January 2008

How’s Your Site Doing in Yahoo?

posted by Gary Cottam on January 31, 2008 in Google Page Rank

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Last week Yahoo! announced that they have been making changes on their indexing and ranking algorithms warning everyone to keep a close eye on the effects on their own site’s rankings. It’s been more than a week and I wonder …

Over Optimised: Is There Such a Thing?

posted by Gary Cottam on January 30, 2008 in SEO Basics

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Some SEO folks, when talking about keyword stuffing, pertain to the page as being over optimised. But is there really such a thing as over optimisation? I was mulling this over and realised that the term is contradictory. After all …

Options for Removing URL from Google

posted by Gary Cottam on January 25, 2008 in SEO

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I don’t know how I missed Matt Cutts’ video on Webmaster Central Blog on removing your content from Google. Anyway it’s not too late to give a summary of the talk especially since it is very useful.

There are …

HTML 5 Working Draft Now Out for Public Review

posted by Gary Cottam on January 23, 2008 in Website Design

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The long wait is finally over. After 10 years of working hard on HTML 5 the W3C group has at last published the working draft online. According to W3C, “The publication of the First Public Working Draft is a signal …

WordPress and the “Read More” Problem

posted by Gary Cottam on January 18, 2008 in Blogging

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Chris of Rillz Magazine wrote an interesting post on a WordPress quirk that isn’t doing anything for your SEO. The ever helpful WordPress uses the phrase “Read more” or “Continue reading” automatically at the end of post excerpts. This …

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January 2008

How’s Your Site Doing in Yahoo?

Over Optimised: Is There Such a Thing?

Options for Removing URL from Google

HTML 5 Working Draft Now Out for Public Review

WordPress and the “Read More” Problem

SEO Over Coffee

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