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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search engines like Google™ only need a few things to make them spider and list your site. Most people make mistakes that make their site either inaccessible, or get it de-listed.

Many people are surprised when friends, colleagues, or worse, customers, say that they can't access their site, or don't understand it, or it just doesn't work correctly.

Your site should be friendly to search engines and people, including people who are using different types of browsers, text-only, speech enabled, etc.

Understandably, many people do not have the time, or expertise to make their site friendly to search engines, and people.

As a consultant, I will look at your site and make recommendations of what to do to make it compatible for search engines and people.

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Problems Viewing Web Site in IE8

Now that Internet Explorer is less fault tolerant, and more standards compliant, more and more people are complaining about how their website was fine in IE7, but breaks miserably in IE8. Usually this is the fault of the tool chosen to create the web site, and not necessarily the author. Authors were given the impression that they could use an Office product such as Publisher, Word, or worse, PowerPoint to create documents for the WWW. These are great tools for what they are intended, creating fliers, writing letters and make presentations, but not for creating documents for the Internet.

Sadly, a lot of authors do not know anything about HTML, or CSS, or even why the errors their chosen tool generated are impacting their web site so badly. They know that the web site does not work in IE8, and they are worried that they might lose business.

I feel for you, brothers and sisters. Bring me your broken websites, and I will fix them. Not only will they look lovely in IE8, they will be leaner and faster, and more accessible to search engines and visitors who might be differently abled.

September 22, 2010 - Update: Internet Explorer version 9 Beta has been released. This browser is even more compliant than its predecessor. At this time, it still does not pass the Acid 3 Test, but it is getting better. If pages break in IE8, they will break even more miserably in IE9.

A Word From Your Sponsor

A little about the spider and mouse logo. I like spiders. I think they are inspirational. It seems that Robert the Bruce of Scotland was inspired by a spider who was having problems building a web, but on the seventh try was able to do so. This inspired him to fight the British king a seventh time, and that time he was able to drive him back. The story is at Bruce and the Spider. My family comes from Scotland, so this story is even more inspiring to me. Thanks to Orson who sent me a link to the story.

I wear glasses that look like those, but, I don't have a mouse that color, although I wish I did. No, on second thought, I am very happy with my Logitech track ball -- small footprint that does not require a mouse pad, and great for small areas.

I am the web site administrator at nextBlock.com as well as Mother to my wonderful son, Spane, now 9. We live in Glendale, California, and I have been designing web sites for over ten years. I also do Search Engine Optimization consultation, and some personal sites on the side, when I get the time.