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DMOZ: Increase SEO, PageRank in the Open Directory Project

29 February 2012

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and PageRank are two of the reasons why the Open Directory Project aka Dmoz is one of the few Internet directories that a webmaster should endeavor to have their website listed in. Search engine optimization comes in many different forms. Having your website in certain databases that are heavy trafficked and spidered is [...]

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How to Increase Your Google PageRank to 5: Part 2

11 September 2011

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In the first part of How to Increase Your Google PageRank to 5, we discussed what Google PageRank was, it mechanics, and I gave you a brief rundown on how our movie website got to a Google PageRank of 5. This part of the series will delve into the specific methods I used and ones you [...]

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How to Increase Your Google PageRank to 5: Part 1

8 September 2011

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How to Increase Your Google PageRank to 5 is a question many have asked themselves as Google PageRank is important to a website for a gaggle of reasons ( e.g. higher search result rankings for competitive keywords). At the end of July 2011, our movie website increased to a Google PageRank of 5. It took [...]

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8 Tips on How to Run a Successful Movie Website

8 May 2011

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Finding tips on how to run a movie website successfully are easy to come by. Everyone has an opinion how to run a successful movie website but you should only listen to the people that are actual movie website webmaster. They are knee deep in the game, have their heads on a swivel, and breathe running a [...]

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4 WordPress Plugins: SEO, Google Analytics, Image Resize, Contact Form

17 April 2011

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SEO (WordPress SEO), Google Analytics (Google Analytics for WordPress), Image Resize (WP Smush.it), and Contact Form (Contact Form 7) are WordPress Plugins that augment the previous WordPress Plugin List we published here: Starting a Movie Website: WordPress Plugins and are WordPress plugins that can improve the efficiency of your website.

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A Professional Web Designer’s thoughts on Websites, SEO, SERP, HTML, and Search Engines

26 October 2010

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I had a very interesting conversation with a professional website designer the other day. I thought I would share some of the topics and insights I gained from the lengthy conversation. I was talking to him about a redesign for one of my websites. I emailed a check list of things I wanted on the [...]

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4 Ways to Hammer Search Engine Terms

26 April 2010

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Search Engine Terms that should be Hammered are the search terms that bring your website the most traffic and that you want to rank for during a search engine query. I read on one blogging website that if you find something that works traffic-wise for your website, keep producing similar posts over and over again. [...]

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WordPress Ping List: April 2010

14 April 2010

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The list below is a working WordPress ping list. The godfather of ping urls in Ping-o-matic. If I were you, I would cross reference this list with the list of services pingomatic pings when you update your blog with a new post. As was mentioned in The Importance of the Ping and XML-RPC-based Push Mechanisms, [...]

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The Importance of the Ping and XML-RPC-based Push Mechanisms

12 April 2010

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Let search engines know that your movie website has published new content by sending them a ping, just as a movie studio would with a press release. Getting noticed by the search engines by alerting them each and every time you publish new content and getting it ranked as soon as possible is easier than [...]

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5 Steps to Get Your Movie Website Indexed by Search Engines

1 November 2009

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Getting your movie website indexed by search engines is not as mysterious or as arduous a task as it might seem. By getting indexed by major search engines, you improve your SERPs and increase the traffic to your website at the same time. 1.) Social Websites One of the public relations tricks I learned about [...]

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Keyword Placement for High SERPs (Search Engine Result Positions)

26 October 2009

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Keywords are integral for high SERPs (Search Engine Result Positions) of your for your website’s posts. Have you ever noticed on a website when you are reading a post and certain words are in bold? Keywords and SERPs are the reason why. They tell the search engine what is important and what it should pay attention [...]

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Post Title Importance to Search Engine Optimization

20 October 2009

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Advertise to Google and all the other search engines what your post is about in the post’s title. Load the post title with the correct keywords and be specific with the post’s main idea there. Here is what I sometimes do to Search Engine Optimize (SEO) movie trailers and movie reviews: I post the year [...]

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