Archive for November, 2009

Duplicate content can cause real problems for the search rankings of a website, and it seems that over the last few years the problem of plagiarism has increased manyfold. Duplicate content can also be a serious problems for certain types of sites that have not been maliciously copied, but rather, due to the nature of [...]

Sitemaps provide a means by which webmasters can inform and direct spiders, they help Google and other search engines to index more pages and discover new content more quickly and effectively. They are also useful for ensuring that all your pages are found and indexed.
Submitting a sitemap to Google is free and simple to do. [...]

During an interview with Webpronews, Google’s spokes person Matt Cutts revealed some interesting news about the pending google algorithym update labelled “caffeine”. The update is set to go live on Googles datacentres shortly after christmas. Google could have released the update sooner but held back to avoid upsetting rankings during the holiday season.
Google are expected [...]

Any one who is serious about SEO will have long ago realized that fire fox is the best browser for anyone involved in organic search marketing. The number of plug ins and tool bars available for fire fox that are designed to assist with all aspects of SEO must run into the thousands. There are [...]

Keyword Anchored backlinks are a great way to optimise your site.
Google and all the other main search engines will rank your website higher for the
keyword you use in these links, therefore it is always a good idea to use Google’s keyword tool beforehand to see how much traffic the keyword has prior to linkbuilding. After [...]

Optimising your website can look like a daunting task, this post should give you a basic understanding of what is required to get your website climbing the ranks.

Where should I start ?
The first think you should do is analysis, use an seo tool to check that your meta tags
are correct and relevant to the site, [...]

URL Canonicalization linking is used when a domain has more than one page with simular content.
The method can be used to ensure that all incoming links are attributed to a single page and to avoid duplicate content penalies for simular pages on a single domain. (you cannot use this method to specify a canonical page [...]

SEO Analyzer

This is a great tool, its free to use and gives you a quite detailed report of
keyword density, meta tags and any tag related errors on the page.
It will show the description tags and their relevance to the page contents as a percentage, aswell as displaying the pages google page rank and title tags.
Google [...]

Although the general consensus is that Google does not give very much weight to the keywords meta tag for indexing purposes, the tag is still worth using as it is not completely ignored by modern search engines. The keywords used here will add to your overall keyword credit for those search terms. Keywords should always [...]