filed in Blogging, Social Networking on Feb.27, 2009
Tad over at the SEOptimise blog has collected together a great list of blog posts about Twitter, including 15 great tools and how to use Twitter for business. Â I’d recommend taking some time to check it out if you’re trying to get the most out of Twitter. Â In fact, it’s worth looking at it [...]
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filed in SEO on Feb.27, 2009
While browsing the Guardian website I came across a story which had this fantastic URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/feb/23/honda-formula-one-bernie-ecclestone-richard-branson-jenson-button-bruno-senna-mercedes-benz The aim of having such a huge URL is that when someone links to the story (just like I’ve done), the anchor text is full of nice rich keywords which should help the website’s SEO. Â Whilst I can’t [...]
filed in Google, SEO on Feb.26, 2009
I’m going to give you the single most important piece of search engine optimisation advice you’ll ever get. I’ve seen clients move up 30 places in Google by doing this one thing. I’ve had clients that have moved to the first page of Google JUST by doing this one thing. And it is so simple [...]
filed in Blogging, Google, Misc on Feb.24, 2009
Gmail, usually one of the most reliable email site on the Internet has been down for a few hours today. Â Google has taken a bit of a beating for not responding within an acceptable time (3 hours). I don’t use my Gmail as my primary email account so I’ve not really suffered but one [...]
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filed in Blogging, Social Networking on Feb.24, 2009
I’ve a strong advocate of linking to other blogs – not just to get links back (although that is a very nice side-effect) but also because I want to share information with my blog readers if I think it’s useful. However, if you’re linking out to other blogs in order to get them to link [...]
filed in Blogging, Marketing, SEO on Feb.20, 2009
Many small businesses are now incorporating blogs into their websites and are seeing some amazing results! What is a Blog? A blog is a website, or an area of a website, that allows you to easily publish your own content. It’s usually much more informal than a business website, with a mix of articles, tips, [...]
filed in Social Networking on Feb.19, 2009
I’ve just registered another account on Twitter. Â Those of you that follow me (and if you don’t, you should!) will wonder why I need another account but it just dawned on my that my twitter username is my real name and not my business name. Up until about 5 minutes ago, there was nothing stopping [...]
filed in SEO on Feb.02, 2009
I was asked on Twitter to share some ‘best practice’ tips on web site title tags.  And so I did – in 4 tweets.  I thought that I’d share them with you as a very simple primer on how to start optimising the title tags on your website:  @GinaRubel Keep it under 66 characters, important [...]