March 2009

SEO and Site Architecture

March 30, 2009

When we are talking about “site architecture” in terms of search engine optimisation, what we are really discussing is the whole of your sites framework that supports your content. We are looking imparticularly at how your site structure facilitates the search engine spiders which will have an impact on how your site is indexed. In [...]

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Enhancing Your SEO Efforts With Google Insight For Search

March 27, 2009

I’m sure most of you reading this who have a strong SEO background will no what Google Insight is and how it works but for the benefit of those who are not familiar with it let me just run through the basics. Google Insight is a tool which helps you take a closer look at [...]

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A Quick Look at the “Make Money” SEO’s

March 25, 2009

I like to research sites in competitive niches from an SEO point of view, and there isn’t a more competitive niche than the “make money” niche. The results returned on the phrase “make money” is in the range of 223,000,000 so the guys topping this niche must know exactly what they are doing. Another aspect [...]

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Should You Worry About Your Code to Content Ratio?

March 24, 2009

There are a lot of small areas of search engine optimisation that when put together help create significant results. One of those areas is your content to code ratio, this relates to how much coding is on your web page in comparison to the meaty content. If your unsure what your looking for here simply [...]

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SEO Issues – Q&A’s

March 23, 2009

Over the past couple of weeks I have had a number of SEO related questions, some from readers and others from potential clients. I have decided to set up “SEO issues” to answer some of these questions in one place as I think they will be useful to the whole SEO Wizz community. It doesn’t [...]

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Query Deserves Freshness – What is it? How do we use it?

March 20, 2009

Query Deserves Freshness or QDF is an aspect of Google’s algorithm that helps establish the “hot topics” around the web. Rand over at SEOmoz gave a great explanation of this aspect which basically relates to how Google ranks sites, that make reference to certain hot topics. Check out the below video:- http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3769152&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday [...]

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Bounce Rates, Adwords and an Effective Content Structure

March 19, 2009

Wow this title is a bit of a handful and to be honest this post is on various different topics, however it has two main purposes and that is to give you some suggestions on reducing your bounce rates and creating brand awareness by using adwords. We all want traffic to our blogs/sites and in [...]

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