For those with a website, it can be an interesting and sometimes amusing experience to see what people have typed into search engines to get to your site. Some of the things are so wide of the mark you wonder how you have appeared in a search for that term Of my current search terms […]
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After repeatedly fixing up themes for SEO reasons, it gets a bit depressing that theme makers are not switched on about the basics. A common occurance is when the title of the site and the description of the site is formatted with H1 and H2 tags, these tags are important for search engine optimisation purposes.
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Over the last few weeks there has been plenty of stories backwards and forwards about the quality of Google\’s results, specifically that the quality is going down. Google counter in an official blog post to counter that specifially by saying that search quality is better than ever (though conceding a short term increase recently) Penned
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Here is an interetsing video from Matt Cutts of Google with Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand, talking about future trends for search in 2011. They talk about the increased importance of social media in influencing ranking. While still small, it shows a shift towards social as a means of determining importance of content on the web. Towards the
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I get this question a lot, especially as I am doing many more blogs and CMS run sites. I am definitely not in favour of blogging for frequencies sake. You need to make sure that the content you are adding is of value to your readers. Think of these options for content: Is it new?
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I love the Webpronews Videos, a great source of info, especially from presenters of Search and Marketing conferences. This one with Bruce Clay, at 18 minutes long, is a great discussion around search, how it has grown, broadened in it\’s nature to include Interactive Marketing and Optimisation on many levels. He makes a few key
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I was asked by a client if he thought getting a .co address was worthwhile. To be honest I hadnt heard of any new TLD that had been created (TLD means Top Level Domain, ie .com, .net plus country codes like .nz) In fact it is actually the Columbian country code that has been opened
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Internet Explorer 6 is an old browser, in internet terms it is a dinosaur. Released in 2001, it has been the mainstay of peoples internet experience over the last 9 years. The masses are often reluctant to change unless something pushes them along. Firstly, Firefox gave users a good alternative browser to use (Better in
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Well as usual, the run up to Christmas was frenetic with lots of things to get done before the break. It has been quiet for the last few days as many clients in this part of the world are either on holiday, or are in the Tourism industry and are working hard during the peak
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I have recently moved a site over from an ASP content management system to Joomla. One of the tricky things was creating the redirects for the pages on the old site to the new. Normally this is easy enough when you are redirecting a static page to another static page. Unfortuntely the mod_rewrite in Apache
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