299 Steps to Website Heaven

For a long time I used Google Analytics to provide webstats for me and for my clients - and it worked. Great stats, pretty graphs, nice figures - everything I needed.The problem I had was that I couldn’t get real time stats - I had to wait until the next day, by which time in some cases it was too late to react to surges in traffic.

I needed something that showed me what my visitors were doing and where they were coming from NOW, not yesterday!

And then I found GetClicky.

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USA Today recently interviewed Google’s Matt Cutts and he shared his top tips for getting listed in Google. No surprises, to be honest, but I thought I’d share

1. Spotlight your search term on the page.
2. Fill in your tags.
3. Get other sites to link back to you.
4. Create a blog and post often.
5. Register for free Google tools.
6. Don’t overdo it!

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For most results, Google holds an archived or ‘cached’ copy of a page.

What this means is that the page in the cache will load quicker for the visitor, and the search terms will be highlighted.

However, problems arise when the cached version of a page and the current version are out of sync.

You can tell google NOT to cache your page by using the following META tag

in the head tag of your page:

meta name=”GoogleBot” content=”noarchive”

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You’ll notice a funky new button on the right hand side of this page, below the blurb about 299 Steps to Website Heaven - that’s a Digg button and we’d love it if you could add us to your Digg account.

Haven’t got a Digg account? Why on earth not? That was one of the 299 Steps to Website Heaven!

Thanks to all of you lovely readers who decide to Digg us, in addition to those of you that have Stumble-d Us, Delicious-ed us and Facebooked us!

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There’s been discussion over the past couple of years as to whether META keyword tags are actually used. The answer is that in some search engines, yes, and in others, no.

However, those that don’t use them may start using them again in the future, and those that do may stop.

Those that don’t use them won’t penalise you for having them, and those that do, will penalise you for not having them.

Confused yet?

Simply put, it’s better to include META keyword tags on every page of your site than to not. They’ll either do you no good or some good, but they won’t do you any harm.

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