Create Sitemaps and use a Sitemap Index

By Decisive Design | January 3, 2012 |

Sitemaps are often overlooked when creating a website, largely because most are unaware of the benefits and process. Having a properly formatted sitemap index and sitemap files that are also submitted to Google WebmasterTools will result in increased indexed pages, which means Google (and other search engines) have greater visibility of your website that they…

Make Joomla Article Titles H1 and H2 Tags for SEO

By Decisive Design | January 3, 2012 |

The article titles on your Joomla website are probably not optimized to their full potential. More specifically, they aren’t H1 tags on the article pages and H2 tags on the category, section, and home pages. They also don’t have title attributes in the href links on the category, section and home pages. These header tags…

Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance

By Decisive Design | August 22, 2011 |

Lets take a few minutes and discuss what the Site Performance section of Google Webmaster Tools is all about and whether or not we should be putting any stock into its data.

Adding Your Website to Google Webmaster Tools

By Decisive Design | May 26, 2010 |

If you’ve landed on this article, chances are you heard about Google Webmaster Tools and are either looking for more information or wanting to utilize (“install”) it for your site. No problem – it’s really pretty easy, and you’ll be up and running in no time if you follow these simple steps.