SEO The Game

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Excerpt: One of the annoying things about ColdFusion is when the code has been executed the source code is full of white-space where ColdFusion has been removed. In the most extreme circumstances, this can lead to a much longer source code, which from an SEO point of view is to be avoided. In the settings of the ColdFusion administrator panel. Click enable white space suppression. It is not going to have a massive effect on your SEO but at least it means that you don’t have to scroll as far, makes the code more readable and it could save you some small…

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Excerpt: Choose your key phrases correctly and the rest of your SEO will follow. If you choose keywords that are too competitive it will take a long time to and maybe you will never achieve the results that you were hoping. Keywords that are not competitive don’t receive many searches. Tools such as WordTracker and Google’s Keyword Tool can help you gauge which keywords you want to optimise for. For example suppose you have to optimise for Fire Sprinker Systems, you might choose a broad range of keywords ranging from the generic to the specific. Sprinkler Systems – could be confused with garden…

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Excerpt: Following the success of the Google Chrome browser,  yesterday Google announced that are developing their own operating system called Google Chrome to take advantage of their application that are already being used on the web. The new operating system is intended to be small and fast loading which would be an obvious advantage on Netbooks which are primarily used for working online. This OS  will be Open Source and so will be free to use.  It will run on x86 and ARM processors. It will also have a simple architecture, the operating system will run in a new windowing  system on…

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Excerpt: It is finally here. Twitter spam. (It has probably been around for a while but now it is here for me personally.)  Now that Twitter is a mainstream form of communication it has been hijacked by scammers, spammers and other idiot marketers. Over the past few days my followers have been mainly from  make money fast and other fake accounts that are trying to get my attention. As always, the spam works on the ability to send large numbers of messages for little or no cost. It relies on the few people who click it and make it worthwhile. Spammers also target the…

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Excerpt: The recent Vince update to Google, where generic terms become associated to brands even if they are not specifically targeting a keyword has caused much consternation in the SEO community. In the US the changes were noticed as far back as Feb. Aaron Wall has shown some evidence for brands being pushed up by the change when it happened in the US. The update was supposed to have be rolled out to the UK on Sunday, 29th June, 2009. Looking at the search results in the UK for generic items there is scarce evidence for a preference for well known brand…