Author Archives: Martin Przybyla
Using CSS to Create an SEO Friendly HTML Layout
In a previous post I examined how to put together an HTML / XHTML template that is optimized for the best possible Search Engine rankings. This entailed creating a logical HTML structure that puts the important content first, minimizing the <head> length, externalizing CSS and Javascript to speed up loading times, and generally using [...]
Posted in CSS, HTML/XHTML, SEO 1 Comments
Flash and SEO: How are Flash Sites Indexed by Google?
Why doesn’t my site show up in Google? If I had a nickle for every time I heard that question. A typical answer a couple of years ago would have been “well, of course it doesn’t show up, you built it in Flash!” But then Google started indexing Flash, and has since continued to improve [...]
Posted in Flash/Actionscript, SEO 0 Comments
Choosing the Right Open Source PHP CMS for the Job
Choosing the best CMS (Content Management System) for a website or web based project can be a daunting task. Take a look at OpenSourceCMS.com and you can see that currently there are over 200+ CMS demos you can try out in the PHP category alone. Faced with this many options, and having to make a [...]
Building Optimized, SEO Friendly XHTML Templates
Depending on which sector your business is in, or what topics your site or blog deals with, your SEO strategy (or lack of one) could be what determines whether your site receives traffic or not, and therefore whether or not it is successful. I hear a lot about the title tag, meta keywords, meta descriptions, internal and external linking, and body copy optimization. But if you are in a highly competitive market, most top-20 sites probably already have these elements optimized. So how could you gain further advantage over your competitors?
Posted in HTML/XHTML, SEO, Web Development 7 Comments
Use PHP and Javascript to Import and Display Google Analytics Data