All Posts Tagged With: "SEO"

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Case Study: Aftermath Of Moving A Domain Using 301 Redirects

In the past I’ve toyed with purchasing connectedinternet.com, as I feel that not buying a .com address was my biggest ever blogging mistake. However, the owner asked for a ridiculous amount and now that connectedinternet.co.uk is well established, I doubt that I would benefit from the move.

11Jul2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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Google Finally Catches Up With John Chow Linkback Promotion

Well, it looks like John Chow has added Google to the list of companies he’s pushed too far with his experiments. John was running a linkback promotion where in return for sites linking to his site and including the anchor text ‘Make Money Online’ he would link to those sites. In total about [...]

30Jun2007 | Everton | 24 comments | Continued
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Backlash Against Large Sites Using NoFollow Begining?

Even though it’s rare that I add new plugins these days, I still subscribe to the feed from WordPress Plugins DB. One plugin caught my eye yesterday, which appears to have been designed to counter big sites like Wikipedia not giving link love.
The WordPress Blog SEO plugin automatically adds the ‘nofollow’ tag to [...]

26Jun2007 | Everton | 14 comments | Continued
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Why Choosing A Good Domain Name Is Important

I know it’s been said many times, but I’m going to say it one more time - spending 10 minutes thinking about your blog’s Domain Name before you make your purchase is really important. Not only can it help with Search Engine Optimisation if your Domain Name includes important keywords for your site, but [...]

21Jun2007 | Everton | 11 comments | Continued
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Serious About Blogging? Then Read This Post About Google PageRanks (Twice!)

Almost every blogger and site owner is obsessed about their Google PageRank. The problem is, no-one can say for certain exactly how it works and Google are fairly quiet on the subject, so that the algorithm doesn’t get abused. It would probably be the biggest online joke ever if Google PageRank’s played no [...]

9Jun2007 | Everton | 11 comments | Continued
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How To Market Your Website For Only $100

Every-time I look into spending some money promoting my site, I always end up putting my chequebook away. I have tried a few experiments like buying text-link-ads to take advantage of the $100 in free links, but never anything major like creating adwords campaigns.
If you are on a tight budget then this may be a [...]

7Jun2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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How To Get Traffic From Yahoo And Other Search Engines?

Even though Google is the most popular search engine with 55% market share in the US and 75% market share in the UK, I still can’t work out why I get next to no traffic from Yahoo and other search engines.
Over the last month according to Google Analytics my top 5 traffic sources have been [...]

25May2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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List Of Search Engine Ranking Factors

In what must be one of the most useful posts of the year for any aspiring blogger, Carsten from Search Engine Journal has pulled together a simplified version of the monster Search Engine Ranking Factors document, which contained the opinions of 37 SEO experts. I’ve pasted the full table below.

28Apr2007 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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How Many Feeds Do You Read? Here Are My Top 10 Feeds

Towards the end of last week and over the weekend I didn’t really get a chance to clear out my feeds in Google Reader, due to going out a lot, my router dying and also building a HTPC over the weekend.
Yesterday morning I was faced with hundreds of unread items. Before doing what I [...]

17Apr2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Adding A Robots.txt File Has Increased My Google Traffic By 16% In 4 Days

I finally got around to adding a Robots.txt file on Sunday and already my Google Traffic has gone up by 16% in only 4 days. I’m amazed that such a small change as adding a robots.txt file has had such an impact.
Although I asked a month ago for advice on adding a robots.txt file [...]

12Apr2007 | Everton | 48 comments | Continued
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