Discovered this article today on “Most Essential Tips for Improving Response Time of Your WordPress Blog” good read with some useful tips. Most useful of which was the plugin Broken link checker. What an excellent WordPress plugin! It finds all broken links on your site and allows you to easily fix them with little hassle. [...]
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Essential WordPress plugins…
Posted: 1st February 2011 by Age in Interesting Discoveries, Ramblings, SEOTags: broken link checker, wordpress, wordpress plugins
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An interesting article about search neutrality
Posted: 28th January 2011 by Age in Ramblings, SEOTags: search neutrality, seo
Google is a thorn in my side. No one knows about how their algorithms work, what makes up the 200 factors that effect PageRank or how to truly beat the system – there’s good reason for that. Google (and the other major search engines) seek to provide the best possible results for the end-user. On [...]
Life is extremely subjective
Posted: 25th January 2011 by Age in SEOTags: content, people, seo, writing
In my current role I’ve learnt not to take things for granted. Life is extremely subjective. Just because I’d do something or not, doesn’t mean you or Johnny from the street would do the same. An example – the goal of a lot of things on our website (like many sites out there) is to [...]
Google PageRank updated in 2011 – you shouldn’t care
Posted: 21st January 2011 by Age in SEOTags: google, pagerank, seo
News from @sengineland (First Google Toolbar PageRank Update Of 2011) shows that Google have celebrated the new year by releasing an update to their infamous PageRank system. Many websites can now find out how Google currently rate their website by staring lustily at that little green bar in the Google toolbar add-on for your favourite [...]
Yesterday I wrote about guest blogging and how it can or might be beneficial, but as I went to publish a guest blog post I realised there might be a problem. How can you be sure that what your guest Blogger wrote is 100% their own work? They might be stealing someone else’s article and [...]
Is guest blogging worth the trouble?
Posted: 20th January 2011 by Age in Ramblings, SEO, WritingTags: blogging, content writing, link building, seo
At work I’ve been beavering away on a long-term link building campaign. Links are a pain to get manually. Sure you can submit to free directories, post on forums, be active on Twitter, comment on blogs, but all those things are of minimal impact in SEO terms. In an ideal world, you’d write spiffing content [...]
I was always lead to believe that adding links to other sites without a “nofollow” was a bad idea as it drains pagerank from your site and could hurt your SERP if you linked to a dodgy site. I have recently discovered this is a half-truth. Linking to potentially dodgy sites is risky and if [...]
Using Twitter to pimp your content – it really works
Posted: 4th December 2010 by Age in SEOTags: seo, twitter
The other day I wrote a simple article about how I enjoyed a bit of zombie killing on Red Dead Redemption, as usual my post was automatically tweeted on my Twitter account (@Age_Dub) for the world and their mother to see. Rockstar games, the actual developer of the game actively monitor their brand and often [...]
SEO link building – Quantity vs Quality
Posted: 23rd November 2010 by Age in SEOTags: backlinks, llink building, quality links are more important you tit, seo
Yesterday I was working on producing a competitor analysis/SEO report for a client. The software I use is a nifty little tool called “Market Samurai”. It should be noted now that Market Samurai uses the most awful marketing content I’ve ever seen (don’t just take my word for it, follow the link) but they do [...]