How to Properly Move Domains  (1,071 Reads)

Wow, SeoMoz has written a SEO Guide for properly moving a domain.  I know a lot of clans don't care about search engine optimization, but if you ever have to take on this task you will quickly learn its a pain the butt.  One improper step and you can fubar everything you have worked so hard for.  I learned the hard way and I am glad SEOMoz has taken the time to lay it all out in an easy to read format. Moving domains can make a tremendously negative impact on sea...

 Open link in new window or not?  (1,140 Reads) (4 Comments)

It is a major controversy across the web whether to open a new link in a new window (or tab). Some users find it very annoying, but myself as a web master I enjoy it with consideration. If a link leads to a site that does not belong to you, I prefer (as a web master) to open it in a new window (or tab). However, if a link leads to page on the same domain I prefer it open in the same window (or tab). As a web master, I do not want users leaving my site. As a user, I find it much easier to naviga...

 CT SEO for News Module Updated  (1,013 Reads)

Yet another change for CT SEO and users.  I changed the way the news module works just a little bit.  In the past the only way to browse news was the Clan Themes News Page and you were limited to 10 articles per topic.  This is also bad for search engines because they are limited to crawling only the 10 most recent. Now each topic has its own page where the user or the search engine can crawl every article ever published under that topic.  Not a huge deal for users beca...

 Gamers Searching for Clans  (2,360 Reads) (22 Comments)

Recently I wrote an article about why I think Splash Screens Suck.  In one the comments Duck brings up a very good point about why a clan's presence in search engines is very important. Actually I agree with Floppy Splash Screens are dumb! There are the occasional one that are very cool to watch but that can also be presented as a block or module in your site rather than an actual splash screen. I have to say 98% of splash screens I have seen for clan sites are useless though and annoyin...

 Splash Screens Suck  (1,938 Reads) (12 Comments)

First off I know clans for some reason are not interested in SEO.  My thoughts on that are your stupid.  Yeah, your stupid.  You can quit reading if your offended.  I am not too much on the caring side tonight.  Yeah they piss me off.  However on to the point. Splash screens are for the most part dumb and pointless.  I don't think anyone should have one.  Not only for search engine optimization, but they require one more click a person must make to see ...

 Clans Websites Welcome at Lobo Links Web Directory  (1,738 Reads) (4 Comments)

Introducing Lobo Links Web Directory!! I decided to start a web directory to offer young webmasters a chance to advertise their site to the world.  I know how hard it can be to build your google page rank and find related visitors.   I will not give you the full speech about how important it is that you build your backlinks / pagerank, but it is never wasted effort. The Directory includes 3 different types of submissions Featured Submissions ($14.95 a year) Re...

 Faking your Page Rank  (3,648 Reads) (10 Comments)

Just this morning Ped was nice enough to point me to an article,  Beware of Fake PageRank at Codezwiz.  I am hardly focused on the article, but more or less how one user can fake Google page rank.  I have never really thought about it, but I am sure it pisses Google off.  I started doing some research and came up with some great resources information. How did this web site get this high PageRank number? The web sites used a relatively simple trick. A known loophole in...

 Images and SEO  (1,879 Reads) (2 Comments)

One of the most common SEO techniques is using alt tags for your images which of course is a good practice anyway.  The basics behind the principle is to put keywords your targeting in  your image alt tags. Darren Rose writes Over the years SEO techniques have been developed to abuse this fact and webmasters have ’stuffed’ their ‘alt tags’ with all kinds of keywords - however Google has found ways to combat this and treats such strategies as spamming their b...

 Writing Quality Content  (2,202 Reads) (2 Comments)

One of the best things you can do for your site is write genuine content articles.  Basically the simple principle here is you want to write content other users will read and link others to.  How do you write SEO friendly articles though.  Here are a few tips. Use the proper heading tags for your content article The tilte should always be in heading 1 tags aka h1.  Find out more in this article PhpNuke Article Titles and the use of Headings.  The subtitles should fol...

 Redirecting the index.php  (3,205 Reads) (2 Comments)

The Problem About a month ago I realized that clan themes had two different page ranks.  Our link www.clan-themes.co.uk/index.php had a page rank of 3 and our link www.clan-themes.co.uk had a page rank of 4.  It made no sense to me.  It turns out Clan Themes had over 150 links from other pages using the address www.clan-themes.co.uk/index.php. Its a shame google can't distinguish between the two, but its the truth.  Since www.clan-themes.co.uk/index.php had over 150 inbou...