At Abraxas we spend a fair amount of time doing research & development projects. R&D is a big part of keeping up with the latest SEO trends and concepts as well keeping our Web design and development up to par. While we won’t blog about all of our R&D nor will we reveal every detail about our experiments and findings, we do feel that it is important to discuss some of the aspects of our more public oriented projects.

Our latest project is a Web site called HD Movie Trailers Online. This is the sister project to the music video site we discussed previously. This project has a similar approach, but with different goals and using some different SEO techniques. Not only are we trying some different (or at least refined) SEO techniques we took the opportunity to explore automation and simplification on the back end for CMS (content management system).

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The Rug Source in Dalton, GA wanted to launch a new site focused solely on their hospitality carpet business. We answered in kind by designing a simple Web site that relayed their message, made carpet products easy to access and searchable while giving them the power to maintain the Web site themselves via a CMS.

The Web site is expected to fully launch the last week of January.

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In the first weeks of January, Google began rolling out a new and more power version of their search engine, code named “Caffeine”.

Is your Web site up to snuff? Has your Web design company or developer taking into consideration the future of Google search and SEO in general? If you are using the World Wide Web as part of your business strategy or if you are trying to figure out how to incorporate a Web strategy, understanding what “Caffeine” has in store is important.

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As a Web designer and developer, Firefox has become my Web browser of choice. I’m not using Firefox because I hate Internet Explorer or because Google Chrome is Safari based. I use Firefox because it offers the best tools for my job of designing and developing search engine friendly Web sites. One of the reasons is that Firefox has a plugin interface which allows software developers to write “mini applications” that work within Firefox.

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2010 looks like it will be a big year for SEO (search engine optimization) with a lot of the web trends of 2009 such as Twitter making its way into SEO. 2009 seemed to be a dismal year for most every industry including SEO. With the US economy picking up and the ever increasing awareness of technology, we are looking forward to leaving 2009 behind us.

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