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Validate Ordered Or Unordered List With Type = i
April 21, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
If you’ve found that your list won’t validate to W3C standards if you’ve added type=”i” as it’s attribute you’re probably using an “Unordered List” (<ul>). Try making your list an Ordered List (<ol>) and try to validate again. It should pass.
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New Age SEO – Teaching Your Clients To Do Search Marketing
March 22, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
Semantic search, rich snippets, personalized and local search results and social media indicators are definitely what we can expect to see in the future of the search results, with semantic search results and social media playing the biggest part of the game. From my perspective it doesn’t look like SEO is dead but it definitely [...]
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Will Google Be Unveiling Semantic Search Over The Next Few Months?
March 21, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
I have very strong reasons to believe Google will be. From the news we heard this and last week, it looks like conventional SEO may be headed out the door and the semantic web is about to be launched. For over 4 to 5 years, Google and other popular search engines have been talking about [...]
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Stop Over Optimizing Your Websites, Or Else
March 17, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
Well to a lot of ethical SEOs, the announcement by Matt Cutts that Google will be implementing an over-optimization penalty to websites that are trying to rig the system, is indeed good news. Google’s head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, made this announcement in a panel session at SXSW named Dear Google & Bing: Help [...]
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The Semantic Web, Coming To A Google Search Near You
March 17, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
Most SEOs have heard of the semantic web but a lot aren’t too sure what it is or how it affects searches, search results and the bottom line. Well read on because according to The Wall Street Journal over the next few months Google will be displaying answers to searches that are questions like “height [...]
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Google Spills Some Beans On How The Search Results Are Generated
March 12, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
Are you an SEO in Burlington or the GTA and have ever wondered how the search results are generated? Watch this video which is a snippet of one of the weekly meetings Google’s search quality team. In this video they discuss possible new features and algorithmic improvements that can or should be added to their [...]
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Internet Marketing Strategies Related To The Placement Of Important Page Elements
March 7, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
I know discussing the subject of eye-tracking user movements in relation to Internet marketing or SEO is like beating a dead horse but I feel the subject has to be brought up again. I can’t say that everywhere I look there are marketing companies claiming to be Internet marketing experts who are taking their clients [...]
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Some Tidbits To Help Market Your Physical Therapy Practice
January 24, 2012 by Dave Lauretti.
I can’t give you everything, but I can give you some physical therapy marketing secrets – especially if you ask me. For years I’ve been helping different businesses throughout Canada and the U.S.A. get their websites ranked in the search engines, and their content found on the vast array of social media sites like Twitter [...]
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Finding Local Twitter Followers To Follow
November 14, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
We all know the benefit of Twitter by now, especially if it’s used right. When it comes to Internet marketing and social media working, if you have something decent to offer, there’s no shame in finding and following people in your area and letting them hear the news of your product or service – although [...]
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3 Important News Updates In The SEO World
November 4, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
Well, there’s been a few heavy updates in the SEO world this past week. Let’s get to the goods shall we? Google Can Read Ajax and JavaScript Well, I know this means little to the day-to-day business owner but if you talk to your Internet marketer or technical SEO you’ll realize this is a big [...]
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The Right Way To Perform Business Directory Submissions
October 27, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
Let us assume right off the top of this article that business directory submissions are actually an effective SEO strategy for building back-links. I mean, they really are but the task is a menial one that almost doesn’t need to be done even though the results of doing so can be quite surprising. Right Way [...]
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Regional SEO No Problem With Duplicate Content
October 27, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
A lot on the web related to SEO is pure speculation. The Internet Marketing industry has it’s gurus and there are a lot of people that claim to be able to do the work of an SEO and do so successfully. But that’s not the point today. Today we’re just going to speculate and ask [...]
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Google’s New Like Button – The +1 Button
March 31, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
Well it’s finally here! Google’s created a button similar to Facebook’s Like button call the +1 button. But how does it work? It’s simple. As most of us who use Gmail know, we’re a part of a larger social group of friends who have Google accounts as well. Well, if friends in your Social Circle [...]
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Get Your Webmaster To Check For 404s
March 31, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
It doesn’t always happen, but it does sometimes – right after we decide to check the status of our websites in Google’s Webmaster tools, we find crawl errors and more specifically the dreaded 404 Page Not Found errors, and we don’t like it. Search Engines Don’t Like 404 Errors Either If you don’t know why [...]
