Posted May 5, 2010 by Spartacus under under
SEO Techniques,
Search Engines
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 [...]
Posted June 2, 2009 by admin under under
SEO Techniques,
Search Engines
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 [...]
Posted April 5, 2009 by Spartacus under under
Internet,
SEO Techniques
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 [...]
Posted January 16, 2009 by Spartacus under under
SEO Techniques
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 [...]
Posted January 9, 2009 by Spartacus under under
SEO Techniques,
Web Design & Hosting
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 [...]
Posted December 15, 2008 by Spartacus under under
SEO Techniques,
Web Design & Hosting
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 [...]
Posted December 12, 2008 by Spartacus under under
SEO Techniques
The Google algorithm is said to be made up of several hundred factors which ultimately determine a page’s PR (Page Rank).
It is also said to be named after Larry Page, one of the founders of Google!
Google themselves describe Google PR as follows:
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast [...]
Posted December 11, 2008 by Spartacus under under
SEO Techniques
As a website developer, there are some guidelines that you should stick to. I am going to outline the most basic elements of SEO below - It’s a long document, so give yourself around 10 minutes to read it.
Read On…
Website TITLE Tag:
Your website TITLE tag is the second most important SEO element after your domain [...]