Archive for March, 2008

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SEO 101: Domain Names

First off, the domain name for this site is terrible, so this really is a case of ‘do as I say (not as I do)’.
From a search engine optimisation perspective it is advantageous to get your keywords into your domain name as this will help your rankings and it helps the users too. For [...]

20Mar2008 | Tony | 5 comments | Continued
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Not such a healthy option

I was feeling great yesterday as I managed to motivate myself to go for a mid-morning run which was great aprt for the fact that the sports tracker application on my Nokia N95 phone crashed and I had forgotten my watch so I had no idea how long I took. Arghhh….
That evening I had an [...]

20Mar2008 | Tony | 4 comments | Continued
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SEO 102: Evaluating Web Directories

Google tell us that directories are a good for promoting your website online.
Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.
The problem is they only specifically mention two; the Open Directory project and Yahoo!. Both are very hard to get listed in, [...]

13Mar2008 | Tony | 3 comments | Continued
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SEO 101: Headings

As the name suggests these are the headings within the content of the website and there are two ways of creating them. From a search engine optimisation perspective there is a right way and a wrong way of creating headings. The right way will improve your rankings if you include your target [...]

6Mar2008 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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SEO 101: Meta Keywords and Descriptions

We have already discussed the importance of titles which is defined in the head of a web page along with the page description and keywords. These areĀ  the meta description and the meta keywords.
The meta description as the name suggests should describe the contents of your web page and is another opportunity to include [...]

6Mar2008 | Tony | 6 comments | Continued