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Tuesday, 14 July 2009

SEO for CMS Percussion

Teddie Cowell, Search Director at Guava presents how to ensure your CMS is effectively optimised for search engines. Percussion is a leading Content Management Solution.

Friday, 27 February 2009

Google Testing Yahoo Like Quick Links

Google rolled out a quick test of Yahoo like 'quick links' which are a bit different to the usual sitelinks you see in Google. I managed to capture a screen shot as below before they disappeared. You can see them...

Friday, 13 February 2009

Google releases the "canonical" tag

Google releases the "canonical" tag. http://searchengineland.com/canonical-tag-16537 The tag behaves like an intrasite 301 redirect at crawler level but allows the page to behave as a normal 200 when users interact with it, and is implemented as: I...

Thursday, 05 February 2009

Site Migration And SEO

Migrating a website to a new domain is not always easy and is often the cause of many a headache for webmasters. Moving from an old established domain with authority to a fresh new domain without any history will have...

Monday, 01 December 2008

The 4 fundamentals of SEO remain as relevant as ever

The new Google search changes and features have certainly created fireworks in SEO offices throughout the world. However SEO remains at its core remarkably similar to what it was in 2002. The 4 fundamentals of SEO still remain as relevant...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Google Webmaster Blog....Static vs Dynamic URLs..Duh?

If you're a reasonably advanced SEO don't read this unless you want to get really annoyed, it makes some rather bold statements that overlook a lot of the reasons around why the current state of the art around good URL...

Friday, 19 September 2008

#1 Mobile Search Engine Optimisation

Yeehaw!!! Simon from Just the Flight and I collect the top award in the search engine optimisation category of the Mobile Search Awards.

Friday, 12 September 2008

Google Archive Search. New revenue model for publishers archives?

The days of visiting a library to load up the archives on the Microfiche Reader are nearly over and the device used for storing archives can finally be consigned there itself. Google has just launched News Archive Search, a service...

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Google gets personalised and social

Personalised and social, that sounds like an oxymoron, however Techcrunch have an excellent video of what appears to be a new results page UI test by Google. It looks like some brand new social media style features, and a few...

Thursday, 03 July 2008

Experimental Proof. Google Can Index Links in Flash!

Ok folks it's officially time to party. Naysayer’s’ that have been claiming this was just some PR around the Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK and the Googlebot wasn’t indexing Flash can be silenced because we now have undeniable proof that...