No Geek Websites » Blog http://www.nogeekwebsites.com Tips for Updating and Managing Your Website Yourself Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:19:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Quick SEO Tips http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/quick-seo-tips.html http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/quick-seo-tips.html#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:10:03 +0000 admin http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/quick-seo-tips.html SEO Tips for Your Website
I found an article today about how to do some quick SEO tasks on your website. I’ve read them and they’re pretty good… if you know about SEO and websites, that is. Go ahead and read them and then come back here:

8 SEO Tips That Take 15 Minutes or Less (http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2144010/8-SEO-Tips-That-Take-15-Minutes-or-Less) (searchenginewatch.com)

Ok. How were they? Did you do them? Did they make sense?
If so, then great. You’ve just made a few adjustments to your website and you should be seeing some improved rankings in maybe a week or so. It’s good to do website maintenance (website-maintenance.html) and tune your website.
For those of you who read that and are completely lost, don’t sweat it. Most of our…

]]> http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/quick-seo-tips.html/feed 0 Get Local Search Traffic and Score! http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/get-local-search-traffic-and-score.html http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/get-local-search-traffic-and-score.html#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:10:03 +0000 admin http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/get-local-search-traffic-and-score.html The trend in the last few years has been local search – it’s so obvious.
Google, in particular, has done a lot to enhance local search and you can tell it has been on their minds for years. There’s Google Places (http://www.google.com/places/) which really helps with local search and since last year (2011), Google has been giving you results based on where you search from. This only makes sense since the market is flooded with mobile devices like smart phones and tablets (iPads). Service over cellular networks has greatly improved as well (yes, even with AT T). People are mobile and have learned that they can search for things around where they currently are and get good results.
The begs the question……

]]> http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/get-local-search-traffic-and-score.html/feed 0 A Problem With SSL Websites Hosted with GoDaddy http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/a-problem-with-ssl-websites-hosted-with-godaddy.html http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/a-problem-with-ssl-websites-hosted-with-godaddy.html#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:10:04 +0000 admin http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/a-problem-with-ssl-websites-hosted-with-godaddy.html We had to deal with a website being transferred to us from GoDaddy the other day and we thought we’d share the pretty big snag we ran into in an effort to warn others about this.
What happened was we were moving a website of one of our clients to our own hosting. They felt that we gave better, more personal support and wanted us in control of it. They had purchased their SSL certificate at GoDaddy and wanted to keep using it. That was fine, it can be re-keyed. In doing this, GoDaddy gave a warning to the effect that the SSL would be removed from the website within 72 hours – or, at least, that’s how it read to…

]]> http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/a-problem-with-ssl-websites-hosted-with-godaddy.html/feed 0 You Have Website Traffic But No Sales? http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/you-have-website-traffic-but-no-sales.html http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/you-have-website-traffic-but-no-sales.html#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:10:13 +0000 admin http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/you-have-website-traffic-but-no-sales.html We often blog about SEO here and about how to get traffic to your website. That’s often a big hurdle to jump over. But what about if there is traffic but no sales?
You might start to wonder what’s going on when you look at your website statistics and wonder why you see traffic but the phone isn’t ringing or you’re not getting any sales on your website. There is a wide variety of things that could be going on. I’ll try to cover some of them here.
Website Design
Content is definitely king, right? People are generally searching for something when they are on the web. They start at Google and want to find a result. Quality content that answers their questions…

]]> http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/you-have-website-traffic-but-no-sales.html/feed 0 On-Site SEO That Your Website Might Be Missing Out On http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/on-site-seo-that-your-website-might-be-missing-out-on.html http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/on-site-seo-that-your-website-might-be-missing-out-on.html#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:10:07 +0000 admin http://www.nogeekwebsites.com/on-site-seo-that-your-website-might-be-missing-out-on.html Greetings!
I found an article online today about some on-site SEO features that your website might be lacking. He gets a little technical in it but it’s worth reading so that you understand some of the finer points about SEO (search engine optimization) and all the goes into it. Since the SEO world keeps evolving, your current web developer might not be up on all the latest techniques but hopefully they have the basics covered for you.
The article goes over these seven things:

Analytics (Google or Otherwise)
Semantic URLs
XML Sitemaps
Controlling Indexation
301 Redirects
Canonicalization (I love this word… my spell checker thinks it should be “cannibalization”)
Site Speed

Like I said, a bit technical but if you are going to hire someone to work on your website,…

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