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5 Ways to Build Links to Your Site

by Martin on 5 November, 2009

in Blogging

Another question I saw recently: how do I build incoming links to my site? So why are incoming links important? Because they are the search engines’ way of assessing how good your site is. And if they think your site is good they’ll send you lots of visitors. The logic goes that if lots of [...]

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I’m often amazed when I look at the source code of web pages, because creating a page that’s optimised for the search engines is so straightforward – yet so seldom done. I’ve said repeatedly: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not a black art, so don’t let anyone tell you it is. All you need to [...]

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What’s All This SEO Stuff?

by Martin on 6 July, 2009

in Web Basics

When you first start working online the amount of jargon and acronyms you see can be extremely off-putting. Which is no different from starting any new type of activity, by the way, but for people who may be a bit nervous of technology it can be enough to keep you from getting started. So let’s [...]

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META Tags Are A Waste of Time

by Martin on 27 May, 2009

in SEO

I read a post recently in a forum that argued quite strongly that META tags are a waste of time. The argument was that they don’t serve a useful purpose any more, with the exception of the Title and Description tags. I disagreed quite strongly with that position. Here’s why:  

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Page Rank or Visitors?

by Martin on 18 December, 2008

in SEO

Here’s a question I saw in a forum this week:  is it better to have a good page rank or lots of visitors to your site. The person in question had a site which was focused on design and design services, so my opening response was that what they really wanted was lots of visitors [...]

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10 SEO Steps For a New Website

by Martin on 14 December, 2008

in SEO

Here’s a list of the top 10 SEO activities I do for a new site.  I…: Complete my META tags for each page of my site. I complete all available META tags and I complete them individually for each page.

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SEO vs Social Marketing

by Martin on 10 December, 2008

in SEO

Here’s another question I saw in a forum this week: what’s the difference between Search Engine Optimisation and Social Marketing, or are they the same thing. Here’s the reply I offered: They are different things but Social Marketing will help your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) efforts, if you do it properly.

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How To Use META Tags

by Martin on 27 October, 2008

in SEO

I saw another question on how to use META tags today, specifically on the use of Title, Description, Keywords and Footer.  Here’s a copy of my response: The Title tag is what appears in the blue bar at the very top of your browser window. Google currently appears to place a lot of emphasis on [...]

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How Does A Blog Benefit SEO?

by Martin on 6 October, 2008

in SEO

I just saw an interesting question in a forum: how does a blog help with SEO?  Here’s the answer I offered: An active (and that’s important) blog is attractive to a search engine for three primary reasons: It’s updated with new information regularly Through the mechanism of tags and categories (or labels on blogger), its [...]

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Do Follow, Don’t Follow, What The Heck

by Martin on 1 October, 2008

in Blogging

I’ve written a couple of times before (here and here) on whether or not to pay attention to the ‘no follow’ attribute when making comments on blogs. And both of those posts link to excellent posts by Jack Humphrey on the subject. But I thought I’d scout around the web and bring you some differing [...]

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How To Lose Website Traffic

by Martin on 24 September, 2008

in Blogging

I saw another excellent rant by Jack Humphrey today on the question of No Follow. Do you still look for No Follow blogs to comment on or link to?  If you do you’re wasting time and losing traffic. I’ve written many times now, here and here for starters, on why it’s important to write for [...]

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How To Set Up The All In One SEO Plugin

by Martin on 23 September, 2008

in Wordpress

Note: I re-read this article recently and found it needed updating, so I’ve added the update at the end. I got a question from a friend the other day on how to set up the All-in-One-SEO plugin for WordPress.  I figured that if she needed to know maybe others do too, so here’s how I [...]

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When I built my first website I was uber excited and sat back waiting for all those visitors to come flooding through.  Of course the reality hit me pretty quickly, which is when I realized I had absolutely now idea how I could get people to notice me online.  Luckily things are different now! Unless [...]

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To Follow or Not To Follow

by Martin on 29 August, 2008

in Blogging

In all my posts about SEO I’ve written about the importance of writing for people, not the search engines.  My point being that what you actually want is for people to read your site, or blog, and to like what they read, because people will buy from you – the search engines won’t. I saw [...]

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Last time I looked at some simple things you can do to make your website more search engine-friendly: on site Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). But, as I mentioned towards the end of that post, off-site SEO ultimately carries more weight with the search engines than on-site SEO does. So, today I’ll take a look at [...]

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Let’s take a look at how you can promote your website for free – that is, without spending any money, because it will take your time! This is a large area, so I’ll deal with it over the next 2 or 3 posts – maybe more. So be sure to subscribe to either my RSS [...]

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