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Archive for September, 2006

Google Personlised Homepage Wierdness

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
[tag]Google[/tag] have sort of half implemented a tabs feature on the [tag]Google Personalised Homepage[/tag]. I know the Web 2.0 thing to do is to release early in beta but this is extracting the urine! Its a great feature that lets you have multiple homepages, each with a different label so y… read more

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Using text links for navigation

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
This thread at Web Master World relates to a post I did recently about using images on your web pages for what is essentially text. Its long been accepted from an [tag]accessibility[/tag] standpoint, that the use of html text in [tag]site navigation[/tag] (rather than gif images that contain graphi… read more

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Turning away search engines at the first opportunity

Monday, September 18th, 2006
Do you want to suffer in the Search Engine rankings? Not bothered that your competitors outrank you by a factor of 50? Do you want to keep that pesky Googlebot well and truly out of your site (after all it does eat an awful lot of unnecessary bandwidth)? Here's how: First you need a splash page. T… read more

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Does valid markup affect search performance?

Monday, September 11th, 2006
Many [tag]web developers[/tag] (particularly good ones) now code to standards laid out by the [tag]W3C[/tag]. There are many reasons to do this including faster page rendering times, more easily maintainable code and improvements in [tag]accessibility[/tag]. But does coding in well formed, valid mar… read more

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Google SiteLinks – Why do they appear and how are they generated?

Monday, September 11th, 2006
You may have noticed that from time to time, the top result in [tag]Google[/tag] has a series of links nested under the main result. This doesn't happen for every #1 result but when it does happen its really handy for users and great as an [tag]SEO[/tag] if it happens to be one of your clients! As a… read more

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