Jan 24
Chris HornakSEO experiment, SEO, tumblr, weebly, wordpress
Lastnight I was reading “Crush it” by Gary Vaynerchuk, who’s known for using social media to grow his brand and wine library tv. While I was reading it I came to a section where he was talking about choosing a blog platform. The two he really focused on was wordpress, which was no surprise, and tubmlr, which was a surprise. He mentioned that with tumblr you could use your own domain and tumblr would host it for free.
I quickly went to my computer and setup a tumblr account. It was easy to use and took very little time to get started. I then asked myself “could I use this to quickly setup a search engine friendly website with no budget.
After a quick search I found that dot.tk allows you to register a free domain with no ads and found that weebly.com allowed you to make a more flexable website. Tumblr is great but it seemed to be aimed at blogging and social media rather than a static website for businesses.
This is what got me to setup what I’m calling the weebly seo experiment. Visit the website for the latest updates.
Jan 12
Chris HornakSEO
At this Friday’s Pittsburgh SEO Group meeting I’ll be leading a group discussion on Recent Google Updates including: real-time search, personalized search for everyone and the New 3 Panel Google Design. We’ve been talking about these google updates around the office over the past month, especially the real-time search. It will be really great to get input from other Pittsburgh professionals.
The meeting is this Friday(1/12/10) at 2000 Technology Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15219. For more details please visit the Pittsburgh SEO Group website and RSVP while there are still spots available.
Oct 14
Chris HornakResearch, SEO algorithims, google, google updates, monitoring, SEO, tracking
Subscribe to Major Search Engine Blogs
Part of being an SEO professional is keeping up to date with major search engine updates. To keep things simple I’m just going to talk about tracking Google’s algorithm updates. Of course one of the best places to start is the official Google blog. Subscribe to the feed using an RSS reader like Google Reader. I attempt to read through my RSS feeds everyday, prioritizing each feed into specific categories. The official search engine blog sites are the first ones I read everyday then I work my way down my list; advanced SEO blogs, basic SEO news, social media news, webmaster news, etc. This way I get the most important updates (algorithm changes) first. More
Aug 26
Chris HornakResearch, SEO
Recently I’ve been collecting online resources that look deeper into the science behind search engines. Here are some of the papers I’ve read that I felt like really provided me with a much deeper insight into SEO. When you start out learning about search engine’s optimization you get caught up in many of the tips and tricks that are found all over the internet but after a while you start to learn which resources to trust and then you start reading between the lines. The next logical step is to start researching the history of search engines and the science behind their inner workings. More
Aug 19
Chris HornakSEO
Monday Rand Fishkin make a great post on the SEOmoz blog titled “Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization“. I usually pass over these on-page checklists as it seems they are a dime a dozen and usually there’s a lot of opinion that over shadows the core principles. This article really stuck out More
Aug 10
Chris HornakSEO online portfolio, seo career, seo jobs
This Saturday will be my last day of class and my completion of the MBA program at Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I have always had the urge to keep learning and this is one of many reasons to why I have found myself in the field of search engine optimization.
I often get asked by younger individuals what courses they should take if they want to get into the field of search engine optimization and internet marketing. Currently there are very few institutions that offer SEO courses and since there are very few clearly defined standards for SEO More
Aug 07
Chris HornakSEO link popularity, on-page optimization, seo analysis, seo tools
At Eyeflow we find it important to develop some of your own SEO tools. There are many options out there when it comes to checking your link popularity, on-page optimization, trust, etc but there usually isn’t one tool that does it all the best and also to meet your specific needs. We’ve found that your best option is to use More
Aug 04
Chris HornakSEO, Usability
Some of you might of arrived here thinking “why is this website so plain?” and that’s a perfectly normal thing to ask. Some people want to have loud flashy designs and this can be good depending on the industry and audience you are targeting but one thing you always want to keep in mind; can a search engine find your website? More
Aug 03
Chris HornakSEO
I thought it was time I setup a blog on my personal domain as an opportunity to express my thoughts on all things SEO. If you found my blog you may know me from the Pittsburgh SEO Group or Eyeflow Internet Marketing, the SEO firm I work for. I hope you come back to read some of my posts, which have yet to be written but trust me there’s a lot of thoughts I need to get out.
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