The First Signs of Recovery Came Early After being struck down by Panda on April 11th 2011 I got to work and made a whole bunch of on-site changes. I made a small recovery quickly, however, soon learned that there was still a lot of work to do. Apr 19, 2011 Glad to report...
Another video of Google’s search expert Matt Cutts. In this one he provides tips to “make a great site” but speaks mostly about simple SEO. Once again he supports WordPress, and basically says that if you use WordPress you do not need to do anything else, as it is great for SEO. At the...
This blog called also be called “How To Spot A Crap Directory“. I have Google Alerts set up to tell me whenever a new niche directory comes online. Today a promising one appeared, but it soon proved to be a waste of time, so I did not submit my details. The “in yer face”...
In short, forever. I often see people asking similar question to this on SEO forums. There is often then a lengthly debate about how long you should maintain a 301. I have no idea why people debate this topic, it is simple, a 301 is a permanent redirect, so should be left in place permanently. Today...
There are many websites that now provide a grading service for your site. Some are focussed on SEO and marketing and some are strictly for web design and coding. Many of these sites provide traffic statistics on other sites, however none of them have access to the web logs. So how accurate are they? Are some...
Just spotted a new Google search feature – Wonder Wheel. After typing in your search term you can press “Wonder Wheel” down the left hand side. It shifts the search results to the right and gives your a wheel of options, alternative searches. You can then click one, it will display results for that...
Just seen the new Google search feature that shows website previews (screenshot) in the results. You have to click a little magnifying glass, then it opens a page previews. I first heard about it over at Fudwatch.co.uk 4 days ago, but at the time I was not seeing the results. It may still be...
This method is guaranteed to get your website onto the first page of the Google results, if you are already on the top 100 results. It is a cunning SEO’s trick that uses the features of the Google configuration settings to make your site (or any website you like!) appear on the first page...
I have just been analysing the stats in Google Webmaster tools for one of my sites and just spotted a very suspicious trend. Between 4th Sept and 4 Oct 2010 one site received 2400 Google search referrals on 16 occasions. Each time the number of search impressions varied. Also, it received 1900 search referrals...
Google are recruiting younger talent in a bid to maintain their competitive advantage during these difficult times. When we asked the new director what changes he was planning to implement during 2009, he responded with; “Google google ooooh google bear nana nana.” – New Google Search Engine Operations Director
I just stumbled across this little gem from Stanford. It provides a list of features a website should have to boost its credibility. I saw it on a Googler’s social bookmarking page, and whenever you see something like that, assume that it is at least considered to be part of the search engine algorithm....
I received an interesting email today from a Facebook group that I am a member of. This is it: Dear Members, This may sound a bit cheeky but we need your help to get us further up the rankings on Google…. Please visit this link: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=florist+basildon&start=120&sa=N&fp=a73fa2ac306dd28e we are near the bottom of page 13...
Do any other WordPress users think that the All in One SEO Pack is updated too often? It is an excellent plugin that enhances the CMS really well, but I seem to be forever installing a new version. Why? Maybe I should ask the chaps over at Semper Fi Web Design.
I was just reviewing some old contributed articles on one of my sites, and noticed that the URL provided by one author was no longer active (just a domain holding page). This surprised me, as the author produced some good work. The author in question is Tracie Johanson. According to her bio on Associatedcontent.com,...
“I recently published my first website” That says it all. How recently? How many pages? How many links coming in? Plenty of unique, well written content? Relevant to theme of site? It takes time. You may be in a very competitive market. There a millions of websites out there now. You need links. And...
(in case you are wondering why there is such a big banner showing "Weboligist" here, let me explain - it is to prevent the image below appearing every time a page is shared on Facebook!).
