SEO

The Need for Speed – Site Speed and Google SEO

22 April 2010

Google has recently announced that site speed is now one of the components in their Search Engine algorithm. This has been on the cards for a while, when they effectively flagged it by including Site Performance in the labs section of Google Webmaster Tools.

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Google SEO Report Card – Learn from Google’s Mistakes

16 April 2010

Google has posted a SEO Report Card on how well it’s own sites are optimised for Search Engines.  The Report card examines the on-page optimisation of the various components such as Titles, Descriptions, URL’s, Headers etc and shows how various Google products are doing it well and others need improvement. The best thing about the [...]

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8 Essential WordPress Plugins

8 March 2010

Wordpress plugins extend the functionality of the basic setup to make wordpress do almost anything that you want. There are thousands of plugins, but these are the minimum that you need to include when you setup your site.

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Free SEO plugin – Underground Training Labs

11 February 2010

When I first started trying to find out about internet marketing and getting more traffic to my site. I came across this guy, Jeff Johnson, and he started to change the way that I thought about internet marketing. Anyway, I downloaded his free plugin for wordpress, which was fantastic because at that stage I knew [...]

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What are blog tags and why should I use them?

11 January 2010

Tags in blog posts are short labels that group posts together by single words or key phrases. Using tags consistently helps readers find related posts, assuming your blog theme actually displays your posts’ tags at the end of each post. Tags also play an important role in increasing the content of your site. If you [...]

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