Development and Technical SEO

The posts here sit where web development and search overlap: canonical references versus 301 redirects, how URLs and page titles are constructed, what slow loading widgets cost you, and a run of practical WordPress maintenance notes. Several are short video answers I recorded because clients kept asking the same question twice. Screenshots and tool names have aged, but the underlying mechanics of crawling, duplication and page speed have held up better than most people expect.

Why Your SEO Fixes Never Ship

Why Your SEO Fixes Never Ship

You paid for the audit, nobody argued with a single finding, and a year later not one item has shipped. Here is the sorting pass and the rewrite that gets an audit into production.
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One Page Measurement Plan for GA4

One Page Measurement Plan for GA4

The one page plan that comes before any tagging, the outcomes worth counting, and the rule that keeps a GA4 property honest.
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CRM vs Analytics on Lead Source

CRM vs Analytics on Lead Source

Sales says referrals, analytics says organic search, and both are right...here is the method that settles it.
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Is Your Site Ready for AI Answers?

Is Your Site Ready for AI Answers?

A monitoring tool is rarely the first move...the week of unglamorous work on your own site is what earns you a place in AI answers.
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Redesign Your Site Without Losing Traffic

Redesign Your Site Without Losing Traffic

Rankings attach to specific URLs, so build the redirect map from a real crawl, check template parity, and verify the tracking before the new site goes live.
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Twin Cities Local SEO From One Office

Twin Cities Local SEO From One Office

A page for every suburb is the standard advice, and here is how to decide which Twin Cities communities actually earn one.
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Who Owns Your Domain and Analytics?

Who Owns Your Domain and Analytics?

Most owners learn who really controls the domain, the analytics and the business listing only when they try to leave the vendor holding them.
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Mobile App or Mobile Site?

Mobile App or Mobile Site?

Most businesses asking for an app describe a problem a better mobile site solves...three questions separate the real app projects from the rest.
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Mac Mail Logo

Add Signature to Mac Mail

ADD SIGNATURE TO MAC MAIL To add a signature to Mac Mail, you must follow the steps below.  Please note:…
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Rich Snippets Author SEO

Rich Snippets and SERP Rankings [Video]

Will Schema.org Markup Improve SERP Rankings?
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Page Load Speed SEO

Slow Loading Widgets Bad for SEO? [Video]

How do widgets like the Facebook Like box affect your SEO and Search Engine Rankings when they seem to be…
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Canonical or 301 Redirects SEO

Is a Canonical Reference or a 301 Redirect better for SEO? [Video]

Find out what Matt Cutts says about the SEO differences between using rel="canonical" and 301 redirects.
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SEO Tag Cloud

Tag Clouds Good or Bad for SEO? [Video]

Find out what Matt Cutts says about the use of Tag Clouds on your site...including their effect on SEO.
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Pagerank Sculpting SEO

Is PageRank Sculpting Unethical? [Video]

Find out what Matt Cutts thinks about PageRank sculpting.
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2 Links 1 Page SEO

Do 2 Links From The Same Page Both Pass PageRank? [Video]

This is an interesting video on PageRank sculpting. The basis being, do 2 separate links coming from the same page…
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Meta Description SEO

Does Google Still Use Meta Description? [Video]

Find out if Google is doing away with the use of the meta description.
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Pipes or dashes in page titles SEO

Pipes vs Dashes in Page Titles [Video]

Learn how Google reacts to Dashes and Pipes in your page titles.
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Dash or Underscore in URL SEO

Dashes vs Underscores in URLs [Video]

Learn exactly how and why Google treats dashes and underscores differently when used in your webpage URL's.
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Wordpress SEO

WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 Released!

The big news is that the WP and WPMU (Multi-User) codebases have merged…and everyone will be able to run WP…
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NextGEN Gallery : Tables could not created, please check your database settings

Have you seen the following error when trying to install NextGEN Gallery, FLAGallery or a similar gallery? NextGEN Gallery :…
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Wordpress Hack SEO

ALERT: WordPress Attack Spreading Fast - Upgrade NOW!

WordPress developers are reporting (announced by "Lorelle on WordPress") there is an ongoing 'attack' on older versions (prior to release…
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Usability & SEO

Usability Experts - Top 10 to Follow on Twitter

One of the biggesst advantages of social networks like Twitter is you can learn alot by simply following the right…
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SEO Web Development

SEO Web Development

With the "I want it now" attitude of today's Internet user along with ever increasing search engine and overall internet…
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