Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Hawaii
I just returned from a week in Hawaii. I’d never been before, but now I definitely want to go back! Emma, her parents, her brother, his girlfriend, and I traveled to Honolulu via Salt Lake City. We stayed in a house on the ocean on the North Shore of Oahu. The view was amazing all…
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ATG SEO – Tools and Traffic
SEO Tools Other than using lynx to test your site, there are several other tools I would recommend utilizing in your quest for better SEO. One great tool is the SEO Analysis Tool from SEOWorkers.com. This tool quickly analyzes the page, and provides excellent reports on the size and relevancy of your meta tags. It…
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ATG SEO – URL Formats and Crawler Limits
URL Formats and Structures By making your URLs expressive and relevant to the content and structure of the site, you help not only your search engine ranking but also your users, since they can easily tell what a given link will take them to. This is a bad URL: [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top”…
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ATG SEO – Accessibility and GoogleBot
Semantic Tags Use the right tags for the job. For high importance headings use <h1>, for lists use <li>, and so on. Don’t JUST use CSS classes for styling, make sure you’re also using the appropriate HTML markup for your content. By using semantic markup you can identify the importance and structure of the content…
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ATG SEO – Search Engine Optimization
No matter how good your website or web application is, if people can’t find it, then it doesn’t do anyone any good. The Secret to SEO So how do you game Google? How do you trick search engines to put you at the top? You don’t. The “secret” to search engines is that they are…
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A Clean Fridge
I’m on Day Four of Using Time Blocks to Get Things Done and make headway on some of the never-ending things that need doing that can lurk on in the shadows of your mind. So far it’s going pretty well. I had a couple of weak days: on Tuesday night Emma was out, so I…
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