News & Media
DMNews Goes Web 2.0 – feeds, trackbacks, comments & more
DMNews.com has relaunched with a new design and a new back-end, both done by us at Netconcepts. On their blog, DM News’ founder and publisher Adrian Courtenay talks about the relaunch and gives us such glowing praise that I feel myself blushing! A few new features worth noting: The entire archives have been opened up. […]
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DM News is the leading trade publication for direct, database and Internet marketers. It is both in print and online. This total site revamp included user interface, look and feel, database, back-end programming, with SEO built in. The archives, with articles numbering over 25,000, is now completely open whereas previously it was restricted. Deep links […]
Read MoreBlack Hat SEO
Search engines utilize both automated and manual means for detecting spam. Sophisticated algorithms look for abnormalities in inbound/outbound linking, sentence structure, HTML coding, and so on.
Read MoreSEO Report Card: As-Seen-on-TV-Store-1.com
Even though Iâ??ve received dozens of requests for site gradings, this month I’ve decided to pick a site that didnâ??t ask for it. Why? Because this month Iâ??m going to air some poor, unsuspecting black-hat SEO’s dirty laundry in order that you might learn from their mistakes and indiscretions, rather than subject a loyal Practical eCommerce reader to potential intense and unwanted scrutiny by search engine reps reading this article. There are so many sites out there committing search engine sins, it was really hard to settle on one.
Read MoreTalkback: Don’t hide words from search engines
Contrary to popular belief, there is more to increasing a website’s visibility in search engines than just sprinkling a handful of keywords on it. The way a site is designed and built has a major impact on whether search engine spiders are even able to access the content. Don’t assume that every programmer or web designer will know how to build a website that is balanced for the target market – and for the major search engines alike.
Read MoreTaking full advantage of CSS
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) offers many more benefits beyond that of streamlined web pages with table-less layouts and precise positioning (no more transparent 1-pixel spacer GIFs!), mentioned in my previous post. Indeed, that’s just scratching the surface of CSS. Here are some more clever things you can do with CSS to get your website really […]
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