This post is a response to a recent commenter that was wondering how many keywords they should put in their metatags.

I have heard lots of different numbers tossed around as far as what your keyword density (the percentage that a word or phrase takes up out of the total number of words on a page) should be, this is not just specifically for meta tags, but for your overall page content. About 1-5% is a number that seems to be pretty common and there are even programs out there that will analyze your keyword density (just Google it and you’ll find some).
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Filed under: SEO by Bennett-Burks
57 Comments » Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 and is filed under SEO

Whether you are a web-designer, or graphic designer, there’s probably been times that you’ve been at a loss as far as just what colors to use in your next project. Even if you have a basic idea, Adobe Kuler can be a useful resource.
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Filed under: web design by Bennett-Burks
16 Comments » Monday, April 5th, 2010 and is filed under web design

Perhaps you are new to website design, or had someone build a site for you. Maybe your site has been indexed on Yahoo, and Google, so you expect site visitors to start rolling in by the hundreds. You start watching your site statistics only to see a few visitors here and there, which is probably not nearly as many as you expected.

No doubt search engines are an important part of gaining site visitors, but they can easily be over relied on. Getting the number of visitors that you want to your website can take a whole lot more than just getting your site indexed by search engines.

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Filed under: SEO by Bennett-Burks
47 Comments » Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 and is filed under SEO