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admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:23:44 +0000

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SEO tip

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:20:15 +0000

This is a test post to see if tis will post automatically to my Facebook business page for AED Web Design. Headquartered in Loveland, Ohio, we specialize in providing measurable search engine results for small business at an affordable price. We use a variety of methods to achieve positive results in a timely fashion. Please contact us for a free estimate regarding your web site development and SEO needs 513 / 919-1985.

History of SEO

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:44:29 +0000

Did you know that Webmasters and internet content providers first started doing SEO back in the mid-90′s? Since then SEO has changed quite a bit. In the early days, webmasters needed only to submit their page addresses or URLs to the various search engines, who would then send spiders to crawl through and index the sites. Soon after people started looking for ways to manipulate the search engines indexing algorithms in order to achieve first page results.

The first algorithm crackers appeared around 1997. This was the year that several SEO providers decoded all 35 parameters of Excite’s algorithm. No wonder that Google and the other major search engines guard their selection criteria with tremendous effort and expense. If people were allowed to manipulate the search engines then said search engines lose all credibility!

The arrival of Google ushered in a new way of ranking pages … search engine results now depended on value and search relevance. More complex algorithms started being developed that took into account off-site factors. At this point Alta Vista was ahead of the pack with Lycos , Yahoo, MSN and Infoseek capturing the rest of the market. Google was founded in 1998. Google’s algorithm, PageRank, determines site rankings by measuring the quantity and quality of their outbound links. Google had superior relevant search results and quickly captured market share.

In my next post I will write about the “Google Age”

Stay tuned!

Social Media and SEO

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:53:34 +0000

Social Media is becoming very important with respect to SEO. Listed below are some of the most important things that any small business needs to be working on as we move forward in 2010. Google includes “real time” social media posts in its search results now … so it is critical to get involved in these areas of social networking.

Write a blog! This is an opportunity to share thoughts about your business … be consistent (weekly) … some ideas for example is to write something about your employees, a new product, a customer testimonial, etc…
Get involved with linked in … make sure that your profile is 100% complete and use targeted key words … participate in the “answers section” on a weekly basis and then join some groups.
Join Facebook! There are 350,000 000 active accounts on Facebook today. Create a business Facebook page to be helpful … talk about an upcoming sale … or offer some coupons … be helpful and transparent … participate in this community!
Twitter! Listen to what customers are saying … industry news … search on your own business name and keywords … use it for customer service …

Good luck!

Hello world!

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:05:35 +0000

Did you know that this site was created using WordPress? I discovered WordPress about three weeks ago and have developed several sites since. Here are the reasons that I like WordPress so much.

It is free
Fast and easy to install
Thousands of high quality themes and plugins
Good visual content editor
One of most popular CMS available
Can have multiple authors on web site
Blogging capabilities
Good security from hackers
All code is Web Standard and so
Google really loves it!
Can handle tons of visitors and not break down
Interface is easy to understand
It is open source … there is a huge user base

Well thats it … tell me what you think?