When designing a mobile experience for your site, it can sometimes be confusing on how exactly to start. Three main options for configuring your site include responsive design, dynamic serving or mobile URLs. Responsive Design A responsive design displays the same content on every platform, but is able to detect different devices and changes the…
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Google Penguin 2.0 – How it Changed SEO
The Google Penguin 2.0 update has gone live. In this post we cover insight from Ignite Visibility on what this update changed. It should be noted that up until now, there have been limited reports on what has actually changed. Search Engine Land stated that adult websites and gaming sites ranked worse. But this is…
Common SEO Misconceptions Video
In SEO there are many common misconceptions. In this video, Matt Cutt’s addresses these three. (1) SEOs confuse algorithm updates with data refreshes. (2) Panda & Penguin algorithms are not about making Google more money. Instead, they are about improving user experience. (3) SEOs spend too much time on linking. Instead, they should focus on…
Why Do Some SEO Companies Cost So Much?
SEO is a pretty technical profession. Think of hiring an SEO expert as finding someone who is a cross between an engineer, an MBA and a content creator. There are lots of people who are good a few of these things, but few people who are good at all of them. For this reason, SEO…
What does Facebook Talking About This Mean?
Facebook has a metric called Talking About This. The Facebook Talking About This metric means the number of people who have created a story about your page. But what does Facebook Talking About This really mean? Allow us to do some more explaining. According to Facebook, creating a story about your page means that a…
Do Sitemaps help Google SEO?
Many people ask do sitemaps help SEO? Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for SEO is create a sitemap. By having a sitemap, you can tell search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing exactly where your content lives on the website. It will also help them find pages that may be buried…
Google Code-in 2012
Open source software is critical to developers. In website development, you can make an entire career out of an open source platform. Just look at Drupal, WordPress and Joombla development for example. One hue supporter of the development of open source software is Google Code-in 2012, a contest that gives pre-university students (13-17 years old)…
SEO Facts: The Big List of SEO Facts
Welcome to the ever expanding list of SEO facts from Ignite Visibility. Please read, share and comment on this post to make it the best possible list of facts on search engine optimization. URL SEO Facts (7) Dashes are a best practice rather than underscores or no space The shorter the URL the better It…
10 Hot Social Media Sites to Watch in 2013
People use social media sites for many reasons. A survey released by Pew Internet last year revealed that about half of all social media users gave connecting with people with shared hobbies or interests as at least one of the reasons they use social media. While the prime motivation of the majority of users was…
Facebook Social Login Button Helping Websites
The Facebook social login button allows a website owner to provide users with the option to log into their website with the Facebook information. This has many benefits such as: – Reducing registration time – Capturing all data quickly from Facebook – Bringing the trust and credibility of Facebook to the website. In most cases,…