Posted by Spyda on Sep 20, 2009 in SEO & Search Engine Watch | 8 comments
When I changed hosts recently my ranking in Google disappeared totally and I have been working really hard to get it back. Having done a pile of htaccess, with proper error code handling with a specific file designed to translate error codes, serve a decent understandable message to users and also return the correct redirect code to allow Google to remove pages I no longer want included in their...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Sep 2, 2009 in Featured, SEO & Search Engine Watch | 3 comments
Hi ya, there is a common misconception that SEO makes ugly text based websites, and I thought I would share some of the elements that should and can be included into web designs to make them more SEO friendly and usable too. There is a strong relationship between usable websites, and SEO friendly websites, namely because Google and the other search engines all love usable websites. Ok so lets...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Jul 19, 2009 in SEO & Search Engine Watch | 6 comments
These kinds of articles get written all the time, but first of all I’d like to just let you know that these are all tips that I actively use in SEO and from my experience & absolutely work. If you are already doing all of these things then reviewing them on a regular basis and reading some of my other SEO articles should be your first port of call. There are so many SEO ranking factors...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Mar 12, 2009 in Marketing | 0 comments
When it comes to visitors and your website, we all hear the seemingly ‘unlikely’ statistic that if we don’t catch the attention of the user in someting like half a second, then they will navagate away. Unfortunatley this statistic is true, due to us the users literally being spoilt for choice when it comes to content. It’s changed our browsing habbits as users, we want...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Mar 6, 2009 in News, SEO & Search Engine Watch | 1 comment
Tell ya, I’m addicted to the weather, I spend so much time on the bbc website looking at wrongly predicted weather reports. But recently, those who regularly visit, have made their beta site live.
Assuming this site was done by professionals, they’ve made some funny mistakes, so because they have changed the URL, now google needs to index new pages, get new page rank scores, and wait for...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Mar 3, 2009 in SEO & Search Engine Watch | 0 comments
When all is said and done, it often comes down the basics when SEO is concerned, and it doesn’t get more basic than keywords themselves, they are the fundamentals, the end goal of what you are trying to achieve. Rankings for lucrative keywords right? Well almost right, but if you go choosing the MOST lucrative keywords you’re going to be disappointed. You may get lucky, and get good...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Feb 16, 2009 in SEO & Search Engine Watch | 0 comments
Hi again, if you have landed here, or are viewing this page, this is a follow on from my first article – Seo Checklist Part 1. Today we are continuing that checklist, and starting with page loading times, we’ll cover a few points today, and look out for the next part i’ll publish soon!
4. Web Page Loading Times
This is a topic which can easily be over looked these days,...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Feb 2, 2009 in SEO & Search Engine Watch | 0 comments
SEO is an unusual topic, especially when it’s in an industry which regulates itself, and their aren’t any reconised college or university courses which cover it, thus those who are SEO experts can only give themselves this title. SEO (search engine optimisation) however does have a close cousin, marketing – which is as close as you can get, and I know some marketing courses in...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Jan 29, 2009 in Misc, SEO & Search Engine Watch | 0 comments
Hey Guy’s,
Haven’t done an SEO a post in a while, and for those who are juts looking up seo, SEO is search engine optimisation, so I’m going to take you through just a handful of points on my SEO checklist, do these points, and read a few of my other articles and you cant go far wrong.
Wuup is a little over 5 months old, our traffic grows by 50% each month, so we can’t be...
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Posted by Alan Hamlyn on Dec 15, 2008 in Featured | 10 comments
Not everyone has time to do the things they like, and thus I thought of a nice idea. If you have an article you fancy submitting to Wuup, let us know. We’ll pay £10-20 per article you write for us. Here’s the deal.
Article Criteria
Articles must be technology, php, flash, actionscript 1, 2 or 3, pc games, xbox games, ps3, wii, seo, search engines, or similar related. You can check...
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