Author: Michael David

About Michael David

Michael David is the founder, current CEO, and lead strategist at TastyPlacement, based in Austin, Texas. He is the author of "WordPress 3.0 Search Engine Optimization" with the prestigious IT publisher, Packt Publishing. TastyPlacement performs search marketing campaigns, public relations, search engine optimization, social media consulting and online advertising for companies in a wide range of fields.

Entries by Michael David

SEO Power Tip: Don’t Park Your Extra Domains

June 15, 2010/2 Comments/in SEO Power Tools/by Michael David

This power tip looks at what to do with all those extra domain names–how to get a few bucks a month from your parked domains and how to earn ranking power down the road when you finally do go live.

Google Secure Search: Enhanced Privacy Tool That Che Guevara Would Love

May 24, 2010/0 Comments/in SEO/by Michael David

Today, Google offered a new feature to enhance its already-robust search capabilities: Secure Search. Google is the first major search engine to offer search in a secure setting. Pictured below, the secure search works and looks just like traditional search, but operates on SSL (secure socket layer), and can be found here: https://www.google.com. The “https” […]

SEO Power Tool: Test Your Website’s Load Time

April 28, 2010/0 Comments/in SEO Power Tools/by Michael David

If you haven’t tested your website’s load time–do it now, because Google is going to test it for you. Google has confirmed long ago that webpage load times will be used as a factor in the calculation of its AdWords Quality Score index–meaning that a faster load time can save you money on your AdWords […]

How to Insert Images into WordPress Posts and Pages

March 24, 2010/4 Comments/in WordPress/by Michael David

How to Insert Images into WordPress Posts and Pages Inserting images into WordPress posts and pages can usually trip up new users–we get asked about this a lot. Once you do it a few times succesfully, though, you’ll feel like a master. What follows is a quick and dirty overview of how to do it. […]

Web Tour: Early Websites of Internet Giants

June 26, 2009/0 Comments/in Web Design/by Michael David

I like to play around with Way Back Machine – the site that archives screen shots of websites in years past. We’ve put together a little tour of early versions of now-ubiquitous websites. We think you’ll enjoy this little web tour. So, put on some Pearl Jam (they were hot in 1998) and set your […]

Why SEO Campaigns Take Time

June 1, 2009/4 Comments/in SEO/by Michael David

This article examines the nuts and bolts of why an SEO or link building campaign does not necessarily yield immediate benefits.