"analysis and rank calculations" it performs from
the Alexa toolbar that active in browsers track the web pages visited.

Re: What’s a “Good” Link?

PatMarcello — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:42:32 -0000

Thanks, Jon. Yeah, the fact that you need to work on your entire website and not just the front door escapes many people.

I enjoy reading your blog, too, my friend. Thanks for your comment!

Pat

Re: What’s a “Good” Link?

Jon Cooper — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:48:30 -0000

Awesome post Pat! Gotta love "Google ranks pages, not websites". I think we tend to forget about the pages we try to rank when we send 90% of our links to our home page, as this is a huge issue few people do something about.

Hope to see more awesome posts on link building :)

Re: How Do Colors Affect Purchases?

PatMarcello — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:02:58 -0000

Thanks for your comment, Laurie!

Orange and yellow, really? Who knew? That's an interesting tidbit.

The whole idea that color motivates certain emotions is a very fascinating subject, I agree.

Pat

Re: How Do Colors Affect Purchases?

LaurieTossy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:54:13 -0000

Colors appeal and repel buyers and is used to slow people down and speed them up. It is important to know which you want to use for your business. Ever notice that yellows and oranges are very popular in fast food restaurants? That's to get people in and out quickly!

The industry for determining colors of the year/season is huge and goes into a deep science. Fascinating subject.

Re: Rel=Author: Are You Connected?

PatMarcello — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:56:31 -0000

Hi Elizabeth.... Yeah, I figured that out, too. :) Not sure what's wrong, but figured I'd use your post to go back over it again and see what was left out of the last explanation. LOL (We all tend to forget that one little item that makes the diff, eh?)

I have a WP plugin (Author META) that I'm using, but sure! I'd love to try yours. Let me know when it's ready.

Pat

Re: Rel=Author: Are You Connected?

Elizabeth Jamieson — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:48:56 -0000

Hi Pat - Thank you for replying to my comment. I see what you mean - I'd actually tried to write it for a non-tech audience!

But I did want to point out to you that your page here (at the time of writing) is not validating in the Rich Snippets tool so the author markup is unlikely to work until you do get it to validate. And even then it takes a while - I am still waiting for my image to show up, yet for one of my students, hers are already showing up in the search results.

If it helps we are writing a free WordPress plugin to help people set up rel=author and if you like you could try it out as soon as we have finished it. It may help with the snippets validation.

Re: Rel=Author: Are You Connected?

PatMarcello — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:32:42 -0000

Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for your comment. Your blog post has a more detailed explanation, for people who are more tech savvy, which is great. And yes, I'm aware of the rich snippets tool. I chose not to include it since most of the folks who read my blog regularly need to take things in steps.

We'll be talking about rich snippets more over the next few weeks, and tomorrow, I'm giving readers a video so that they can learn more about what rich snippets are and why they're important.

Just taking it one step at a time here, but your post is great!

And I agree. G+ will be around a long time, but what I meant was it's important to Google that it we use it and work with it because it is so important, hence the tie-in to search.

Pat

Re: Rel=Author: Are You Connected?

Elizabeth Jamieson — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:20:52 -0000

Pat - I just saw your post and read it with interest. Have you checked your pages using the Rich Snippets tool? Please check my instructions for doing rel=author out here :
http://www.devonwebdesigners.c...

It explains how to set up and check that what you've done is working. I think that unlike Wave and Buzz this will be around for a long time as it is now tied to search results and ranking.

Re: SEO Is NOT Dead

PatMarcello — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:34:01 -0000

Thanks for your comment. I agree with your post, too... 100%.

Pat

Re: SEO Is NOT Dead

Jhagemann — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:25:10 -0000

I very much agree and I just wrote this post on the same subject. Let me know what you think.

http://jhagemann.blogspot.com/...

Re: Google Algorithm Changes for December 2011

PatMarcello — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:12:25 -0000

I agree, however, they still show up. And no, I'm not suggesting that you buy a parked domain and get rich. I'm just saying that GoDaddy, as an example, moves a page immediately to parked. If you have "Cash Parking" enabled, you might be making some dough. 'Course it's not much, but for some folks, especially those who are just starting out, even $1 makes them smile. So, in that light, they may not be pleased. Google is weeding out these pages more quickly, it seems.

Thanks for your comment.

Pat

Re: Google Algorithm Changes for December 2011

TopDomainDeal — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:23:23 -0000

Regarding Google's algorithm change, it wasn't a
big deal. It allows them to simply find parked domains easier. They've
been delisting parked pages for quite some time now and parking has been
on the decline for years, so there's no news there - they'll just be
hitting more of them now. Parked pages haven't been able to secure major
rankings for 3+ years now except for extremely rare cases. In that
time, no one familiar with domains and parking has been expecting to buy
domains, park them, get search traffic and become rich - anyone who has
didn't do their homework first.

Re: SEO for YouTube: Get Your Channel to the Top

YoutubeFans — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:58:18 -0000

The steps you mentioned are really cool mate.. thanks

Re: Customize Camtasia Code for Your Blog

PatMarcello — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:06:53 -0000

That works, too... But what if you don't want the video on YouTube? For example, you have a membership site that runs on Wishlist and the platform is obviously WordPress. You need to protect the content so that only members can see it. So, it's good to know how to alter the code.

Your way works, for sure, but not if you're protecting content.

Thanks for your comment!

Pat

Re: Customize Camtasia Code for Your Blog

Runescape XP — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:56:41 -0000

There are a lot of hosting variables when inserting video in a website. The easiest way (imho) is in Camtasia to choose “Produce and Share” then “Share to YouTube” and Camtasia (version 7) will upload it to your YouTube account. Then, use the “embed video” link on YouTube for that video and paste it in to your web site page.

Re: Firefox Add-On: History Tree

PatMarcello — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:10:41 -0000

Yep... Old post. Thanks for the update, Cees!

Pat

Re: Firefox Add-On: History Tree

Cees Timmerman — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:17:24 -0000

That add-on and its owner disappeared. Here's an alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/...