SEO Basics – post #2: Choosing the Right Key Words

When you need to develop key words to use on your web site, start by making a list of the words you think prospective customers may use to do an Internet search. Capitalization is not critical. Just make a list of the words you'd enter into a Google search to find a company or product like yours. Think of any features that make your product or service unique as that could be helpful. For instance, if you primarily do business in Houston, you might consider adding that city name to your keywords (also spelled "key words" with the space [...]

By |2019-05-28T17:13:43-05:00June 20th, 2012|Categories: SEO, Web Design|Tags: , |Comments Off on SEO Basics – post #2: Choosing the Right Key Words

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Basics – post 1

There's a lot of talk about search engine optimization (SEO) for websites so I thought I'd share some tips that any business or individual could use. When Tell Your Tale launches a web site for a business, we make sure to address these items and many more. Since there's a lot to cover, I'll share these SEO tips in a series of blog posts so check back often and look at some of the websites that Tell Your Tale has created. One of the first things to consider is which tools people use for Internet search. The latest research [...]

By |2019-05-28T17:13:31-05:00June 20th, 2012|Categories: SEO, Web Design|Tags: , |Comments Off on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Basics – post 1

How to Improve Your Web Site’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

How to Boost Your SEO with Key Words and Page Titles If  you've been following the Tell Your Tale blog, you now know how to select your keywords for your web site. Now let's focus on where to implement the key words on your web site because not only should the keywords be in the copy that's visible on your web site, but also in the code that's hidden behind the scenes. Let's start with page titles. Page titles are one of the most important pieces of search engine optimization (SEO) and are often overlooked. Your page titles show [...]

By |2019-05-28T17:13:15-05:00August 20th, 2012|Categories: SEO, Web Design|Tags: , |Comments Off on How to Improve Your Web Site’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Why Website Speed Matters

The rapid growth of access to high speed devices connected to high speed networks has resulted in people being able to consume a large amount of information from a wide variety of sources in a very short time period. This happens every day and every day it seems to happen faster and on a larger scale.  It’s become more important than ever to respect your customers time and provide the least path of resistance wherever possible. In this article we’re going to identify some barriers to a successful website and how to tackle those barriers. We expect speed A website [...]

By |2019-05-28T17:12:18-05:00September 15th, 2017|Categories: SEO, Web Design, Website Maintenance|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Why Website Speed Matters

Search Engines Provide Aggregated Results

It’s March 12, 2019 and the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web. Ten years later, Google was founded. Search engines have become an integral part of our daily lives by helping us find answers to nearly any question we can think of. We even have fun with search engines by asking Alexa “what’s your favorite color?” or “are you a spy?” Search engines are continuously evolving in the feature sets they offer, but their purpose of helping searchers find key information has not changed. A feature recently introduced that’s becoming more prevalent at an exponential pace is aggregated [...]

By |2019-05-28T17:08:27-05:00March 12th, 2019|Categories: SEO, Web Design|Comments Off on Search Engines Provide Aggregated Results
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