Google just announced a site service called Page Speed which can accelarate your site by 25 to 60 percent. The new service will function like a content delivery network for your entire site: Google will fetch your pages, optimize them, speed them up and then deliver them. It is much like Cloudflare which some Ashford developers use. I an not sure I recommend either service yet, but it is a harbinger that speed is critical to the success of your site.
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How to improve mobile SEO
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Tim Bednar July 14, 2011 » Add the first comment.
If you are using Pro or any Premium theme for your site, you get what I call an instant mobile experience. The mobile version of your site is delivered to modern smart phones: iPhone, Android, WebOS, Window Phone 7 and Blackberry. Ashford follows the SEO guidance provided by Google’s John Mueller, John Mueller – @Paul [...]
HTML is the language of the web. Unfortunately, it is not well structured. Bing, Google and Yahoo! launched schema.org in an effort to help developers like me describe content/data in a more structured way. This is not really new. The news is that there is consensus which will lead to wide adoption.
How Ashford is optimized for search engines (SEO)
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Tim Bednar June 16, 2011 » Add the first comment.
After reading Joost de Valk recent article on WordPress SEO Theme Guidelines, I decided to explain how Ashford is optimized for SEO and why it does not need an SEO plug-in: Unlike many themes, the site name is not first in the title tag. All title tags start with the page or post title. Using Theme Options, [...]
How to create perfect SEO optimized permalinks
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Tim Bednar June 14, 2011 » Add more comments.
This is the second post in my series, How to build a web site with Ashford. My previous site had four pages: home, services, portfolio and Ashford. The new site will have more pages: home, design, development, mobile, consulting, portfolio, Ashford and about. The home page will list recent blog posts. I will create category for each [...]
Complete SEO support plus subthemes
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Tim Bednar November 3, 2008 » Add the first comment.
In release, v0.1.5, Ashford takes a giagantic step forward. A lot of work was done to make Ashford a killer SEO WordPress theme: Added custom keyword and meta tag support to the front page Added auto-generated keyword and meta tag support to all post and page templates Added robot meta tag support Together this enhancements [...]