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Shopify Links by ZooThemes.com

Mark — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:47:44 +0000

This website was started to offer Shopify store owners a great resource for building their online business. While, I was not trying cut out the Shopify blogs and forums, their seemed to be a huge problem in finding this information efficiently.

I thought, why not create a site similar to Scriptandstyle.com and Nettuts.com. Keep in mind, this site does not come close to either of those sites, but that it takes the philosophy from both. Attempting to expand the wealth of knowledge in a willing community. The main difference being the site focuses on singular product and what I believe to be a superior product in e-commerce.

The site will not solely focus on Shopify, of course, it will broaden to all sorts of relevant applications, especially those that integrate directly with Shopify. Blog posts and articles related to Shopify are always welcome, as opinion and dialogue are often needed on techniques, strategies and services to determine what is and what is not.

5 SEO tips from Brad Powell

Mark — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:40:45 +0000

Check out the small article on 5 SEO tips from Brad Powells’ Blog.

Simple and short but I think he has it right with these five tips. These techniques are simple enough to follow but hard to implement 100% throughout a site, read validate markup and optimize H1 tags. But that’s the point. Everyone is getting SEO wrong by paying companies huge sums and over thinking the whole SEO fad.

Granted, there are exceptions. When you have thousands of pages like an IBM or Adobe site, SEO is much harder, or in the case of an all flash site such Adobe’s Kuler site (kuler.adober.com). But for the rest of us using blogs, portfolios, corporate promotion or e-commerce sites, search engine optimization could be accomplished with the help of basic techniques, like those suggested in the link above and if you’re using an open source CMS then a few quality plugins.

How are you performing SEO on your site?

Worthy SEO Article

Mark — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:22:53 +0000

While stumbling around web development categories I came across a good search engine optimization article. I like it because it’s simple and descriptive. Often techniques subject to industry jargon often get over-sold by marketers and over-thought by those that implement them.

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200502/basics_of_search_engine_optimisation/

SEO is a perfect example of being over done. Web 2.0 is the new SEO, and before that AJAX was the new SEO. No one quite knows what it means and everyone has their own definition. They start out innocent and meaningful, but only get watered down by spamming Twitter accounts or bogus blog articles.

I am going to write a Shopify SEO article soon. Basics. Steps… baby steps. That way you can have a meaningful simple track to take in your SEO efforts. Sometimes just a small drink is all you need to run a marathon.