In many insances I use Adobe Dreamweaver. This is bacause of it’s instant-ftp upload facility which is ideal for wring and testing on the fly. One thing that became aparent yesterday was my Dreamweaver automatically sets the document encoding to ‘iso-8859-1′ and a great deal of the time we want to use ‘utf-8′.
Set ‘uft-8′ encoding [...]
Google, recently announced that site-speed is now an integral part of search engine rankings. This means that faster sites could rank better than slower websites!
Now Google haven’t quite said how much site speed is a factor in their search rankings algorithm, and have confirmed that quality content is still the most important thing, but they [...]
Okay, so as you will be aware, the last few days have seen the release of a new search engine from Microsoft called Bing. An exciting time for searchers and webmasters alike.
However, something that did occur to me is that we haven’t yet talked about how to track traffic from Bing in our favorite free [...]
Wow! What an extremely exciting time - a new search engine!
Every time a new search engine is released, they all seem to do exactly the same thing, look the same and feel the same. There’s no wonder that most of the world is using Google, it’s the simplest thing ever - a simple one line [...]
So over the last 4-5 days I have been hapily browsing, not noticing that the result at page one has site links.
So what’s so strange about that - you ask?
Well… as we all know, Google has site links for almost every website that sits at position one in the SERPS, but usually when the search [...]
This is an interesting subject that has been at the forefront of my SEO meetings all week. Page Rank dilution is when you are linking to what I call an ‘Overhead Page‘ from every other page on your website.
To follow me in this article you will need the following:
Firefox Browser
SEO Plugin for Firefox
I’m going to [...]
I used to rant on about a great piece of software called Multiple IE. It was like a life saving piece of software for designing websites with backward compatibility.
But since the Beta release of Internet Explorer 8, you have had the choice of either designing your website in IE7 or IE8 and doing a few [...]
Okay, so that was a bit of a title. But since I wanted it to cover every possible key phrase combination you could have possibly typed in to google I had to write it like that.
Anyway, on to the Firefox Tools:
The first and most important thing you will need to use these tools is the [...]
One thing that people completely forget when planing their SEO campaign is just how important their url structure is to their on-site Search Engine Optimisation.
Google’s webmaster guidelines say the following: (External Link)
A site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. Consider organizing your content so that URLs are constructed logically and in a manner [...]
After reading this article on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2’s new features which concentrates on it’s Private Browsing Feature, I thought I would elaborate a little on it’s other features.
The improvements and new features are as follows:
This beta is now available in 54 languagesThe offer for you to download your local version of Firefox and let [...]