Get control over your custom taxonomy’s Title Tag With Yoast’s Simple Taxonomies plugin, you can set up a custom categorization system for posts on your site known as a custom taxonomy. When trying to optimize these pages, I realized that the All in One SEO Pack plugin doesn’t have support for custom taxonomies, so it […]
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A comparison in travel sites search results page titles Wow, Priceline…who did you hire for SEO? I was shopping around for a good price on a hotel in Aspen when William Shatner’s “Falcoln of Truth” showed me how not to write page titles. Check out Priceline‘s horrific search results page title: Priceline.com – hotel, hotel […]
I launched this blog in January 2008 – only 19 months ago. Since then, the blog has seen 100,000 visitors. I look forward to creating more posts that you find interesting. Last year at this time: The blog was averaging 18 readers per day. Now it averages 357. The blog had 14,677 visitors. This month, […]
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The SEO Denver Blog is Now Self-Hosted
After a year of hosting the SEODenver.com website on WordPress.com servers, it’s time to finally move on. WordPress hosting was a good way to get the SEO Denver Blog up quicky and without much forethought…but WordPress.com hosting was always temporary, and finally, the site has moved!
Redirecting a website in ColdFusion (.CFM) I have been working on a ColdFusion website, and I wanted to find a way to require ‘www.’ in the URL (to consolidate all pages on www. for SEO). I normally work with PHP and Apache servers, so I’m used to .htaccess. I knew there had to be a […]
Mountain America Jerky Redesign I’m happy to announce that today the new Mountain America Jerky website launched. Check out the site and try some of their crazy-good Garlic Black Pepper Beef Jerky. One perk of working with a nice client who sells beef jerky is getting samples of the product! Seriously, though, it’s the best […]
As seen on 7News – View the video on TheDenverChannel.com Why Google Profiles matter to you Receive monthly tips like this one on how to get online exposure Receive monthly emailed tips As featured on the May 20th 7News program featuring Zack Katz of Katz Web Design, Google Profiles are a great way to be […]
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Optimize your logo using SEO-friendly techniques. Google’s algorithm likes text more than images. It likes headlines more than paragraphs. You can increase how much weight your headline has by only having one or two of them. Having the same headline across all pages reduces the value of it each time. Instead of having your logo […]
4 Steps to optimize a website — a Denver solar case study This is an inside look into my process for optimizing a pre-existing website. This will cover lots of the aspects of the SEO I’ve done, but not all of it…These steps are often my first round of optimization on a site. Once I do these four vital […]
Can a Denver business afford to rank poorly in search engines? Katz Web Design is an SEO company in Denver. This is our blog. Need help with your website’s search presence? Call 970-882-1477 for a free consultation. Denver SEO Case study: Ignite Matchmaking
Format your search results for SEO Works great for SEO searches on the iPhone! It’s frustrating doing searches with SEO in mind, then having Google add SearchWiki, personalized results, and other localizations that mess up what you wanted: accurate results. Here’s the solution: The SEO It! Bookmarklet. I do lots of searching as an SEO. […]
Will a website redesign hurt my rank? When I am working with a client that already has a website, one of the first questions I am asked is “How will redesigning my website affect my rank?” Here’s what to expect when launching your new website: Your website will take a hit in the SERPs for 20-30 […]
I’ve taken the plunge: the katzwebdesign.wordpress.com site is now mapped to seodenver.com, a domain I purchased last year. I’m not sure what the long-term plans are for this domain, but at least I’ll be building links to my own domain, not to WordPress.com…
Katz Web Design has completed a website for Mountain High Roofing, Inc., a Denver roofing company. The Mountain High Roofing website is built on WordPress. It’s what I would consider to be a medium level of customization; the website is a custom website design with a few plugin customization options. It allows Mountain High to […]
SEO and continuing education It’s easy to know SEO concepts. It’s another thing to put them into good use and do the work involved in optimizing a site. Yesterday, I was at a barnes and noble and saw the book SEO Bible. I flipped through the pages and I knew everything I saw. But if […]
Google’s OneBox results getting smarter Recently, Google seems to have updated their algorithm for when they show the mapped results (or, “OneBox”). It used to be that the OneBox would show up when viewing 10 results at a time for many most local searches. Now, the OneBox only shows up when viewing locally relevant industries or […]
Update: Now use the SEO WordSpinner plugin to implement this concept.Use the get_seo_spin() PHP function in your theme’s footer.php file. Footer links are dropping in SEO value How to stay relevant while getting great links As a web designer and SEO, I place links in the footers of most of my designs. Clients don’t mind […]
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My SEO Statistics are 42% Better than Yours
In working on the content for my new web site, I was working on ways to display the SEO ranking statistics. I came up with this concept of scaling the text relative to the % of clicks they get. The SEO statistics in this way are pretty dramatic: The #1 Result: receives 42% of all […]
While working on a recent website, I became frustrated by the lack of nofollow support in many WordPress functions. Make that, most WordPress functions. There are a few WP functions that I wanted to add nofollow to, so here’s a list and a download link:
Firefox gets all the cool toys As I’ve written before, Firefox SEO — not Safari — gets all the glory. One of the great things about Firefox is the Add-ons (plugins) that extend its functionality. For web developers and SEOs, it’s vital to easily see what rank your website has when doing searches. There are tons […]
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