Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction
I think that they are useful, but I am biased because I am a SEO Consultant. However, we are not all created equal. I wrote a very short article on this that you can read here: http://www.mustainconsulting.com/docs/prs2007novdec.pdf Basically, you need to research a SEO professional, just like you would for a marketing firm your company planned to use. Do they have experience? Who are some of their other clients? Do their services seem gimmicky? I wouldn't pay much attention to anyone that says they can solve all of your site's problems for 1 set fee. Each site, depending on size and competition, may take more or less work to optimize. While meta data and content are important, there are other factors that are involved. You can take care of a number of your site's problems on your own. The real talent of a SEO professional is letting them do the complex analysis of your site, the competitors you have in your market and what other things you could be doing to boost your site's "relevance" with search engines. I hope this helps you in making your decision, but remember, choose wisely. Even asking for a free basic analysis, where they tell you what the problem are, not necessarily how to fix them. Then, if you are satisfied with the analysis, you can pay them to put together a report of the "remedies". Keith On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Dannielle Chun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Weberati, > > First, apologies to the list if this discussion has been had before, I'm > newish here. > > I'm interested in how you all feel about SEO experts? > > Me, I'm old fashion and tend to rely on meta tags to content ratios and > link exchange. Am I being naive? Or are the following types of promises more > valid than free tools like this one:- * > http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ > * > "... let me undertake an SEO health check of your site. Just a quick look > at your site tells me immediately that it is not presently optimized for > search engine performance. A professional SEO report will ensure you change > the right things in the right way. > > The report will identify the best phrases to use to improve your organic > ranking and get maximum free traffic. Using specialist Search Engine > Optimisation tools I will identify the optimum keywords for your business. I > will document where your site currently ranks in the top 100 results for > each keyword and allocate a percentage difficulty to each of them and advise > you (objectively) on which words to integrate into your copy. > > I will ascertain your current link strength/popularity and advise how you > might improve that and provide detailed recommendations on HTML title > elements, meta tags, navigation structure, use of Flash, correct code > validation and much more. It is the best investment you can make before > changing anything on your website." > > > Thanks! > Dannielle > > *** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** -- Keith Steinacher Chief Bottle-Washer *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] SEO, fact or fiction
Hi Weberati, First, apologies to the list if this discussion has been had before, I'm newish here. I'm interested in how you all feel about SEO experts? Me, I'm old fashion and tend to rely on meta tags to content ratios and link exchange. Am I being naive? Or are the following types of promises more valid than free tools like this one:- http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ "... let me undertake an SEO health check of your site. Just a quick look at your site tells me immediately that it is not presently optimized for search engine performance. A professional SEO report will ensure you change the right things in the right way. The report will identify the best phrases to use to improve your organic ranking and get maximum free traffic. Using specialist Search Engine Optimisation tools I will identify the optimum keywords for your business. I will document where your site currently ranks in the top 100 results for each keyword and allocate a percentage difficulty to each of them and advise you (objectively) on which words to integrate into your copy. I will ascertain your current link strength/popularity and advise how you might improve that and provide detailed recommendations on HTML title elements, meta tags, navigation structure, use of Flash, correct code validation and much more. It is the best investment you can make before changing anything on your website." Thanks! Dannielle *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] London Web Standards meetup for March
Hello Standaristas! Particularly the London-based ones. Your humble servant here organises a regular monthly meetup for folks to discuss web-standards issues in general in the London central area. This month meets in a Farringdon pub (cheap beer, free WiFi) and promises to be an interesting one as I have quite a good selection of interested parties. You get to set the agenda and you get to shape the next meeting. Wehad a bit of an issue about comfortable and connected venues but the Print Works seems to hit the right note. Hope you'll agree. Full details are at: http://webstandards.meetup.com/130/ RSVP on the meetup page if you're interested. Thanks. Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.joiz.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library
Just a quick thank you to everyone who replied, it's been a *huge* help. I'm carefully going over the site with your comments in mind and making many changes based upon them. I'm still very busy, but as soon as things slow down I'll try to respond in detail - meanwhile I'll just say that if there were no glaring errors, that is in large part due to the invaluable tips and hints I've picked up from careful daily reading of this list. Thanks! Andrew On 2008/02/25 10:31 (GMT-0500) Andrew Maben apparently typed: I'm almost done with a site redesign, and the time is right to ask for your opinions: http://beta.www.aclib.us for comparison, the current site is: http://www.aclib.us *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ie8 & flash scripts
Patrick Lauke wrote: There's not even a downloadable beta of ie8 out yet...so I think there won't be much of an answer beyond speculation? suppose your right early days yet. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] IE8 news
That is fantastic. Well done to all the people that engaged in this issue. And. thank you microsoft. Looking forward now to running the IE8 beta. Brad Thomas Thomassen wrote: True. IE is more than just a browser. It's a development platform. Intranet systems, HTA applications etc. Some of them might be used in mission critial systems where it's less than ideal to update the HTML and CSS every time IE updates it rendering engine so locking them self to a spesific version is very handy for them. There are still systems using DOS software for their operation because porting it to a new system would cause a great risk of bugs. - Original Message - From: "John Hancock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news ***List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmUnsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfmHelp: [EMAIL PROTECTED]***
RE: [WSG] ie8 & flash scripts
> kevin mcmonagle > hi, > anyone know how ie8 will work with ufo flash detection js and and the > standard dreamweaver flv embedding scripts? > thanks in advance > kevin There's not even a downloadable beta of ie8 out yet...so I think there won't be much of an answer beyond speculation? P Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor Enterprise & Development University of Salford Room 113, Faraday House Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT UK T +44 (0) 161 295 4779 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.salford.ac.uk A GREATER MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ie8 & flash scripts
I'm not 100%, but here is the link to the development blog http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/21/compatibility-and-ie8.aspx Should be something there if anywhere! Tom On 4 Mar 2008, at 10:37, kevin mcmonagle wrote: hi, anyone know how ie8 will work with ufo flash detection js and and the standard dreamweaver flv embedding scripts? thanks in advance kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] ie8 & flash scripts
hi, anyone know how ie8 will work with ufo flash detection js and and the standard dreamweaver flv embedding scripts? thanks in advance kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Browser Text Resizing and the Ill Effects It May Cause
Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Hi Jason, yes I do.. You can do the same thing with pictures it's really a cool effect, and helps maintain the ratio of the entire page pretty well.. I have a demo up (Currently using php to process the size of the image) if anyone wants to look: HTTP://www.raoset.com/dev/global7/ I don't mean to pick, but is it really a good tradeoff to have download an 895kb image just so it can be enlarged with the text. It seems like everyone (including your bandwidth resources) will take a big hit just so the image can grow. Respectfully, Mike Cherim The opening page of my site [1] has an image which expands with text resizing. Its size is defined in em and, yes, it does pixelate when you enarge a lot. However a .gif (which it is) seems to be better than a .jpg. I've only done it on the opening page so far, as I'm still investigating options . . . [1] www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
