Monthly Archives: October 2008

Improving your search engine ranking

By Dave | Published: October 25, 2008
Part 4: Working your way up the rankings Often people find that their site is fully indexed in search engines, but they're getting no traffic from it. Lack of traffic is usually because the search engine has decided that a lot of other sites are more 'important' for the chosen search terms than theirs. So if you want traffic, you need to show the search engine that for specific search terms, your web site is the most important (click article title to read more)
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Getting found by search spiders

By Dave | Published: October 25, 2008
Part 3: Ensuring your website is found by search engine spiders There are three main ways that search spiders can find your site. The first is if you go to the search engine, find the ’submit your URL’ page, and enter it. The second is to have other web sites link to you, as these links provide a [...]
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Preparing your site for SEO

By Dave | Published: October 25, 2008
Part 2: Preparing your website for Search Engine Optimisation.  I’ve already mentioned that spiders ‘crawl’ links, but the most important factor to note is that search engines spiders cannot (currently) ‘read’ content within flash. So if your web site is all flash (cursor over the content and right click, if one of the items on the right click [...]
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An Introduction to SEO

By Dave | Published: October 25, 2008
Part 1: An Introduction to Search Engine Optimisation I’ve been putting off this series of posts about SEO for a while, because it’s such a massive topic that I’ve been struggling to decide how to approach it. SEO is a multi-million pound industry, and there is no end of companies who will take your money off you to [...]
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