SEO

When I hear the word YouTube two things come straight to mind: global connection and sneezing panda.

Increasing the number of quality backlinks to your website can be one of the most impactful and difficult tasks of a sound SEO strategy.

What's a Backlink?

A backlink is traditionally defined as another website that links to your own. At their most basic level, a quality backlink acts as a vote of confidence for your website. The more votes you have, the better you rank!

1. Meta page title

Arguably one of the most important factors of your on-page SEO, the meta page title is one of the first signals that search engines look at when they try to rank your page.

A good meta page title should be kept to 70-75 characters long, and should include 2-3 keyword phrases (a good keyword phrase is generally 3-4 words long), with little to no keyword repetition.

Researching landing page keywords and on-page SEO for a LevelTen project this week led to one conclusion: Whether its religion, economics, or web development, conversion is always the key.

Growing up in the web world, I viewed my op-tins as a trade of information, good for both sides. Yeah sure, websites wanted to accumulate email addresses and send me mail, but it was worthwhile to exchange that information for their content.

LevelTen recently launched a series of SEO modules for Drupal with two primary goals: to continue Drupal's leadership as the premier SEO platform, and to make higher search engine rankings accessible for everyone.

Background

Ever wonder how some companies are able to pump out blog post after blog post, seemingly without breaking a sweat?

For some, it's a natural talent. Creating high quality digital content isn't a chore - it's an activity that brings great satisfaction.

For others, it's a necessary evil - done to appease the wants and desires of the search engines and the social web.

Back in 2008, when LevelTen made the official switch to only supporting the Drupal CMS, one of the primary factors in our decision making was the marketing capabilities that Drupal provided. From a purely search engine optimization standpoint, Drupal was (and still is) heads and shoulders above other open source content mangement systems. Why is Drupal so much better?

1. Great coding.
2. Ease of content creation.
3. Modular functionality.

Great Coding

For a baseball fan like me, the first week of March is always a welcome time for delivering the promise of warmer, baseball-filled months ahead. Spring training is getting fired up in Arizona and Florida, and though my days of performing hitting and throwing drills are far behind, I have some skills to develop this spring.