Archive for November, 2006

Doing Some Search Engine Optimization

Nov 302006

published by Gary in SEO with 3 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

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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 7 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 6 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:
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