‘Web 2.0’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: In part I of this two part series on SEO tips for Blogs we looked at WordPress plugins, creating themes, internal linking, RSS Feeds and Blog Aggregators. In the second part of  search engine optimisation for blogs, we examine social media, external linking and how to avoid duplicate content. Social Media Twitter Twitter is a social networking site that allows you keep in touch with groups of people on the web through the passing of short messages (tweets) to say what you are doing. It sound like a ridiculous idea but it has the capability to build up a targeted audience for your…

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Excerpt: With the growth in cheap digital video cameras and the low cost of bandwidth, it cannot have escaped the average searcher that video has become a much more popular medium on the internet. The advent of YouTube and many other video sharing websites have  made this a viable method to drive traffic for many website owners. Google is showing video results  as part of their Universal Search and these results usually appear high in the rankings. With the thumbnail image there is also evidence to suggest that these results are more prominent to the searcher[1]. It is not easy, but sometimes a video…

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Excerpt: In the old days of SEO, people used to write content and insert keywords to get rankings but that is old-hat today. With so many social media networks such as: Digg, Sphinn, Stumbleupon and many more, people can cast their vote on your content. That is why it is more important than ever before to create dazzling content that people will want to read and link to. Copywriting is now one of the most important parts of on-page search engine optimisation;  of course it is still important to write tittles and add keywords, but that will just insure that you are…

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Excerpt: Linking As almost every SEO is aware, linking is one of the most effective ways in which to gain positions in the search engine results pages. This is unlikely to change although the value of link types will change as each new link niche becomes exploited and devalued. The most powerful links are those which are on-topic and point directly to a page on your site and these are type of links that you should be aiming to build-up. Reciprocal links, internal links and outbound links should also be used where appropriate. If you are just starting your web site then it…

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Excerpt: Introduction Increasingly when you visit a web site, you will notice that there are lots of strange icons that take you to sites with strange names. These are social bookmarking sites and they allow you to add sites of interest and share them with other people. The idea being that sites with good or useful content are being flagged up, enhancing the user experience. Are they a useful for SEO or will they just become another way to collect spam? The Origin of Social Bookmarking Sites Although we are seeing a proliferation of social bookmarking sites, they actually date back quite a long…