Austin Web Design & Internet Marketing Blog

When we build a new website for our home builder clients, we always try to focus on implementing "best practices search engine optimization (SEO)" to maximize their placement in organic search engine results.

We had a problem with our DMOZ listing, it was years old, outdated, and we couldn't get DMOZ to change it.  Here's a quick tip on how to override it on Google and Yahoo...

Courtney Mills has just published an important new article on the recent Google algorithm update and what it means to webmasters and companies with sites on the internet.  A link to the article can be found here.

The advantages of Clean URLs and URL rewriting from an SEO perspective are topics we are incorporating as a standard part in the process of planning, designing and programming customer websites.  Pallasart has created our own custom PHP rewrite engine for the web and are implementing in all of the sites we create with great success.  The most significant advantages are; one, static URL’s rank better in Search Engines; two, Search Engines crawl the content of the static URLs much faster as compared to the dynamic URL and three, static URLs look much prettier and friendlier to the end-user....

A few days ago I received an email from a group I subscribe to called  "Web Pro News".  They provide great information on what's happening in the SEO world and what impact various changes have for web design companies and website mangers who are concerned about search engine placement (isn't this everyone?)....