Posted by Eugen OpreaThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Do you know what is the most common question that I get every day on social media, forums or email? "How to get insights about my Google Analytics data?" People approach me saying that they have a Google Analytics account for years, but they look only at page views or the number of visitors they get. And this is...

Your latest PHP/MySQL website is finally online. And it’s awesome. But it’s not as fast as you want it to be, because of the many SQL queries running every time a page is generated. And above that, you have the feeling it will not scale well under heavy loads. And you are most likely right. In this tutorial, we will see how you can greatly improve your website’s responsiveness, and help it scale to handle many simultaneous visitors, by implementing a cache layer between your code and your database. The good news is it is fairly easy, and can be done...

In my opinion, on site optimization should be the first phase in any SEO campaign. What is the point of building great inbound links if your site isn’t ready to convert visitors? A sloppy navigation structure, weak content and limited call-to-actions aren’t going to help your online business grow, not matter how good your offsite link building is. With Christmas just 48 hours away, I thought I’d bring up the flipside of failing to optimize your website—over optimization. And the easiest way to over optimize your website is to stuff it full of keywords, as if you were...

How long ago did you last sit down and go through your website with a fine toothed SEO comb and optimize each page? If you’ve been actively engaged in a link building campaign for the last few years, it’s probably been a while, right? On site optimization, in my opinion, should be the first phase in any SEO campaign. After all, what good is an increase in traffic to a site that isn’t prepared to convert? (But that’s an argument for another day!) However, if all your recent SEO efforts have been focused on link building that may mean it’s...

We’ve covered quite a bit of Python in the previous tutorials in this Session. Today, we’re going to combine everything we’ve learned so far to build a dynamic website with Python. Prefer a Video Tutorial? Watch more video tutorials on YouTube. So, how do you get started creating websites with Python? Well, you could do it all yourself, and write a program that runs on a web server, accepting page requests and serving up responses in the form of HTML and other resources. However, that’s a lot of work, so why go to all the trouble when there are...