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Category Archive for “Optimization”

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Optimizing Google Analytics Performance

It has occurred to me lately that I no longer use Google Analytics for Perishable Press. Instead, I find myself keeping an eye ...

Prevent JavaScript Elements from Breaking Page Layout when Following Yahoo Performance Tip #6: Place Scripts at the Bottom

By now, everyone is familiar with the Yahoo Developer Network’s 14 “best-practices” for speeding up your website. Certainly, many (if not all) ...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Favicons

Fifty Favorite Favicons If you have a website, you need a favicon. For those who ...

Seven Ways to Beef Up Your Best Pages for the Next Google PR Update

[ Keywords: pr, pagerank, page, rank, comments, posts, article, links, meta, seo, google ] Time is running out! Soon, it will be time ...

SEO 101: Best Practices

[ Keywords: seo, search, engine, optimization, optimize, websites, domains, links ] After studying Peter Kent’s excellent book, Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, several key ...

Search Engine Registration Notes

In his excellent book, Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, Peter Kent explains that many search engines actually get their search results from one (or more) of the larger ...

SEO 101: Establishing and Evolving an Effective Link Strategy

Introduction Optimizing your website for the search engines involves many important aspects including keyword development, search engine registration, and ...

Preloading Images with CSS and JavaScript

Fast-loading pages reduce errors, conserve bandwidth, and please visitors. One way to decrease loading times and enhance performance involves maximizing image display efficiency. Your mantra for achieving image efficiency should be "reuse, optimize, ...

W3C Validation Services

Here are the validation services currently provided by the W3C 1: W3C Semantic Data Extractor W3C Link Checker W3C ...

Perishable Press Search Engine Optimization Library

Welcome to Perishable Press! This article covers a plethora of search-engine optimization resources. For more excellent SEO information, check out the ...

Roll Your Own SEO Log

Introduction Search engine optimization (SEO) is the business of every serious webmaster. The process of optimizing a website for the search engines involves much more than properly constructed document ...

SEO 101: Keyword Development and Deployment

Keyword Development Keywords play a vital role in search engine optimization (SEO), and -- if used properly -- have the potential to increase the flow of traffic to your site. It is beneficial to ...

Optimize Convoluted Code via JavaScript

Search engines loathe crawling through convoluted lines of code. Oceans of complex JavaScript scare away the priceless indexing and archiving efforts of most major search engines, which will generally abort a crawl upon ...