SEO strategies, local search tips, and digital marketing guides from the SEO Bandwagon team.
John Wooden was a legendary basketball coach. His NCAA record for championships is possibly the loftiest in athletics and will never be broken. Most college basketball coaches aren t fortunate enough to win one championship, let alone TEN. Wooden has nine consecutive championships plus another one a year later. Plus an undefeated season, no one has [ ]
Every n00b knows that you need to be on Facebook if you want to reach potential customers on the Internet. Facebook is the most trafficked website in terms of real-time spent by users and Likes are the digital currency that will help drive traffic to your Fan Page and website and straight to Step 3. [ ]
This is a major pet peeve of mine. Not the rule, but the client who refuses to get it. Content is what makes your site work. It s what people (and search engines) read and look at on your site. Even these WordPress themes don t look right unless there is something there. The best analogy I ve [ ]
The easier question is, why is this so slow? But asking a question in a positive is worth evaluating on it s own. The folks over at Visually did a nice infographic on page loading speeds and what makes a page loader faster than others. Compress images, javascript, and CSS, minimize http requests, and running up-to-date [ ]
Domain name service (DNS) takes domain names and converts it to the server s numeric IP address.
Dom Hodgson wrote a fantastic piece about some of the shady SEO practices that have lead many to declare SEO is dead or start calling themselves Inbound Marketers, Data Analysts or Internet Marketing Specialists. I don’t use that term lightly, it’s reserved for a special kind of person that puts peoples livleyhoods at risk. There [ ]
Self-hosted WordPress.org install is way better than Blogger. There is no contest between the two sets of features. You can even listen to Matt Cutts just to be sure. He didn t answer is WordPress.com is better than Blogger, probably closer to a toss up, but Blogger does have some pretty intriguing looking options for monetizing your content [ ]
In case you hadn t heard, there is a mini-battle brewing between WordPress Foundation Envato, marketplace for designers and coders, over GPL Licenses for WordPress derivative products. Jake Caputo is a designer who is caught in the middle of this GPL battle between two of the largest entities in the WordPress community and who can and cannot present [ ]
If you can t measure it, you can t improve it. The above quote is often attributed to Lord Kelvin or W. Edwards Deming. For our purposes, the attribution doesn t matter as much as the sentiment behind it. It doesn t matter if you are looking to improve your website, your car, your home, or whatever, without data there [ ]
Yes this does totally matter. Subdomains usually get treated as distinct websites by Google. Google Webmaster Tools are setup for this, Google Analytics also needs an extra step to track across subdomains, you get the idea. Matt Cutts is pretty clear that this shouldn t be a decision that you labor over and it, whichever is [ ]
There are few companies that get the varied reactions that GoDaddy does when you mention their name. Most internet newbs probably think about the GoDaddy girls such as Joan Rivers Danica Patrick and get somewhat excited thinking about Internet riches and scantily clad females. If you have had to try and get GoDaddy to [ ]
