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 Google, SEO, Website Design on Jan.23, 2009
One of the first recommendations I’ll make to businesses looking to increase traffic to their website is that they set up a blog. There are a number of reasons for this – it allows you to capture “long tail” searches for a start. Â But (assuming you are diligent enough) it also gives you a way [...]
filed in Blogging, Google, SEO on Dec.04, 2008
One of the things I’m always surprised about is the sheer variety of search terms that people use to find my website. Recently I wrote a very brief post about the impact of the recent VAT changes in the UK and how it would likely affect small businesses. Â I didn’t actually write it with the [...]
filed in Google, Misc, SEO on Dec.02, 2008
I was checking out some of my competitor’s websites a few days ago (something I recommend that you do periodically) and was amazed to see that some of them were still offering a ‘search engine submission’ service. There may have been some value in this service back in 1997 but to offer this as a [...]
filed in Techie on Sep.05, 2008
I’ve been using Google Chrome now for a few days and I really like it. I’m a bit behind the times with posting a review but I wanted to take a few days to get used to it and see how I found it. So this is more of a considered review rather than first [...]
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filed in Misc, Techie on Sep.05, 2008
As you probably know (in fact, it’s almost impossible to avoid it) – Google launched a new web browser on September 2nd called Google Chrome. The implications for Firefox are pretty immense since the early techie adopters form the main user base for Firefox. These same people are the people most likely to move to [...]
filed in Marketing, SEO on Sep.04, 2008
Whenever I speak about SEO, I generally always talk about Google rather than Yahoo, Live, Ask or whatever. I’ve been told that I should refer to search engines generically, and that’s good advice, but I think I can be forgiven when you look at the market share that Google has. In the UK, Google controls [...]
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filed in Google, SEO on Jul.25, 2008
Matt Cutts (Google’s head search spam fighting honcho) has announced that they’ve updated their Google Toolbar PageRank values and you can expect to see the changes in the next couple of days. You mayt be wondering what Toolbar PR is and how this change will affect you. Most SEOs will tell you that it’s totally [...]