http://www.slingshotseo.com/feeds/blog-author-jesse-laffen-rss.xml Slingshot SEO's Jesse J. Laffen RSS Feed en-US http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-optimize-images-on-your-site-for-natural-search-strategies Does your website have images? Of course it does! Images make content more lively and attractive, helping to keep a visitor's attention focused on your message.Too often, however, we see we websites ignoring the few easy guidelines Google has published regarding optimization of your images. Following these rules takes little effort, helps a search engine better understand your... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-optimize-images-on-your-site-for-natural-search-strategies#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:15:36 -0500 Jesse Laffen http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-optimize-images-on-your-site-for-natural-search-strategies http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-write-a-meta-description-even-if-google-says-it-doesnt-matter Google has told webmasters that there is a part of your site that has no material effect on your ranking, and since, many webmasters and SEOs are ignoring it. They're wrong, and you can take advantage of it.In the early days of SEO, much was made of optimizing meta descriptions. As search engines... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-write-a-meta-description-even-if-google-says-it-doesnt-matter#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:01:50 -0500 Jesse Laffen http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-write-a-meta-description-even-if-google-says-it-doesnt-matter http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/01/if-you-sit-at-the-cool-kids-table-google-displays-your-tweets Have you noticed Google's real-time results for certain queries being integrated into the organic search results? If you haven't, here's a snapshot of what they look like:   These blog posts, news stories, and, most often, tweets are fed into Google and Bing's organic results as they are created, stacked on top of each other as they come through the search engine. The scroll bar on the side... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/01/if-you-sit-at-the-cool-kids-table-google-displays-your-tweets#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:39:24 -0600 Jesse Laffen http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/01/if-you-sit-at-the-cool-kids-table-google-displays-your-tweets http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/what-my-failed-experiment-can-teach-you-about-your-title-tags For the past several months, I've been convinced that Google was using a fixed, pixel-width limit to decide where to cut off title tags in search results pages, replacing the contents with the dreaded ellipsis. After finding a few hours to devote to researching my theory, I can tell you... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/what-my-failed-experiment-can-teach-you-about-your-title-tags#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:42:27 -0600 Jesse Laffen http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/what-my-failed-experiment-can-teach-you-about-your-title-tags