Archive for the 'Search (SEO/SEM)' Category
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Yahoo! today announced support for a new <meta> tag which allows you to opt out of having Yahoo! directory snippets appearing under your natural search results in Yahoo! search. Up until now site owners had no control over whether the snippet text was taken from the [tag]Yahoo![/tag] directory…
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
The Google team have added a great new feature to the Google Webmaster Tools. The Links tab which has been added to the top nav in the GWT console allows you to view internal and external [tag]backlinks[/tag] to your site(s).
Google' link: command has been unreliable for some time, often returning …
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Jakob Nielsen has updated his Top ten mistakes in web design document for 2007 an its well worth a read. Nielsen is quite often seen as too "hard line" and his ideas are often seen as too restrictive to work in practice but I think this list of ideas and suggestions is something that every web devel…
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Google have updated the [tag]Google webmaster tools[/tag] (formerly known as [tag]Google Sitemaps[/tag]). The 4 updates provide even more transparency to webmasters/marketers trying to get ahead in Google.
Of the 4 updates, probably the most interesting (certainly from an e-commerce point of view…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
The Times have written a piece on the search/SEO industry, how its infiltrating mainstream marketing budgets and Search Optimisations' importance in the current marketing landscape:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2320062,00.html
Whilst it's interesting to read from an outsiders pers…
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Why using graphical fonts is a bad idea
Firstly, sorry jacque, I'm using you as an example but yours is a typical request and I thought I'd blog it after our discussion on MSN yesterday.
I quite often get requests for a corporate (or particular) font to be used for page/section headings in a web…
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
What's the most important place on a page for keyphrases in SEO?
This is a question I am often asked regarding on page optimisation. When a search engine algorithm ranks a page, where are the most 'powerful' places the search phrase can appear? In order of importance, this is a list of what I belie…
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