If you have not tried out Google Webmater tools. You should. They are that helpful.

Google has created these tools to help you see how google sees your site.  You could uncovers some big problems with simple fixes.

These tools allow you to see what search results you pages are appearing on, what pages are indexed, submit sitemaps, and many more.

Intown Web Design is proud to be working with Scardino Doors by improving their web presence and search engine rankings.  They already have a helpful web site and needed additional SEO advice.

The domain name has more to do with the success of a site than you would initially think. 

When you are searching for information, do you ever look at the domain name?  I do, I am checking it for relevancy.   If the site is neededinfo.com.  This name has much more creditability than my-needed-info.biz or some variation. 

Recently in a forum post I was asked if websites were better generalized or specialized.

The post was in regards to Paper Shredder Reviews , which is a fairly specialized site.

This is a great question.  Here is my answer.

I have found many helpful online SEO tools over the years and then lost them due to not bookmarking them or changing my bookmarks around. 

This post contains my all time favorite SEO tools, the ones used on a daily basis.

What SEO tools do you find helpful? Post them in the comments. 
The goals is to create a useful resource for all.

Intown Web Design has teamed up with JoomlaTraining to create a Joomla SEO classand learning experience on Friday, June 19, 2009.

This full day class is a mixture of round table discussions where your web site is the focus and SEO talks with real world examples. 

We are always looking for the best, most efficient way to manage Joomla. Recently we researched the methods to manage meta data in Joomla 1.5. We found two main options: sh404 meta management and the SEF Patch from Joomla to work.

For those new to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and website development, SEO can appear very challenging.  There are many aspects to an optimized page.

Do not worry. As the concepts become familiar, the process becomes manageable.  You also realize that there is no "magic bullet" that gets your site to the top.  Much of SEO is attention to detail, time, and effort.

Climbing to the top of search engine result pages is a slow steady process. It takes effort and time, when you are there the view is worth it.

One of our websites is being hosted with dreamhost.  Their uptime has not been the best but it has never been down long enough for the need to take action and change hosting providers.  The site was down about once or twice a month and for never more than an hour or two at a time.  Over the past two weeks it has been getting worse down almost every other day.  Each time the site goes down it is for 5 minutes to a couple hours.