Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Blogger goes down

With Blogger going into read-only mode on Friday for 24 hours; bloggers lost over 30 hours of posts and comments. Instead of being able to access their blog they were faced with this message.

Internet World 2011: Gary Beal’s 12 SEO Tips Talk

It has been a very hectic and awesome day today at Internet World 2011, in Earls Court London. Our Head of Search, Gary Beal did an amazing talk in the social media theater, revealing his Top 12 SEO tips for 2011 after the Panda Algorithm update.

SEO Checklist For Pre-Launch Ecommerce Sites Part 1

Unlike a normal blog or a website, onsite audits for ecommerce sites can be a mammoth job to undertake. It is always better to go through the site and make sure it is seo compliant BEFORE launching. This is to prevent google from indexing non-optimized pages or worser still, finding countless 404s and duplicated content.

  1. If the ecommerce build is currently on a “dev” subdomain or a sub directory of a site, ensure that it is uncrawlable by password protecting the directory. This is usually the best method instead of adding meta noindex, no follow on page level or blocking bots by the Robots.txt file

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.

Long Tail Death?

Dear Google – why is it that when I am searching for “Jim Stewart Coffee Fairtrade” you give me results from a train company I’ve never used and a town council I have never heard of?