July 2010

4 elements of a successful SEO strategy

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 30, 2010 - 1:43pm

Everyone has their own approach to SEO. Whether you are optimizing your websites for clients or your own internal business, there are several factors which should always be taken into consideration. Many times the basic 4 elements of a successful SEO campaign are done without even realizing it, or (in worst case scenarios) they are ignored or skipped.

However, knowledge is power and it is of benefit for everyone working in the industry to be able to communicate to their client (or their boss) exactly what they are doing and why.

Google Reveals New Notifications for Crawl Errors

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 28, 2010 - 5:52pm

If you are using google webmaster tools (and you should be), then you may have noticed a nifty new feature for new notifications if there is a change in the number of crawl errors that your site is experiencing.

On Monday July 26, 2010 Google revealed on their official webmaster central blog, that they have implemented a new notification feature.

Matt Cutts Reveals How to Get Free Links...and Drupal can too!

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 27, 2010 - 12:06pm

Back in 2008, Google's Matt Cutts revealed on his Blog, how webmasters can easily find back links to their websites that they may have not even known existed. The technique is freely available to anyone. It is open for anyone using their Google WebMaster tools. Right within Google’s dashboard, there is a field for web crawl errors.

Florida SEO - Busy at Search Engine Optimization

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 27, 2010 - 11:40am

We have been so busy building out websites for clients as well as working on projects for others that we have not had any time to care for our own blogs and sites … That brings to attention an important subject.

How critical is managing your client's businesses when it effects that potential growth and expansion of your own?

This is a fairly difficult decision to deal with. On one hand, the clients pay the bills … on the other, if you don’t take care of your business, it is not going to grow.

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The Fort Lauderdale SEO blog is provided as an information resource for individuals and businesses looking to enhance their skills with Search Engine Optimization. We are located in South Florida and provide our information to our local community as well as the entire nation.

SEO Fort Lauderdale - Is Search Engine Optimization Worth the Effort?

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 27, 2010 - 10:24am

I will have to say that the optimization is worth the effort, a whole industry revolves around it and keyword research is the driving factor to start any SEO campaign. While the term "Fort Lauderdale SEO" may not generate a huge amount of traffic, the term is extremely relevant to this website and our business. South Florida Web Studio is a local Fort Lauderdale, FL SEO company (Actually we are in Hollywood, but we are considered part of Greater Fort Lauderdale).

First comment spam post, after only a few hours. That has to mean something.

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 26, 2010 - 2:06pm

Well we just launched our site last Friday.

Or shall I clarify, we just aquired a new domain that had expired. On Friday, all of the details were finalized with our registrar and we switched the DNS to a freshly installed Drupal website with no content.

We began setting up our pages and adding some basic redirected content this morning and after less than 4 hours we have aquired our first comment spam.

Florida SEO » Links? I don’t need links …

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 26, 2010 - 1:23pm

Alright, this is really just another shameless plug to support some pages that i have ignored, which could use some more link juice and IBL’s (In Bound Links) … To begin, let’s work with my favorite site in the universe, South Florida Web Design.

Search Engine Optimization Does Not Equal Traffic

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 26, 2010 - 12:59pm

Many people think that if a website ranks for a searched term, that it will automatically produce traffic.
This is simply not so.

WordPress Blank Screen of Death Solved

Submitted by SEOFortLauderdale on July 26, 2010 - 10:27am

For a long time individuals have been having difficulties because of the WordPress blank screen of death. It would appear that there are many issues that can cause your WordPress install to become corrupt. After deleting the wp-config file, the core site files and removing, installing, activating and deactivating plug-ins, scouring through days worth of blog posts … manyhave come up empty for a resolution to the dreaded problem. However, the situation with our installs might have been found.