Comments on: Top SEO Myths Exposed

By: Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:44:13 +0000

Nice post!! There are many things learning from your article. Thanks!!

By: sesli sohbet

sesli sohbet — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:42:01 +0000

There is a little bit of a misconception about this. Relevant reciprocal links (ie in your niche or closely related to your niche or locality) can be helpful. Also, deep links (ie not top level domain links) provide good links for businesses and non-profits and are smart SEO practice. (Of course you have to take into account the quality or trust level of the domain that Google associates with a particular issue or search)

Fantastic list Josiah. Very nice.

By: Yesi Hill

Yesi Hill — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:42:35 +0000

Great article. There is many thing to learn from you article. Thanks for posting such valuable blog

By: Josiah Mackenzie

Josiah Mackenzie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:01:42 +0000

Dimitris, you’re 100% right. Web page coders play a very important role in making sure a website’s architecture is solid. I was referring more to the “design” function of a web development team.

To produce an effectively optimized website, designers, coders, and marketing folks all need to work together.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Dimitris Serifis

Dimitris Serifis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:39:48 +0000

Hello Josiah,

Congratulations for the fantastic job you have made on this blog. Just today I found it for a first time through this article at eHotelier newsletter. I have a comment regarding the influence of the web designer to the SEO process.

As you probably know it is important for the search engines, the html code of each page to be implemented according to the W3C standards. In order a web page to be cross browser compatible and W3C friendly, you have to use advanced CSS. A web designer must have a deep knowledge of CSS technology in order to be able to understand how the graphics that creates would be converted from image to html. Some times it is difficult to convert the designers concept to a valid html format. For example, few years before it was impossible to create a W3C valid website with a flash movie to the background. Although many designers did that.

Of course the web designer is the last piece of the chain regarding on site optimization, but definitely they must have some basic knowledge about that.

By: Josiah Mackenzie

Josiah Mackenzie — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:54:38 +0000

@Sam – thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your kind comments. I spend a lot of time writing everything I know about how hotels can gain a competitive edge, so I’m glad you like it!

@Nathan – great reminders: getting links from other websites about your topic…and trying to get those links to pages deep within your site are both worthwhile goals.

By: Nathan Ketsdever

Nathan Ketsdever — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:13:39 +0000

>>>Myth: Trading links is a good idea

Fantastic list Josiah. Very nice.

By: Sam Daams

Sam Daams — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:03:20 +0000

Josiah, I’ve been following your blog since we met in Berlin and I just had to post a comment today. How do you do it? You post regularly, yet each post seems to contain incredibly valuable information! Sure, it’s aimed at a niche, but the niche is surprisingly large and struggling at the moment. Without doubt your blog would give a lot of hoteliers a massive advantage on their competition, if they only use it to grasp what is going on out there and tinker with some of the ideas for their own businesses.

I’m very impressed. In fact, I don’t recall having ever been this impressed with an industry related travel blog. It’s the value that’s hidden in these posts when used properly that impresses me, as a lot of others are not going to be posting this kind of thing publicly. If I ever meet a hotelier struggling with the web, I’m sending them your way!

By: netultimate

netultimate — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:15:49 +0000

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