ProStores Tips and Tutorials - One Take Media

Tracking your backlinks is very important. Here are a couple methods to do so.

Sign up for google webmaster tools, it will show you a list of some of your backlinks. good article on finding your links from Google. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html

You can go to www.yahoo.com and put linkdomain:yoursite.com -domain:yoursite.com into the search bar.

I also recommend you sign up for Yahoo Site explorer and you can view a large portion of those who link back to you that yahoo has in its database.

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
type in the search bar site:www.website.com

Click the Inlinks button > click the first drop down and choose “except from this domain” then once that loads again move to the second drop down and choose “Entire Site”. This site has a few tools that are very beneficial. Get the SEO Link Analysis plug in by Yoast, it gives you on page analysis of the backlinks and is very useful. While your at it sign up for Yoast’sRSS feed. Sign up for our ProStores Tips and Tricks Feed as well.

There a lot of third party tools as well. http://www.seomoz.org/toolbox/backlinks is one i use a lot, it will also show you a historical list of your backlinks. It uses siteexplorer but like I mentioned before it will show you how many you used to have. So it provides a good basis for comparison.

Hi all,

Here at One Take Media we have been busily working on a updated version of our current design!

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Learn 10 easy tips to create seo and customer friendly Title Tags.

http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/09/10-seo-and-marketing-friendly.htm

Read this, then check out my post about creating custom page titles in ProStores.
http://www.onetakemedia.net/blog/prostores-tip-creating-custom-page-titles/

Just wanted to share a little with all you folks that read my blog, I am now the happy recipient of the ProStores Designer Certification!

I’ve been involved with ProStores Design and Coding for 3 years now, but had not actually gone through the process to get certified. I have now and am glad I did!

So you will now see this logo on our home page and on our solutions page, you can rest assured that the work we do here at One Take Media is of the highest quality!
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Today’s post is straight from the Google Webmaster Central Blog - Its a great article about Duplicate Content and how Google handles it.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

Duplicate content. There’s just something about it. We keep writing about it, and people keep asking about it. In particular, I still hear a lot of webmasters worrying about whether they may have a “duplicate content penalty.”

Let’s put this to bed once and for all, folks: There’s no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty.” At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.

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Knowing how search engines see your site will enable you to better write content for your site.

Here is a link to a great tool that will show you how Search Engines see your site. http://www.seo-browser.com/

Ian Lurie of Portent Interactive and Conversation marketing.com, an internet marketing blog, gives a presentation discussing how to pick keywords that will help grow your business. Read more »

Keywords, what are they? Simply put keywords or keyword phrases are the words or phrases people use to find your site with. They are words that may be used by viewers searching for information.

“A keyword is a single word or multi-word phrase that relates to both the product or service you want to advertise and the way people search for that product or service. When potential customers search for information related to your keywords, your ads or website may be displayed.” http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/ysm/sps/faqs/camaccstruc/keywords.html

If you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at matt@onetakemedia.net

Just a quickie for today! I’ve seen a few people using this already but I thought I’d share it with you all.

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How do you indent text / paragraphs in html? I have compiled a short list of several way to do this.
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