search-engine-optimisation

Tweet I have now been messing about on the Internet for about 3 1/2 years. I have over 30 domains under my belt now. This sounds like a success. It …

Google Penguin 4.0 is now an official part of Google’s Core Algorithm. The announcement that Penguin now runs in real time within the core search algorithm means that the latest …

Tweet It’s Friday, so time for some more lighthearted web based sillyness. I got some amusing old fashioned spam today. Someone wanted to be my friend on Facebook. Aaah, isn’t …

Angry spammer Today somebody left a comment on a website I manage. The page they left the comment on was reviewing a new service in the industry that launched in …

SEO Novice – 57% I just took the SEOMoz SEO quiz, and scored 57% which means that I am still an SEO Novice. Here are my results: #1 Which of …

Tweet Yes. OK, I probably need to elaborate. A few years ago some SEO’s I was speaking to felt that a Google sitemap, i.e. placing a sitemap.xml on your site …

OK, in previous years people have suggested that everyone should be doing Christmas campaigns to win more traffic etc at the busiest shopping time. Christmas is fast approaching, so apart …

This is weird. Email just received: From: [email protected] Date Submitted: 2/9/2008 Your website is due for a yearly review. All listings aging over twelve months in GoGuides require a yearly human …

Local Activities To Enjoy In San Jose When Attending SMX Events Local activities to enjoy before or after the SMX event in San Jose, California. Unwind with some water park …

Tweet Infographics graphics are still a buzzword in the SEO industry. Initially infographics were used by SEO’s specifically to generate natural links for a website. The idea is twofold really: …

X-Men: First Class, the latest X Men film, is releasing its trailer today on Facebook. It’s Facebook group is facebook.com/xmenmovies. The latest X-Men movie goes back to when Charles Xavier …

Yes. OK, I probably need to elaborate. A few years ago some SEO’s I was speaking to felt that a Google sitemap, i.e. placing a sitemap.xml on your site and …

Matthew Barby (his Twitter pic) Link building is still a major part of an SEO’s job. Google says that we must build natural links – Google does not say that …

Tweet I have been messing about on the Internet for a few years now. Due to my complete lack of technical skills I naturally fell into blogging and building up …

LinkedIn is now the major player in professional social networking. But other free or trimmed down alternatives are emerging. Here we look at three that are worth considering. Zerply Zerply.com …

OK, I have now been messing about with website for almost two years, which really means that I am still a novice in this field, although a very keen novice …

Yesterday a strange thing happened on the internet – well on Google, but for many, Google *is* the internet. All searches made on the Google search engine were labelled as “This …

I received an interesting email today from a Facebook group that I am a member of. This is it: Dear Members, This may sound a bit cheeky but we need …

“I recently published my first website” That says it all. How recently? How many pages? How many links coming in? Plenty of unique, well written content? Relevant to theme of …

I just stumbled across this little gem from Stanford. It provides a list of features a website should have to boost its credibility. I saw it on a Googler’s social …

There are many websites that now provide a grading service for your site. Some are focussed on SEO and marketing and some are strictly for web design and coding. Many of these …

Since the whole Panda / Penguin thing (totally different, but get bundled together all the time now) people have started to ask some pretty dumb questions. The newest question I …

OK, I finally moved to a better platform for my newsletters. I was using PHPList, but was getting very annoyed with it as it took forever to send out emails …

One thing that continues to puzzle many bloggers, web authors and site owners, is when to use rel=”nofollow” within links to external sites, and when to leave it out. And …