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Your home page is the first impression you get to make to your prospective customers.  So, whether you already have a website or you’re just building one, take a moment to decide.  What impression do you want to make?  What impression are you already making?  Your home page needs certain things to make a good impression. •    It should be visual; people like to see photos, cartoons, flash photos, even videos.  But make sure the pictures have small files.  Large files take time to load.  And slow loading pages don’t get traffic.  People don’t want to be on a site that’s inconvenient to view. •    It should be tempting enough to make your visitor want to go to the other pages on your site. •    It should have information for your visitor, summarizing if necessary your products...

Last month we went over a bit more about SEO Keywords and their importance.  We showed you within your DNN website, where it was important that these keywords appear.  This month, we will recap that, and go into more detail on “key phrases”.  We will also show you some other areas within your site and page that important to Google and its ability to properly crawl your site. First “key phrases”.   You’ve learned a bit about keywords.  For example, suppose you are a plumber and you are trying to attract attention to your site.  You want to use the keywords that a prospective customer might type into the Google search engine bar.  Theorize that if you were looking for a plumber, you would type in: plumber….  If that was all you typed in you would get over 12 million results.  But think about when are searching for something,...

June 2010 Newsletter SEO Part 2  In our last newsletter we gave you some ideas to start on the SEO road.  We showed you some things about Keywords, and how to make the most of them in your Pintail / Dot Net Nuke website. This month we will follow up on some things about keywords and let you know about some things that we have been up to in the SEO world. First let’s go over keywords and key phrases.  We gave you some information about how to enter key words and phrases into the page and site setting on your website, but we may not have been clear in pointing out that these words and phrases need to be in at least two different places. They need to be in the keyword space (shown below) on the page settings, the site settings,...

Pintail Consulting will periodically send out newsletters to help you improve your websites in many ways! Recently, we have been searching through each of our customer’s websites. We are noticing that some of you are not getting the hits that you deserve. We have suggestions for you!

Let’s start with a very simple but extremely important issue: Keywords.

Keywords are the words that people are typing into a search engine to find your website. So, let’s say, your website is web design. You’ll want anyone who types “web design” in any search engine to bring up your website.  The way you get clients and customers to see and click on your website is through those Keywords.  Example keyword or key phrase: Web Design

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