http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/ Just the facts. en Copyright 2009 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:13:31 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss tool: SEObook.com compiled a 6 page robots.txt primer and added a robots.txt generator and robots.txt analyzer to their suite of free SEO tools.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2009/02/quarkbase_everything_about_a_w.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2009/02/quarkbase_everything_about_a_w.php tools Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:58:03 -0500 article: Wades through the jargon and delivers the tips you need to ensure the websites you build are compliant with the federal laws and guidelines for web accessibility.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2009/02/section_508.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2009/02/section_508.php Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:08:26 -0500 tool: PageRankChecker is free and comprehensive Pagerank lookup tool with a host of options to choose from. You can check page rank for multiple pages, check page rank of an entire site using XML sitemap, or check page rank of all the links emanating from a particular URL.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2009/02/pagerankchecker.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2009/02/pagerankchecker.php Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:47:07 -0500 article: How we read on the Web. Gerry McGovern says we don't scan a page, we scan blocks or sections of it. Breaking the page up into various sections or blocks and then scan within these areas.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/12/block_reading.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/12/block_reading.php writing Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:57:03 -0500 PDF download: Google has released an official Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide.  It doesn’t include any of Google’s algorithm secrets, but it does cover Google’s best practices for title tags, meta tags, URL structure, navigation, content, anchor text, headers, images and of course, Robots.txt, making this a good way to review the basics.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/11/seo_starter_guide.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/11/seo_starter_guide.php seo Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:12:05 -0500 article: An SEO guide for designers who want to learn about making it easier for websites or blogs to be found by search engines. Including basic tips that you should be practicing to optimize your site for search engines.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/11/know_your_site.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/11/know_your_site.php books Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:03:34 -0500 article: Search Engine Journal has compilied a huge list of Google Analytics Tips.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/11/open_source_social_software_ap.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/11/open_source_social_software_ap.php resources Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:26:41 -0500 tools: Design Mag has a round-up of 20 tools to help analyze any website.
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]]> http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/09/page_analysis_tools.php http://www.panopticdesign.com/714/2008/09/page_analysis_tools.php tools Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:58:42 -0500 article: A list of five common Home Page mistakes.
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