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301 Redirect

301 redirect: A server status code that indicates that the web page or resource has moved permanently to another URL. The 301 redirect is sort of like having the post office forward your mail to a new address.; This kind of redirect is covered in the W3C Status Code Definitions section 10:

The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs.

Adding the Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress site.

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There’s a lot of chatter about Facebook’s new “Like” button. There are some important strategic considerations about implementing it and you should really think it over first–I’ll write a post on that later. For now, if you just want to jump headlong into it, here’s how.
Continue reading “Adding the Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress site.”

h2 tag

h2 tag: This tag denotes a subhead or secondary heading. As many h2 tags as are required may be used (as opposed to h1 tags, where you really should just have one).

Marker

Marker: A term used by programmers of magic mirror augmented reality systems to denote the pattern a camera will recognize. See glyph

Site speed

Site speed: How quickly a web site responds to web requests. Often measured as a length of time. As of April 9, 2010 Google began using this as a ranking factor for some searches.; Beyond search engine optimization, a site which responds faster to web requests — a site with faster page load times — will be more responsive and provided a better user experience to humans.; Sites with faster site speed will often incur fewer expenses for their owners in terms of bandwidth usage.

Resources for making your site load faster, the new SEO ranking factor

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As noted previously, Google is using site load time to help rank sites. I put together a quick list of further resources to help get everyone rolling on optimizing site speed for SEO.

Making a website load fast requires the help of everyone on your web team. The person making the content can have a huge impact through the kinds of content and preparation he or she puts into getting things online. Your site designer can be a critical link in making the entire site template either fast or slow–sometimes in just a few lines of code here or there. And then your heavy-tech geeks can really speed it up.

Here are a few external resources to help each of these areas make the site faster. Continue reading “Resources for making your site load faster, the new SEO ranking factor”

Three Ways to Measure: Tear down the wild mouse.

Tear down the wild mouse. The wild mouse just runs around, looking for the next bit of cheese. It has a simple observation system in place: a nose that smells cheese. It has an equally simple action-taking system: run towards the smell of cheese.

If your organization feels like riding on the back of a wild mouse, maybe you can use the three kinds of measurement mentioned in this presentation to understand the past, prepare for the present and innovate into the future.

Three Ways to Measure

All by itself this probably doesn’t make much sense.

Here are the notes: Continue reading “Three Ways to Measure: Tear down the wild mouse.”

Site speed is now an SEO issue: 3 things to do to speed up your website right now.

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It’s official. Google is including site speed as an aspect of how it determines who gets to the coveted “#1 on Google” spot. This has been coming for some time and really shouldn’t be a huge surprise to any of my readers.

Here are some things you can do right away to help make your site load faster. Continue reading “Site speed is now an SEO issue: 3 things to do to speed up your website right now.”

Gahlord Dewald speaking at BuzzRE Orange County

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Thoughtfaucet President/Janitor Gahlord Dewald will be presenting at the BuzzRE Orange County event on Thursday, April 29 alongside others including Dustin Luther, Linsey Planeta, Stacey Harmon and Dale Chumbley.

The event looks to be a jam-packed day of serious social media and web strategy content. Gahlord’s presentation and notes will likely find their way onto this site when it’s all done, but if you’re in Orange County you should definitely check out the full event.