SEO Web Design Blog: Search engine optimization, web design, and webmaster tips

I had some time today to configure my Twitter Split web page, and WOW! Is this a great way to add related news & advertise your company or what?

After downloading the app from Twitter Split (they email it to you), you need to add header content  to the twittersplit-top.html file, possibly do some CSS styling, add the title you want shown at Twitter, and upload it along with the twittersplit.html file (need a title on that file, too).

Then you just point the rest of the content to a news worthy page that you want to show your Twitter followers. This is done by placing “Your-twittersplit.html  A-Question-Mark  Any-External-link” in for your link at Twitter. Here’s an example, followed by an actual sample:

If you want one of these coded for your usage, I can do this for only $49.50.
Just use my contact form on the sidebar ? ?

Here’s some examples I’m using (links open in a new window/tab) ?

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Is the Search Industry Now Turning from Google to Facebook and Twitter?

So what’s happening in the world of search, and what will happen next? Is Google perplexed because of the recent high search statistics presented by Facebook and Twitter? Is this the key to why Google purchased Aardvark and formed Google Buzz? Can Google Buzz compete with Facebook and Twitter? Is Google even trying to compete, or are they coordinating these efforts with Google Facebook and Twitter?

Google’s New Rivals: Facebook and Twitter …

I believe that there’s gonna be a big low-down coming soon, as Google now has competition from a totally different sector, the social domains. Who would have guessed that a niche industry would bear arms against the giant, Google? Even search marketing companies are shifting gears, using social media websites, as getting their clients on Google page one has become close to impossible. Search terms are becoming more and more saturated with little or no new long-tailed keywords being employed. Why try for Google SERP’s when social search can prove better results with less effort?

I have tried to seek out the low-down on this, but it seems like nobody has anything to say about this yet – save SFGate: Facebook directs more online users than Google. But just you wait and see – we will soon be experiencing a new form of search engine battle. Spoils to the victor, may the best man win.

• Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with new Buzz
• Google Buzz launched in bid to topple Facebook and Twitter
• Social media is changing small business world
  
• Google Buzz Has Completely Changed the Game: Here’s How

But then again, maybe the strategy will play off – guess we need to wait and see.
What are your thoughts?

UPDATE: DO NOT buy this program; it has security flaws!

Have you heard about the new Wordpress Plugin that Ken Reno and Richard Wing have just released?

It’s called Commissions Automator, and it makes automated posts to your Wordpress blog (you choose frequency), and your Twitter account, that contains YOUR affiliate ID, so you earn instant commissions, directly to your PayPal account.

The shocker is that instead of $67.00, they are letting BETA users get access right now for less than $5.00! I know – get it now – I did!

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Learn how to generate massive sales, NOT by pulling in new prospects, but by keeping your loyal customers happy.

Have you ever purchased a product and somehow felt that it would be the last time you bought something from that place?

Did you somehow feel neglected by the salesman and once you made a purchase, they didn’t want to have anything to do with you?

Unfortunately, many customers out there feel the same. They get the idea that all the business does is grab their hard earned pay and ask them to scoot after that…

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Now how ?handy is this?

This morning while I couldn’t sleep, I designed a new type of business card. This is a special business card, shaped like door hangers that you can use to display at grocery stores and such … for any place that has a message board. Just grab a few of those extended thumb tacks and you can hang several of these in one card space.

You want some too?      Contact me!

NOTE: Actual design will extend closer to the edge, as cut lines were allowed for – this is just a representation.

Being that I now have a lot of clients who use the WordPress platform for their websites, I felt compelled to write up a small tutorial on how to use the WordPress administration panels.

Starting with the dashboard – what you immediately see when you login to your “back office,” you will have several modules that can be rearranged and hidden (use the Screen Options tab, top right). On the left side is your navigation that can also be temporarily hidden by clicking on the small arrow.

The Posts tab is where you will be adding and modifying the active type of pages that will occur chronologically. This is also referred to as the blog pages. You can also modify your Tags and Categories here. If you are concerned about getting your posts to show up at Google, you’ll want to use tags. Read more: What Are WordPress Tags and Why Use Them? Categories are just that – a method for organizing your post topics.

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Previously posted here, “Will Google Caffeine Affect Your SEO?” – I tried to explain the changes that Google has brought about with the implementation of Google Caffeine, a new and advanced search engine algorithm. And I had mentioned that load speed will be a factor determining search position.

Come to find out, what I posted here has a lot of truth, but not as much as I found today after finding this article at Web Pro News. Granted, page load speed is now important, but doesn’t hold priority to relevant, up-to-date content. Page load speed, now an algorithm factor, is only only one in over 200 factors that determines search page position. So in the event that load speed makes a determining factor (not likely unless your site is REAL slow), chances are that the effected website will move by only one position.

Below is a very informative video from Matt Cutts that will explain this more thoroughly.

On a scale of 1 to 200, where would you place the importance
of page speed? Comment, read, and  discuss here!

Could be good, could be bad … depends on what you do with it.

But I know for certain, that if you restrict Google to display ONLY the meta description that you provide, this could be detrimental. This video also describes in brief the new personalized search from Google, and what it does for search engine results pages.

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