by Patrick Daly on December 23, 2008
in General
Ten days ago I announced my switch from MediaTemple to HostGator hosting because things were very slow.
So check this out. Google Webmaster Tools fills you in on some metrics related to Google’s crawling of your site. Here’s what I found:
Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)
Notice that huge drop off towards the end. That means [...]
In November mindIT contacted me to help them improve online traction. They’re a small IT company in Dallas - great guys with a great business.
Google needed to hold up their end of the deal — finding the best IT companies in Dallas! Sadly, mindIT was lost amongst “the rest”. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t really show “the [...]
by Patrick Daly on October 1, 2008
in SEO
I have no clue what happened, but two days ago Yahoo! and MSN started crawling my site like crazy. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary but it seems like something clicked on my site. So its been like this for about two days; I’ll see how long it lasts…and hopefully Google will join [...]
by Patrick Daly on September 23, 2008
in SEO
Struggling to beat out your competitors on a national scale is tough to do - taking them on locally ain’t so tough!
You just have to know what to do.
Optimizing your content, but especially the markup of your page, is crucial to succeeding in dominating your local search results.
GeoRSS
Adding semantics to your page puts you leaps [...]
Just recently I’ve been putting a little bit of effort into developing my online reputation.
http://www.google.com/search?q=patrick+daly
A Google search for Patrick Daly (at least from Dallas, TX) shows that I own 70% of the top 10 results. The other three results are a MySpace page, a .gov site, and a biography of another Patrick Daly.
How much do [...]