Posts by PixelatedKarma

You shouldnt need to pay w3c anything to get an error free result. It should be part of your site QA/QC process; you just need to keep running it and correcting errors; it takes time but it should be done anyways. Error free clean code with good markup is just a good best practice all around.

And if you dont do it for SEO think of it this way; you have a wordpress blog. After a few years you are seeing 25,000+ visitors per month because of this you have migrated from a shared hosting plan to VPS to dedicated server in conjunction with a CDN to handle the traffic load. Maybe you see the potential of it growing even more; so you invest on migrating the site to a cloud environment. These moves become so much easier having clean semantic code because you dont have to worry about the theme having to be hacked together during every move to make the site actually work.

Or how about this reason - wordpress releases a new version; suddenly all the hack code you've used to be browser compatible (and was error ridden in w3c) with your theme now makes you theme no longer work. Now all of that hard work you've dumped into making your website look, feel and act how you want - is now all gone.

Be the SEO person who does things right and do right by your clients; it will take more time, it will be more …

Maybe blue hat SEO is when you use 5+ year old SEO tactics and make little or no effect on search engine ranks hahaha. Read Google Best Practices, learn each aspect of SEO indepth and as Happy Geek has said you will be doing SEO the right way.

When you are talking about the website not ranking well I assume that you are referring to SERPs. However if its an Alexa or mozRank issue then you will need to let me know.

A single blog post shouldn't negatively effect your entire website. Google likes new content 750+ words per post (ideally 1500) with pictures. But they also want to see that new content is put in context. So for example if you are running a small business website about flanges, it doesn't benefit your website to have content about pets. Lastly is your content keyword optimized (not over optimized but optimized)?

If the content is perfect and keyword focused for your website then it may be an issue with the technical side of your website. Does every page validate with w3c? What is your link structure like? Does your Google Webmaster account show any errors? Are your URLs search engine friendly? Is your robots.txt blocking any subdirectories so its taking longer for certain things to get crawled? How often is your sitemap being updated? Are you manually submitting your sitemap? Are there errors with your sitemap? Are you properly priotizing articles on your sitemap as per your cascading link structure?

Since this thread seems to have arrisen from the dead; I'd like to put in my two cents. The answer is dependent on what your website is about. Google+ is a great start because of how it ties in with the rest of Googles products and services which will help your website be "Google official" - thus minorly effecting SEO but the rest will all depend on the audience you are trying to get. You need to remember that the reason SEO exists is to get good rankings in search engines; we want to get good ranks in SE to drive traffic; the reason we drive traffic is to be found; the reason we want to be found is to convert visitors into paying customers (whether through direct lead conversion, using our services offline, or by making money through ad revenue).

For example; Instagram can be extremely effective - but only 17% of users in the last half of 2013 were reported as being adults with 37% of those users being in the age group of 18-29. The majority income bracket in the group of adults was $30,000-$50,000.

If your website is aimed at selling retirement properties; Instagram will not be your most effective social media platform. However if you are selling alcohol then you are definitely on the right path (statistically speaking when you combine those stats with the stats of consumer consumption of alcohol).

That being said as a part of your social media strategy you shouldn't just …

Since most of the web services you mentioned are ran by different Companies they would be reluctant to share user information with each other for privacy reasons.