We all know that ranking high in search engines is the best way to drive traffic to your websites. So, what techniques can you use to help push your way up the list? Well, incoming links are the most valuable resource that SEO professionals use to help influence search engines...
I’ve organised a talk for the Isle of Man Chapter of the BCS this week that will focus on search engine optimisation. We’re having dotPerformance come to speak to us a bit about the SEO in general and about the work they do for their clients. We took a different...
I’ve just come from an interesting post on FuelMyBlog’s blog entitled: SEO wins gold, silver and bronze. It’s an interesting post that compares SEO to the Olympics and The Guinness Book of Records. Here’s a snippet from the post: A lot of SEO technology is used to make sure weaker...
How’s your imagination? Well, if you’re trying to think of new keywords for your website, you’re going to need lots of imagination. Alternatively, check out the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. It gives you loads of suggestions of keywords you can used, based on all the research Google has amassed. It...
My mate Carlo just sent me a link to a website you can use to analyze your backlinks. Analyze Backlinks, as the site is so aptly called, let you specify a URL, and comes back with a list of pages that reference the URL. Using it is simple, just pop...
I noticed something interesting today. I was playing with some SEO tools to understand how Google ranks sites a bit better and decided to check how many inbound links Google thinks this site has. I fired up Google and tried: link:http://www.u-g-h.com/ Google reported a grand total of 248 websites that...
Looks like Google‘s datacentres are in the middle of another Page Rank update. Google does this from time to time to update it’s published values for Page Rank used by third party services (for example the Google Toolbar) and every internet marketing company keeps a look out for that. Anyway,...
