I read an interesting article on SEOmoz this morning about how ‘Author rank’ might start to have a direct influence on search engine ranking positions in the near future. It is lengthy and I won’t try to summarise it here, but I’d highly recommend you take the time to read it. I http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-prepare-for-authorrank-and-get-the-jump-on-google Author rank [...]
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It’s starting to happen. I knew it would and I’ve started to see it. In there never ending efforts to ram Google+ down our throats Google have taken to merging Google+ and Google Places. The result is Google+ Local. If you don’t have a presence on Google+ then your business could potentially be missing out. [...]
YouTube optimisation
Posted: 17th September 2012 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: seo, video, youtube
I’ve learnt some interesting tidbits lately. Namely that search engine optimisation is not just some you do exclusively to websites, but also to videos. I was reading an article on SEOmoz about YouTube ranking factors and it highlighted some interesting points. I won’t go into all of them as you can read the main article [...]
Google spanks website owners
Posted: 27th October 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: content, google panda, seo
SEO news is often chattering about various Google Panda updates causing changes in algorithms and thus fluctuations in search engine rankings. In laymans terms this means your website will see less traffic and potential customers and it might not be anything you’ve done (or not done). These Google Panda updates might as well be called [...]
301 redirecting fun!
Posted: 11th July 2011 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings, SEOTags: 301 redirect, seo
Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ageandanniesramblings\.co.uk RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.insertclevertitle.co.uk/$1 [R=permanent,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ageandanniesramblings\.co.uk RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.insertclevertitle.co.uk/$1 [R=permanent,L] Finally cracked it! Here’s the code that needed to go in the .htaccess file. So basically, both URLs (domains) now point to the same DNS. Then on the old site (ageandanniesramblings) I added the above code to [...]
Top *insert number* SEO resources
Posted: 16th June 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: seo, website optimisation
Ah, the wonderful world of SEO, it’s an enigmatic beast and a constant battle against the monster that is Google. But there are a few tools/resources/websites out there that you can use to give you a helping hand in getting your website seen and increasing the traffic. I thought I’d list a few, just for [...]
Site Speed and SERPs
Posted: 19th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: seo, SERPS, site speed
Google believe that site speed is important. It was recently announced that a site’s load speed can have an impact on search engine ranking positions. Many designers and ‘web’ people are aware of this. Interesting articles over at Distilled (Site Speed For Dummies Part 1- Why Bother and Site Speed For Dummies Part 2 – [...]
Clever link building with FREE iPad2
Posted: 28th April 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: apple, ipad, link building, seo
A friend sent me this yesterday as he thought I might like to write a blog article and get a chance to win an iPad2, little did he know I hate Apple. However, I do appreciate a clever bit of marketing and in this case, a sneaky link building campaign. Playpennies are offering the chance [...]
A pointless exercise in link building?
Posted: 17th March 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: link building, Reciprocal link building, seo
Anyone that knows anything about SEO knows that links are key to success. Links from other websites are seen as votes for your content. A nod of approval, if you will. The more links the better. The better quality the links, the more effective the vote. If you can get a Government, University or other [...]
Google vs Microsoft – the bitch fight
Posted: 7th February 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: Bing, google, seo
Google has been claiming (loudly) that Microsoft has been directly stealing its search results for use in their search engine Bing. According to Econsultancy (who sum it all up nicely) Google engineers used fake/nonsense websearches in order to prove that Bing was returning identical results and thus must be stealing. However, it is revealed that [...]