First let me say I believe in SEO as a concept. I have been practicing it for years, I think every web master does. Hasn't it always been our aim to get our web sites into the top 10, even 5? That is what SEO is all about. Getting your page listed before your competitions.
Here is were the rub comes. Do a search, in my case I used dairy lab as the keyword. Look at who comes up first. Check out the code source....can you find any keywords? Google keyword search provides just two search waikato milk meter and waikato milk meters. Take a look at the site. Is it attractive, is there any text that draws you to dairy lab? Does their logo have alt tags? Do their links say dairy lab anyplace? No, all this site has going for it is the domain name.
So here is my thought for today. Practice search engine optimization at all times but don't count on it to make you rich. There are obviously other factors that get you to the top.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Google Chrome
Just a note for my students and anybody else out there that is following along. These are not new issues with Chrome but if you are like me you have resisted downloading Chrome until only recently.
Nobody tells you when you start using Chrome that it is not full featured. That is the reason it seems so much faster than Internet Explorer and even Firefox. So what does that mean to someone using it to view web pages? Some of the features built into web pages may not show up for you. To fix this you need to go to the Chrome plugins page and download the features you need.
From a web site creator it means you probably need to put notifications on your web sites telling folks that use Chrome to download the plugin necessary to see all of the cool stuff you have created for the viewer.
My most recent brush with Chrome involves RSS feeds, on of the potentially most useful tools to web site management. The fix for this one can be reached at this address:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd
Personnally, I think it was all just easier when Microsoft controlled 95% of everything!
Nobody tells you when you start using Chrome that it is not full featured. That is the reason it seems so much faster than Internet Explorer and even Firefox. So what does that mean to someone using it to view web pages? Some of the features built into web pages may not show up for you. To fix this you need to go to the Chrome plugins page and download the features you need.
From a web site creator it means you probably need to put notifications on your web sites telling folks that use Chrome to download the plugin necessary to see all of the cool stuff you have created for the viewer.
My most recent brush with Chrome involves RSS feeds, on of the potentially most useful tools to web site management. The fix for this one can be reached at this address:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd
Personnally, I think it was all just easier when Microsoft controlled 95% of everything!
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