Archive for November, 2006

Doing Some Search Engine Optimization

Nov 302006

published by Gary in SEO with 2 comments

David Peralty provides some excellent advice with links to relevant resources regarding optimising your blog for search engines. This will no doubt be a post well worth following.

Here are some additional links that I have also found helpful:

Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips

The best WordPress SEO possible

SEO Plugins for Wordpress

AddThis Social Bookmark ButtonAddThis Feed Button

The Cost of Keyword Research

Nov 282006

published by Gary in Keyword Research | SEO with 4 comments

Keyword research is essential to me in trying to obtain the best results possible from the SERPS and in maximising traffic to my sites
I went to update my subscription at KeywordDiscovery - the yearly subscription is now nearly $600 per year. Although I believe this to be good value for money I spent some time […]

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Practical Web Design

Nov 242006

published by Gary in News with 6 comments

Bad news for all Practical Web Design magazine subscribers. I received a letter this morning from the publishers of PWD stating that they have produced their last issue. In January I will receive a free copy of the .NET magazine instead. I then have the option of cancelling my subscription for a refund, or my […]

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Internal linking strategy

Nov 192006

published by Gary in Link Strategies | SEO with 14 comments

Internal linking
Many sites I come across use a ball internal linking structure which leads to each page getting an even share of internal PR:

When conducting SEO for sites that have multiple main areas of business, I try and build a multi-pyramid internal linking structure. This distributes the PR as I wish, and gives a level […]

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Joost de Valk - Subscribe to comments plugin request

Nov 172006

published by Gary in General | News with 1 comment

Joost de Valk kindly suggested I implement a subscribe to comments plugin. This has now been completed. Luckily I found an excellent Wordpress comment plugin it took less than 5 minutes to install and worked out of the box. I was so pleased I made a small donation, thank you Jennifer.

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Sitemap Standardisation

Nov 172006

published by Gary in SEO with 2 comments

This week Google, MSN and Yahoo agreed on a sitemap standard. Updating sitemaps may not be such a pain in the future. Google and Yahoo have already implemented the standard, with Microsoft following by 2007.
That reminds me, I must organise a site map for PhoenixRealm - Or can it wait until 2007

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Google Page Rank

Nov 152006

published by Gary in Google Page Rank | SEO with 4 comments

I noticed today that the www & non-www versions of phoenixrealm had different Google page ranks - 6.5 & 6.4
My understanding is that Google classifies these as separate domains, and that you can get a page rank boost by telling Google there is only one and generally helping search engine optimisation. This can be achieved […]

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Basic website SEO

Nov 142006

published by Gary in SEO with 2 comments

I wrote a quick guide for a friend, with the intention of helping her optimise a website for search engines. It is rather basic, but I think includes most of the key SEO elements she needs to take in to consideration. If I have missed anything important please let me know.
Basic website SEO strategy:
1) […]

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