Category Archives: Search Engine Optimisation

What the Yell are you upto!

There are some days when I start to hate the ways of the online world, and Colin (who’s used to work with me over the  Equator SEO company and is now working for himself over at Boyd Digital) just posted about the hassles and pains he’s been having with Yell. Basically wasting his time with [...]

SEO, Noodles and Financial down Turns

As I’ve been off ill for couple of weeks I’ve been trying, mostly unsuccesfully to stay away from my PC. I did vow not to blog whilst at home – something I managed far too well for my own good I’m sure.
So I’ve came back from being sick and MSN has rebranded, almost every client [...]

Checking Alt attributes – Website Testing Series

One of the cool things in CSS is the ability to add styles to elements with certain attribute values – so you can style based upon the context of an HTML element. During website testing a useful thing to do is to test and make sure that images, where appropriate, have an alt attribute.
Having a [...]

Google.com – Any Time, Any Language, Any File

I’m not on google.com very often – most of my clients work in google.co.uk as their main traffic driver (as they’re in the UK) but today I was running some tests in google.com and I started to get different lopoking result sets:
 
So the bit in red is the part where I could refine my result [...]

LinkedIn Spamming

Dear god I cant take it. Sometimes I just wish that SEO’s didnt have to ‘piss in every fountain‘. Sometimes SEO is crass and nasty and kills the entire usefulness of the content. Other times it makes me laugh so hard I fear for my bodily inegrity:
See http://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonybaxter
SEO is mentioned 254 times (19.48% Keyword Density)*
I know [...]

You, Me, Carpark, NOW…

Always liked the ring of that phrase. Far better than ‘Hi, how are you?’. Anyway have been running about the web trying to work out WTF Google has been upto recently – results are so screwey its half cock up (think Chris Iwelumo against Norway) and half comedy show (Homer Simpson’s been left in charge [...]

Imagine Google being your Affiliate on your Programs

There is no point in getting too angry too often. And when it comes to PPC I rarely get angry or feel any other emotion. Everything in PPC can generally be scoped, planned, projected, dissected to within an inch of its ROI driven life. To me personally that makes it a bit dull – its [...]

Are Link Directories any use?

I’m going to test them and see
I’ve always used link directories. They’re quick and cheap ways to get links. But that’s the problem – if they’re cheap, easy and quick that means the links they deliver are usually of really low quality. Unless you’ve got a reasonably old website with a bit of good history, [...]

Does everyone know what Search Engine Optimization is?

I’m just back from my holidays to Greece – it was great thanks for asking. A whole week with no access to a computer, I did come back with some ideas and thoughts of what I could be doing to get better online marketing results for clients so it wasnt all fun and no work.
For [...]

PageRank update due – woo hoo :p

Woo hoo a Pagerank update is apparently imminent. So that’ll give everyone something to talk about while I’m away. Have fun and please try not to kill anyone when the green pixie dust changes.  PageRank is dead anyway :p
I know some of you will be sitting rattling the future pagerank stuff @ SEO chat for [...]