Spidey Glasses to See Your Site With

Now you can put on spidey glasses and see just what the search engine spiders see when they look at your web page with this online tool.

This tool is valuable as you will be able to see if the code you have in a show-hide layer is visible, if you have the spacing set up properly in your navigation, and what a spider sees right when they hit your page. If you did not think that keyword density was important, you will after you review your results.

All a spider sees is text! Now here's the test, what does the spider see on a Flash site? Nothing! Enter in http://www.katybar.com in the tool. Then visit the site, you will see that all the spider has indexed is the text that has been added below the Flash image.

New Press Release Services

We've just rolled out a new service for press release writing and distribution. You can click our post title to go to our page and check out pricing and distribution services.

Press releases are a great way to share your news with other websites and blogs as well as get quality inbound links to your website as a way to improve your organic search placement.

Press releases are not marketing brochures! They do need to be well-written, objective, and present your breaking news in a winning way. Writing is just one part. After your press release is written, you have to get it out to the people who will actually help you disseminate it on the Web. We have found two excellent options. The option using PRWeb provides more exposure, but is more expensive than the second value priced option using 24-7 Press Releases.

With our quality writers, your press release is bound to be noticed and get the important #4 score editorial rating for wider exposure. Visit our press release page for more information on this new service.

Social Media Blogging Does It Work?

You decide for yourself if you like social media blogging but my candid opinion is that it is bunk.

The majority of clients use blogging for search engine placement and we understand their needs. Here is a prime example:

Here is a post from Rocky Mountain Tracking before we started blogging: http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/teens-and-parents/vivien/ Take a careful look at the blog post. It has absolutely nothing to do with the products the client was selling. He sells GPS tracking hardware to fleets and individuals.

Here is a post from Rocky Mountain Tracking that is written by one of our top writers: http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/news/rmt-customers-unaffected-by-switch-to-digital/ The post is on topic keyword dense and would be interesting reading for website visitors therefore increasing the site's stickiness and the site's number of blog subscribers.

I don't know who it is who coined social media blogging and who the nuts are who are selling this to clients, but as a professional blogger I think that social media blogging is bunk.

Blog readers want to read posts that are on message. They want to read posts that dovetail nicely with the content on the parent site or they would be reading things on MySpace, Facebook, or Yahoo Groups.

And what about search engines? What do you think they think about the fluff that had passed for social media posts on the Rocky Mountain Tracking blog? Well the old posts certainly did not add authority to the site from my point of view. The search engine firm that is helping Rocky Mountain Tracking is delighted with our "on message" content and so is the client!

The New World of Linking

Nancy's post for Monday is found at Web-World Watch and is on the topic of new linking strategies.

Spin Off Websites Do They Work?

Nancy's post for today is found at Design-World Watch: http://www.mccordwebdesign.com/blog/?p=22.

The topic is do spin off website work for organic search placement.

Check Out Our New Sister Website

I am doing an SEO test on a few new techniques. As a result I have spun off a new sister website at http://www.mccordwebdesign.com with in-depth content only on custom web design and our fast web design program called Quick Launch.

I am evaluating a few new SEO techniques as well as getting ready to start a new blog Design-World Watch. This new blog will use Word Press as my platform instead of my typical Blogger platform. This will also allow me to very carefully evaluate the two platforms for ease of use, ability of customization, and organic search engine performance.

I'll keep you posted as I roll out the new blog and get historical data on our new whitepaper in planning.