Six Revisions have posted an artile looking at how to optimise your wordpress website to get more traffic from Google. If you have a wordpress website or want to know more about SEO and what is involved then the article is worth a read.
Here are the main points that the article makes.
1) Make sure that the [...]
Google has started offering real time search results for searches. If you try searching for “Copenhagen”, then you will find a search box like the image below that updates with the latest web results, comments and posts about the Copenhagen summit.
The results box is updated every couple of seconds with new results from Twitter or [...]
A good article on what are the primary ranking factors for websites is here http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/seo/update-to-seomoz-seo-ranking-factors/ The sumary was that the following percentages were what was though the search engines placed most weight on:
24% Trust / Authority of domain name
22% Link popularity of specific page
20% Anchor text of external links
15% On page keyword use
7% Traffic and [...]
I am working on the SEO for a site about Irish fine art prints called perquisites. We have changed the website to have a faster loading front page and changed the title and meta tags to reflect what the website is about. Working with different projects is always interesting and it will be interesting to [...]
I am working on a website seo and website imrpovement for a company that provide warehouse management systems for leading companies in the UK. Hopefully I can improve the position in the search engines and make the website work for the client.
http://www.warehousemanagementsystemsuk.co.uk/
An article about how the Google algorithm works. A useful post on SEOmoz explains some of the way Google works using charts to explain the link between links and rankings.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-algorithm-pretty-charts-math-stuff
Techcrunch posted an interview with Steve Ballmer of Microsoft talking about the future of Microsoft and where they are going and other things like the cloud and Twitter.
He also talks about the future of search and that he thinks the next five years will see more inovation in search. With bing starting to gain search [...]
A useful article has been written by Grant Simmons on imediaconnection.com, that is worth a read if you are interested in getting your website higher in search engines.
It includes how to measure a search campaign and clicks, and gives a quick guide to what things like bounce rate and pageviews mean in analytics.
If you are [...]
A client was asking questions today about ranking for various keywords and should they try and get their website on the search engines for specific words. I get asked this somethimes and so thought I would do a quick blog post about it, to explain my point of view.
First what are keywords and keyphrases?
Well a [...]
We just got a client to number 1 in google search rankings, hurry. Isn’t it great when you can get someone to the top of the most used search engine and get a hole load of traffic for the client. I cannot say who or what the keywords were so not to let the competition [...]