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Link Google Analytics and Webmasters

Google has just announced Webmaster Tools integration with Google Analytics is now available to everyone. The trouble with the announcement is, they don’t tell you how the hell to link them! What linking Analytics with Webmasters gets you Once linked, you can find the new reports under the “traffic sources” >> “search engine optimization” …

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Google: The Relationship Algorithm

Often I find myself explaining SEO and ‘visibility’ to clients in terms of a relationship. It’s a pretty useful analogy, so I thought I’d share it. Feel free to take credit for it if you like. We won’t tell. Google Is My “Other Girlfriend” I’ve made peace with the fact that I’m in a relationship …

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JDM’s First WordPress Plugin

Ever print a web page out and it’s just about unreadable? Lord knows we have. Partly out of frustration the JDM Labs team has just completed their first (albeit simple) Wordpress plugin available for free download.

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NoFollow Links Ruin PR for SEO

Things they are ‘a chang’n–particularly when it comes to using online press releases as an off-page SEO strategy. Looking at the metrics across the board online PR just isn’t generating the inbound links it once did. Could it be because of something called “nofollow links” and “pagerank bleed”? You bet!

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Stop Spam. Read Books.

reCAPTCHA (recently acquired by Google) is a free CAPTCHA service that webmasters are using to prevent comment and other form submission spam, but reCAPTCHA also helps digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Bet you didn’t know that. I thought it was just there trying to annoy me. So wrong. A CAPTCHA is a …

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Thank you Akismet!

Webmasters, take a serious look at Akismet. Lord knows, you don’t need spambots posting comments and pingbacks that can hurt your SEO and credibility.

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Do I need a CMS?

A common question we get from clients is do I need a content management solution (CMS) to help manage my corporate website? As a rule of thumb, we suggest any website that will likely receive more than 4 updates per month needs to be on some sort of CMS. However, it’s a little more complicated than just that. Let’s dive into the PROs and CONs of investing in a CMS for your corporate website.

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Google +1 Button SEO Data

On March 3th, Google launched “+1” as a way to challenge Facebook’s Cross-web “Like” button and how Bing has chosen to use Facebook “Likes” in their search results. The idea is pretty simple. Content recommended by friends and acquaintance is likely more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a Transformers movie review from an …

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Web Tech Trends 2012

Early this year, HTML5 began to come of age. CSS3 matured alongside widespread adoption of the @font-face selector and the release of Rails 3.0 (which is partly what our Central enterprise project manager runs on). Clearly, it was a busy year for advanced web technologies. What web technology trends are on the horizon for 2012? …

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Google Analytics Benchmark Results

Based on anonymous data sharing gathered from Google Analytics users all over the world, Google has just released benchmark results to Google Analytics users via an opt-in only eNewsletter. Absolute metrics such as total # visits, pageviews, or conversions for all opted-in websites are NOT reported. The benchmark report includes the following data. Review, share, …

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W3C Validation Nuances

Is there an argument to be bade against W3C valid markup? Some insist perfectly valid markup is a requirement. We’re not sure that’s true.

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I hate passwords!

These days, it seems that everybody has some sort of online client portal they want to manage you through. Currently, I’m maintaining a list of over 350 different usernames and passwords for all the various portals I’m supposed to be using. Worse, my company has been working on a client portal too. Et tu, JDM?!

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