Archive for the ‘Do It Yourself’ Category

How do Search Engines "Read" your Photos and Images?

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Say a search engine crawls your site. How can it “see” or read your images or photos? It cannot, unless you have Alt Tags describing the images. Alt Tags are descriptive words for images and other items that cannot normally be read by search engines such as Google. A picture is worth 1,000 words! But [...]

Do It Youself Search Engine Optimization Tips from Google’s Matt Cutts

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Matt Cutts gives some great common sense do it yourself search engine optimization tips. I posted a video on our diywebjem.com site for your to view, and offer additional free tips. He talks about a lot of the same tips I discuss: 1. Use a common sense approach, Think about what people will type into [...]

Why aren’t you using Mozilla Firefox?

Friday, December 26th, 2008

I have been using Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser for years. Even the guys at the computer store where I shop have been recommending it and loading it onto the computers they sell. One of the standard features I love is the restore previous settings. When the computer reboots (i.e from a Microsoft automatic [...]