Leese Internet Technology

Just to let everyone know, if you are having difficulty finding a post on our website, we are moving to a new format that includes our post name in the title. So this means two changes, one is in how the posts are referenced and two is in the names. We are going to select titles that more accurately reflect the content in the post so that search engines are able to figure out what is the most important information in our posts. This is a valuable tip for everyone looking for some easy, cheap seo. Make sure your url has a search term or two that relates to the actual content of the page.

I recently discovered that microformats are being used on Google Maps. Even though I am a few months behind on this discovery, I think that it will really broaden the use and start a trend of incorporating them websites. We have incorporated them into this blog for about a year now, and we really enjoyed enhancing the Niceville Chamber of Commerce website with them and their events. So it will be interesting to see if/how microformats build momentum.

[editor: this post is a condensed version of an email written by Michael Provencher of Sators.com for a client and outlines SEO so well, we decided to post it so that we can direct future clients to it for reading]

[Here] are some things I know as far as SEO. The PAID route, means looking into Google Adwords, Yahoo! ads, etc, etc. Paying for search engine placement. That could be a direction they go, which will mean a little bit of research and communication with them to determine what they are looking to spend, etc.

The “unpaid” route, which still means they pay us, is what we can organically do for them: (more…)

There is evidence that even though they are a pain the in neck, sitemaps are a valuable tool. In fact, I just used the sitemap on moreover.com to find out the url for submitting a sitemap.

And in order that this blog be used as a reference for both myself and others, here is a list of locations for submitting sitemaps to Yahoo!, Google, MoreOver.com and Ask.com:

• http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=<URL_HERE>
• http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=<URL_HERE>
• https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites
• http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/