It’s Official, Even Microsoft Are Trying To Kick The Zombie Corpse Of IE6 To Death!

Microsoft says stop usin IE6 for gods sake

And they are giving out free baseball bats to the rest of us too! 

Mother’s Day Search Engine Optimisation- Mum’s the Word

Mother’s Day is a topical- trending national day. Have you thought about optimising your website to capture any searching souls?  Maybe your PR and social media strategy needs a little attention?

Edit the copy on your website- Here are a few SEO suggestions you can consider:

  • Add some new Mother’s Day themed content such as a “Perfect Buys for Mum” or “Mother’s Day wish list”.
  • Add keywords to and optimise your title tags. Title tags are definitely one of the most important aspects, in terms of the algorithmic weight given to them by search engines. If you are selling flowers a perfect opportunity would be to turn your title tag into ‘flowers for Mother’s Day’ as this would capture a popular search term.
  • Optimise the Meta Description tag so that you manage to capture crucial search terms.
  • Build do follow Links to specific Mother’s Day pages
  • Add links to your Social Media sites to attract the attention of the search engines.
  • Create a couple of new themed pages.

Google Targets Spam Content Farms

Google has implemented a major update in its attempt to try and stop low quality spam type sites featuring on its 1st page listings – If your link building and rankings are based on mass content networks, article submissions and lenses then your days could be numbered – Google is after you! The update is currently being rolled out in the US then the rest of the world.  Read  Google’s official high-quality sites in search’ update.

Blueclaw at Internet World 2011

We are excited to announce that Blueclaw will be exhibiting at Internet World 2011.

During the event we will be offering free SEO/PPC/Link building advice, tips and tricks.

The event takes place on the 10-12 May 2011 at Earls Court 2 in London.

James Holmes, a director at Blueclaw, will be speaking at the event in the ‘Social Media Theatre’. His talk will focus on the rise of Social Commerce – How the biggest brands are winning (and also failing).

Hope to see you there!

Infographic: Fuel Poverty Impact on Over 60s in England

Inforgraphic: fuel poverty amongst over 60s

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11th of February is Fuel Poverty Awareness Day in the UK. It’s an awareness raising media and public affairs campaign to encourage MPs to focus their surgeries that week on helping those affected by Fuel Poverty. Blueclaw has designed this infographic based on a recent study on how Fuel Poverty is affecting the over 60s in England. It’s pretty bleak, because, well, it’s meant to be.