If you’ve noticed in your search engine listings that your homepage shows up twice, once for yourdomain.com and again for www.yourdomain.com, then you have what is called a canonical issue.

Basically, you need to pick which domain URL you want to have indexed, either the “www” version or the one without. Because if you don’t the search engines like Google will …

If you’ve recently upgraded your wordpress blog system and have since found funny, foreign looking characters in your posts, you are not alone.

Apparently when you upgrade sometimes your WP-Config.php gets overwritten with a new file which contains a few lines of code that can mess up your text and database character formatting and display.

In my case, after going from wordpress …

You may have seen some funny stuff on the Google search listings tonight. If you did, don’t adjust your monitor, don’t toss your glasses, many of us saw it also. What we saw was two new clickable icons next to the each search listing entry.

So what’s going on these new arrow and X boxes?

Well Google announced today the official …

Since I just posted on the meta description tag, it’s only fair to give the meta keywords tag equal space.

Common format: <meta name=”keywords” content=”<keyword1>,<keyword2>,…<keywordXX>” />;

In general, I never meta tag I didn’t like until this one, get it? Okay, bad joke.

Point is, this tag is pretty much on the outs in the search engine community. Few search engines even acknowledge …

In my mind the only real meta tag of SEO significance is “meta description”. But like its sister meta keywords, the meta description tag is not as important as it one was.

The description tag is just that, a short description of your webpage, and really nothing more.

Common format: <meta name=”description” content=”<YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE>”/>

While Yahoo, Google and other search engines do …

Arguably the single most important factor for getting ranked highly in the search engines is how you optimize your title tag.

A unique, keyword-oriented title tag together with strong content can really help move your page up the ranks. But a poorly worded title tag will almost always torpedo whatever is below.

Yet many sites fail to realize this and their rankings …

Another simple, easy to apply webmastering tip is adding a favicon.ico to your site. If you are a webmaster you’ve no doubt seen the server request made a thousand times in your log files and if you don’t have one – which many people do not – it also takes up space by appearing in your error log.

The mysterious favicon.ico …

A common question I get asked is just what the heck is a “robots.txt” file and what good is it? Well, in some ways it can be the most important file you have, but it’s often overlooked and disregarded.

It’s important in that making a mistake in your robots.txt file could easily torpedo the success of your site. One single typo, …