Cog SEO Blog

Melanie Prough | June 23, 2009

The short guide to beginner SEO topics and tools.

Category: SEO General, SEO Tools | 2 Comments »
Tags: Amount Of Traffic, Available Tools, Google, Google Toolbar, Internet Marketing, Optimization Seo, Page Rank, Relevance, Search Engine Optimization, Search Optimization, Usability, Web Site Traffic

Melanie Prough | June 9, 2009

Functional testing tools are an important weapon in your web development arsenal whose use provides a huge productivity gain and allows for small testing groups to accomplish significantly more work, more quickly. There is a very strong economic case for the use of Functional Testing Tools as part of the development and deployment cycle of a website.

Category: SEO Tools, Webmaster Posts | 1 Comment »
Tags: Automated Software, Automated Testing Tools, Customer Base, Human Testers, Regression Testing, Software Automation, Software Testers, Software Testing, Test Coverage

Melanie Prough | June 3, 2009

Start the day at the Cog with a fun SEO giggle or 2… You will like this very funny poem about SEO Tools.

I am in my cave, and looking out kind of furtive,
The reason being, psychologically, I am low assertive,
It seems to me with dinosaurs just outside the cave,
Its entirely reasonable now, to be anything but brave,
But the tribal psychiatrist insists that I must face my fears,
And he issued me with stones, and little wooden

Category: SEO Tools | 2 Comments »
Tags: Funny, giggle, poem, SEO Tools

Melanie Prough | May 16, 2009

There are many programs used inside the server environment to analyze logs and provide analysis of many different metrics of the site. Most times your server / hosting company will provide some sort of stats program for you, sometimes even two. I did a little digging and will cover a few details about what appear to be the top 4 programs out there right now.

Category: SEO Tools, Webmaster Posts | No Comments »
Tags: Analog, Awstats, Comparison Table, Hosting Company, Htaccess, Html Interface, Logs, Mail, Metrics, Perl Scripts, Posix, Report Capability, Server Environment, Webalizer

Melanie Prough | May 5, 2009

This is quick get started guide, I hope it helps to get you going with the toolset. I suggest even seasoned webmasters use them, if for no other reasons than to be able to submit your map, see your crawls and errors, and remove pages from the index. That’s powerful stuff!

Category: SEO Tools | 2 Comments »
Tags: Google, Google Webmaster Tools, Heading, Meta Tag, Protocol, Robots, Toolset, Webmasters Tools

Melanie Prough | April 3, 2009

I did some heavy investigating and have decided that ROR (Resources of a Resource) is like a “Sales Pitch” for the engines that use it. For the engines that do not it is still a sitemap/content link and a feed….we all know feeds are hot.

Category: SEO General, SEO Tools | 2 Comments »
Tags: Directories, Google, Link Rel, ror, Xml

Melanie Prough | April 2, 2009

Google says you can now choose a location for your content per directory, domain, and sub domain to help them improve the geographic search results.

Category: SEO Tools, Search Engine News | 2 Comments »
Tags: Country Location, Geographic Location, Geographic Search, Geographic Target, Google, Google Webmaster Tools, Target Audience Note, Webmasters Tools

Melanie Prough | April 2, 2009

Now get in there! Seriously, it’s a pretty big job and can be very daunting….But the rewards are very good. Let’s face it, you will improve your pages, their search engine position, and you have just added a whole new pool of skills and knowledge to your own personal growth.

Category: SEO General, SEO Tools, Webmaster Posts | 1 Comment »
Tags: Google, Google Search, Optimization Seo, Optimization Tools, Page Evaluation, Page Optimization, Problem Solving Skills