Blog | Gravitate One - Part 18

HTTP Headers and Status Codes and Other Cures for Insomnia

A little personal information here (not to worry, not too much info)…I haven’t been sleeping well lately. My wife says it’s because of my over consumption of caffeine. My incredulous ...

Firefox to Chrome- Officially Time to Switch

Although I use Safari on my Mac Book Air, I’ve been a loyal Firefox user on my PC laptop. I’ve looked at switching to Chrome for over a year, but ...

Tools for Determining Keyword Relevancy: Part 3

Basics: Ranks.nl webtools include a free version of their Keyword Density Analyzer. Currently, they are up to version 3.1 and include some very useful features. Using the tool is straighforward. ...

Tools for Determining Keyword Relevancy: Part 2

Dave Naylor’s Keyword Density Tool is another tool that many SEOs recommend while doing on-page analysis. It helps to determine how relevant a page is for a given keyword phrase. ...

Tools for Determining Relevancy: Part 1

SEOmoz Term Target Tool (Now On-Page Keyword Optimization) Basics: SEOmoz has a lot of fantastic SEO tools and one that we utilize quite a bit at Gravitate Online is their ...

Google Got Beat Up in High School

Let’s get one thing straight…Google is filled largely with engineering dorks.  Recently I saw this video by Google as they try really hard to make dorky things look pretty cool. ...

404 Errors: Soft vs. Hard

Traditional (Hard) 404 Errors Simply put, 404 errors are ‘Not Found‘ error message. It is the standard HTTP response code, indicating that communication was made with the server but the ...

SEO Kryptonite Showdown Part 3: Frames

Frame Kryptonite What are Frames? HTML Frames define one particular window or frame within a frameset. The <frame> tag allow the site creators to add documents or an independent window ...

SEO Kryponite Showdown Part 2: JavaScript

JavaScript Kryptonite What is JavaScript? Used to create dynamic, interactive user experiences on websites, JavaScript is a programming language that runs on the site visitors computer, meaning it’s client side ...

SEO Kryptonite Showdown Part 1: Flash

What Makes for SEO Kryptonite? Any type of site code technology that is difficult for Google to read may be considered SEO Kryptonite. Google is getting better at reading all ...

Making Google Searches Bend to Your Will

Custom Google Search Commands Want to bend Google’s search results to your evil, maniacal ends? Or…just for some good SEO research? Either way, Google offers several helpful custom query options ...

Site Navigation for SEO: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Site Navigation Approaches When it comes to site navigation, there are lots of good, bad and ugly ways to help users and search engines find their way around your site. ...

Microsoft Purchases Skype: Benjamin Linus Rears His Ugly Head

Less than a week ago, I summarized a rumor going around the tech industry that Facebook and Google were courting Skype. Like Jack and Sawyer going after Kate. Well, as ...

Meta Descriptions: For SEO or Visitors?

Simply put, metadata is data that describes other data. Webpages include metadata–called meta tags–that describe the content on the page. These include the Meta Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords. ...

One email a month on what is working in Utah search

Tactics we are testing, results we are seeing. No filler.