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WordPress: Allowing Contributor Or Author To Upload Pictures
March 6, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
I just finished writing a post that will give you simple instructions for your WordPress blog on how to hide the media tab from the uploads dialog box on the post page for contributors – good – but we still want our WordPress contributors to be able to upload media such as images correct? Correct! [...]
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WordPress: Remove Media Tab From Authors
March 6, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
Sometime we don’t want to give our WordPress blog contributors access to the media tab because that gives them the ability to manipuate other user’s images and so forth. Well here’s a little fix that helps you block contributors from using the media tab without having to install extra WordPress plugins. Copy the code below [...]
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Your Google Profile Page Is Revamped
March 4, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
If you’re an SEO, web developer or business owner of any kind and have decided to take advantage of Google Buzz and Google profiles in the past you’ll be delighted to know that Google revamped their Google Profile pages – and almost a lot like Facebook. Read below. For those unaware, as it stands Facebook [...]
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How Citations May Be Used From Google Book Search
March 1, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
Citations may be mentions of a business’s name and address in text on webpages or in social media status updates. (I’ve theorized that citation analysis may go even further, including mentions of the address by itself as well as mentions of the business’s phone number and business name could also be counted as citations, too, [...]
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Google’s Personal Blocklist Will Not Hurt Your Rankings
February 20, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
A lot of people practicing SEO in Canada are making a huff about Google’s Personal Blocklist plugin – making claims that evil competitors can destroy business owner’s rankings in the search engines which is a completely uninformed claim. Click here to get to the bottom line and dispel the myth that competitors can ruin our [...]
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Validating Aria-Required
February 20, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
Straight to the point. Currently WAI-ARIA (ariahtml) is an addon to XHTML, not fully supported, in draft and waiting to become a recommendation. My current advice would be to leave it in your code as it assists handicapped users who are working with dynamic applications and will probably become a standard in less than a [...]
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Dynamic Year Copyright Date For PHP
February 19, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
This post is mainly for me. I don’t memorize much PHP code so from time to time I have to search the net. In this case I’m going to post the code needed for a dymanic year – meaning the year changes automatically as each year passes – this is mainly, in my case for [...]
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Missing Set Featured Image
February 18, 2011 by Dave Lauretti.
Sometimes our WordPress themes aren’t all we expect them to be and if you’ve found (or didn’t find) that the Set Featured Image sidebar is missing from the Post page here is the fix. Open functions.php and add the following code: add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); Now open index.php in the theme folder and add the following [...]
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There Are No SEO Secrets
December 7, 2010 by Dave Lauretti.
Many people, from Burlington, to the GTA, from Ontario and across the world, search out secrets to SEO – they want to be big SEO stars,get websites ranked and be praised for their work. Well as I’ve told a few people, SEO is no secret – there are no secrets to SEO but there are [...]
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Burlington SEO Service Providers Bracing For Change
December 2, 2010 by Dave Lauretti.
Over a year ago I introduced to the owners of a few companies that offer SEO services in Burlington and the Halton area the idea of using social media – not to help in your SEO efforts, but as a lucrative way of raising brand awareness and connection with customers – you know the usual. [...]
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Google Is Pouncing On Certain SEO Service Companies
June 2, 2010 by Dave Lauretti.
While working SEO services in Hamilton over the past year I discovered a lot of hype going around the Internet related to the dismay companies are experiencing with SEO firms that aren’t listening to Webmaster Guidelines. It now seems that with the roll-out of Caffeine combined with the lack of knowledge of local SEOs, Burlington, [...]
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Great Tips From Google To Speed Up Your Websites
April 12, 2010 by Dave Lauretti.
Toronto & Burlington SEOs are now happy to be able to announce that website speed is a new ranking factor in Google’s algorithm. Thankfully Google has provided some hints under site speed in the Labs section of Webmaster Tools and a whole page which provides site performance suggestions related to using page speed. I will [...]
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Website Speed Is A Ranking Factor According To Google
April 9, 2010 by Dave Lauretti.
Many have argued that speed would never become a ranking factor and many hoped it wouldn’t but today Google announced once and for all the speed is a ranking factor and why it is so. Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy [...]
