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A client recently had a third party vendor upgrade a portion of their website with a custom database. As a result, many of the site's URLs were changed. However, after launch, the old URLs were still appearing in their Google site search (Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)) and none of the new pages were appearing. […]
Developed a module for my website that will display a set of links to related posts based on the search terms the visitor used to find my site. It works with Google, Bing, and Yahoo. The module relies upon a PHP-based URL referral script, some URL parsing, and dynamic MySQL queries. My script is available […]
I recently presented a client with a set of strategies that could be used to garner links from other websites. “Inbound links” (high quality inbound links, that is) are a key ingredient in improving a site’s results on the major search engines. My analysis showed that the client had a lot of low hanging fruit […]
Troubleshot and resolved an issue where pages and files from the old version of a client’s website were still appearing in Google’s search results. Reviewed the XML sitemap, data in Google Webmaster Tools, robots.txt, and 301 redirects.
Provided a brief tutorial to a client to answer their question “how can I get my website to come up first on Google?” Covered the basics of “importance” (inbound links and page rank) and “relevance” (keywords in page titles, headers, and content), plus the intersection of these two factors in driving SEO.
Launched the Westmoreland’s new website: www.westmorelandcoop.com. I enjoyed coming up with a design that reflects the apartment building’s character and history in Washington DC.
Updated NDTAC’s Fast Facts (a web portal that I originally designed and developed several years ago) with new data collected by the federal government. See http://www.neglected-delinquent.org/nd/data/fastfacts_SP1.asp.