Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, involves the enhancement of the structure of a web site to serve content in a way that is favorable to placing highly on the results pages of a search engine query. Users typically type “keywords” into a search engine to find information, and SEO involves placing keywords in the meta-tags, description, URLs, and sections of a web site that they can be browsed, indexed, and ultimately found more easily by a user using a search engine to navigate. Our web designers and developers at WebDevNews and Attackr regularly post information and articles on SEO ﾓbest practicesﾔ along with reviews of software that helps SEO specialists get the job done. We invite anyone involved with professional SEO work to post their articles, reviews, and tutorials to a blog on the sites to benefit the community of developers online.

With the recent Google data center updates in the last couple of months, many people find their websites no longer have the high SERPs they had enjoyed prior to the latest Google update.
Just a small heads up, as I type this, Google is in the process of yet another major update.
Holy Search Engine Optimization some [...]

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My fellow readers, to be honest, I haven’t paid much attention to my Alexa rank, but some recent posts around the interweb have prompted me to start thinking about it.
For those who don’t know, your website’s Alexa rank affects the amount of money that advertisers will pay to be shown on your site. The [...]

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The worst mistake I’ve made with my blog (forgedeuphoria.com/blog) was not choosing a more appropriate domain name, which can be attributed to my attitude to simply rush in and do things without thinking them through.
These should be the steps taken when making a decision into which domain to buy:

Select a niche or core topic for [...]

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You are about to launch your website. Your designer has created a great design for your site or you decided to use a free XHTML template and customized it to your liking. You think you are ready to start making money from your site. If only it was that simple.
So what do you need to [...]

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Most of us probably feel that our SEO skills are pretty decent, but there is always room for improvement.
In a recent article, Chris Pearson gives us the Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs, where he writes:
You’d think that as a result of open-source development practices, blog architectures would be pretty close [...]

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The <title> tag can be one of the most important when it comes to search engine optimization. It can easily mean the difference between several page ranks on most search engines.
The key thing to understand is that the keywords appearing earlier in the <title> tag are the ones that carry the most weight. [...]

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