Here are a few things the tool takes into consideration when grading your site:

Blog Analysis
Google Indexed Pages
Readability Level
Metadata
MOZ Rank
Traffic Rank
and more.

Again, this is a pretty solid tool and worth using with some of the other tools you might be running. The best part is that the tool is free to use. I would recommend using this along with Open Site Explorer, these will surely help boost both your on page seo efforts as well your link building strategy. So check it out.

As always, thanks for reading, and may the serps be with you.

Check out the video below or visit http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ to learn more.

Now rumor has it that Google plans to use PuSH for indexing the web instead of the crawling of links which has been the way search engines have indexed the web for years. If this happens it would be huge for some of the smaller websites since these sites are not often visited by Google. PuSH would allow these smaller sites to get their content indexed the second they publish it.

No one expects PuSH to replace crawling, after all Google still would need to crawl the web in order to find feeds to subscribe to, but it sure would make their job alot easier.

Now this is of course just a rumor, but from what others are saying across the web it looks like this will happen sometime soon. You can check out Read Write Web for the complete story regarding this rumor. Either way we’ll keep you posted as more news comes out. As always, thanks for reading and check back soon.

This is the first time we created a directory using the phplinkdirectory script and I must say that I was pretty impressed with the way the script functions, pretty straight forward and easy to use. If you know how to read code then changing things around is not that hard. It was a little tricky getting the script to match the layout of our site but as you can see things have worked out just fine. If you are using IE then you may notice a little difference in the way things are displayed, but those differences are pretty minor from what I can tell.

Unlike some of the other business directories this directory is 100%  search engine friendly so you can submit your site  without having to worry about whether or not if you going to get a direct link to your site, this applies to both featured and regular listings. So if you have a business with a website in or around the Seattle area then go ahead and submit it to our directory for free but please read the guidelines before you submit. As always, thanks for reading and feel free to leave any feedback regarding our Seattle Business Directory.

Visit our Seattle Business Directory today and get your business listed for free.

“SEO is the practice of helping publishers bring new traffic and customers to their Web site, by building and promoting high quality Web sites using technology that the search engines can parse. That need isn’t going away anytime soon.”

I think what most of these people fail to realize is that as long companies like Google, Microsoft (Bing) and Yahoo exist businesses will keep using them as a way to gain more customers. In others words, if the search engines die then so will SEO, but until that happens you can expect SEO and SEO companies to be around for quite awhile.

Well enjoy the artilce Is SEO Dying. As always thanks for reading.

Anyway, I like the Colts to take this one, just because the Jets slide one past them a few weeks ago I don’t see that happening today. Well enjoy the game and go Colts.

For users who have automatic updates enabled, the patch will download automatically via Windows Update. For those who don’t, Microsoft recommends they install the patch as soon as possible. It’s a good idea after installing the patch to make sure your anti-malware software is updated and then to run a full scan on your system, just to make sure nothing sneaked in while you were unpatched. Read the full story here.

So this is just a quick reminder to those who may not have done so in awhile, Backup Your Files. If you have a portable hard drive or a usb flash drive then that is the perfect place to put your backups. You really don’t want to just save them to your computer hard drive, Lord knows your computer might crash all together and you would lose everything.

Anyway, just thought I’d post this to remind myself and others to Backup Your Files, if possible try to do this every few days or so. If you write alot of blog post then I recommend doing it every day before you go to bed, you would hate to have to rewrite a few days worth of articles, unless they get cached as soon as you publish, if that is the case then it would just be a copy and paste then republish.

As always, thanks for reading, and don’t forget to Backup Your Files.

What is HTML 5?

HTML 5 is the next revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the standard programming language for describing the contents and appearance of Web pages. HTML 5 was adopted by the new HTML working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 2007. This group published the first public draft of HTML 5 in January 2008, but refinements are expected to continue for several years before HTML 5 becomes a formal recommendation.

Although HTML 5 is not officially released yet there are a number of  websites that have already started using the code and have created some pretty fancy sites with it. Check out some of the designs from HTML 5 Gallery, this site also has a wealth of information regarding HTML 5. I myself have not created a site yet using the code, I still have a few things to learn about the language before I jump into it. But for those who want to get started now I have provided a few resources below to help you get started. Enjoy, and as always, thanks for reading.

HTML 5 References

HTML5 differences from HTML4

HTML5 validator

HTML 5 Tag Reference

After finishing 33-31 the first time I expect things to be different this time around for Carroll, rumor has it that Pete Carroll wants to bring in Norm Chow, his former coordinator at USC, as well as USC offensive line coach Pat Ruel, a veteran NFL assistant. So from the look of things he is already off to a good start. Hopefully things will work out and he is able to lead the Seattle Seahawks back to the playoffs.

Seattle is still looking for a new GM so the spot is still up for grabs. Former Tennessee Titans general manager Floyd Reese will interview with the Seahawks sometime this week, and Pittsburgh Steelers administrator Omar Khan is also looking to meet with the team. I like the way things are looking so far for the Seahawks next year, now Seattle just needs to make a few good draft picks and we should be good to go. As always, thanks for reading.