filed in Blogging, SEO on Jun.30, 2009
Recently, Matt Cutts (head of webspam at Google) announced that they have changed the way that nofollow links are used. Â In fact, the way that Google have treated these links changed nearly a year ago but they only got around to announcing it now. For most people, this doesn’t matter at all but for those [...]
filed in Uncategorized on Jun.25, 2009
Habitat is a pretty well respected brand here in the UK but they have made the most astounding clanger with the use of Twitter and hashtags. Hashtags are words that you paste onto the end of your tweets to add to a larger conversation. Â The way it works is that people will use Twitter Search [...]
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filed in Misc, Website Design on Jun.24, 2009
I was speaking with my good friend yesterday, the marketing guru Jim Connolly and we got onto the topic of affiliate programmes. Â Jim was telling me that while affiliate programmes are very common online, they also work just as well offline. Â In fact, they can be even more powerful offline simply because personal recommendations between [...]
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filed in Misc, Website Design on Jun.23, 2009
I’ve been on the web since 1995 and have seen websites evolve from when the default background colour was grey through to today where anything goes. Â My very first website had a highly classy ‘repeating cloud’ background which I thought was fantastic at the time. Â However, looking back, this may not have been the case! [...]
filed in SEO, Social Networking on Jun.22, 2009
There are thousands of self-proclaimed experts on Twitter but there are very few actual experts that are worth following for their SEO advice. However, having been very active on Twitter for over a year now, I’ve built up a list of people who use Twitter to hand out solid SEO advice (amongth other things) and [...]
filed in Marketing on Jun.19, 2009
Take a look at this short piece on the BBC news website. Â http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8108319.stm At the moment it’s the fifth most popular article on the BBC news site and you can be sure that it’ll be picked up in hundreds of other websites, tweeted about, covered in many social media websites and generally talked about all [...]
filed in Google, SEO on Jun.11, 2009
The world of search engine optimisation has become so competitive (and lucrative) that for many years now, there have been many dodgy techniques employed to help push websites further up the rankings. Generally, these techniques are far beyond Google’s terms of service and are commonly referred to as ‘Black Hat SEO’. Instead of writing good [...]
filed in Blogging, SEO on Jun.09, 2009
One old SEO technique that I still see is that of blog commenting. Â Years ago, it was an easy way to generate links to your website. Â All you had to do was leave a comment on a blog and either add your website to the comment or populate the URL field. Â Either way, you’d [...]
filed in Misc on Jun.02, 2009
According to Mashable and various other reports throughout the internet, China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, WordPress, Hotmail, YouTube, Blogger and a host of other websites. Apparently this is down to the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananment Square Massacre in 1989. The Chinese authorities obviously don’t want their people to be exposed to alternative versions [...]