SEO The Game

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Excerpt: SEO is not a game. it is an art and sometimes it can be a really difficult thing to complete and achieve something great (like the number 1 listing in Google and other search engines like Bing and Yahoo). Sometimes, you can just spam the heck out of a site and instantaneously achieve the number 1 position  in all the search engines but this does not always work. It takes time and a lot of fine tuning with even more patients. What is your opinion on this? If you are a genuine professional in the field of SEO, you will agree with…

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Excerpt: Mobile SEO is going to become even more important in the near future. As Microsoft are now coming full fledged into the world of mobile with a better platform than even Google Android, more people are going to concentrate on optimising for the mobile web as more and more people are going to increasing use Google and Bing mobile and thus more websites will become optimised for the mobile web thus increasing spend on the mobile web. Are you a user of the mobile web? If so would you purchase something through your mobile phone? Maybe not yet but will you…

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Excerpt: Normally, as SEO’s we try to concentrate on getting the search engines crawl and index as much of the site as possible. However, occasionally there might be reasons why you would want to remove content from search engines. For example, if spammers have infiltrated your site and put links to their sites. There are a number of ways in which you can tell the search engine what to do. .htaccess – password protect the content you really don’t want search engines to index. (you have to do this before they index the content.) This is a strong method of protecting the content…

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Excerpt: The British people produce more web pages per head of its population than any other country in Europe. In the UK we write around 17 pages per person. At least this is the result of a survey by Greenlight. Although this does not say anything about the quality of those pages. Perhaps this is not all that surprising as English is still the dominant language of the Internet (and spam) and the UK has a fairly developed infrastructure compared to many other countries in Europe. The next most productive country is Germany with 10 pages per person while Greece produces…

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Excerpt: AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)  is a combination of  Javascript and XML to process information without having to refresh the page. It is used increasingly in web applications and may websites and  search engines have great difficulty crawling  websites that use AJAX because they do not execute  Javascript. With this being a modern and useful feature for visitors on websites, there is a considerable need to be able to crawl this information. Sites that use AJAX produces URLs that look like, http://www.example.com/#state1 everything after the octothorpe is meaningless to a crawler. Google have been researching methods to crawl AJAX sites and have developed…