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SEO
Google Spams its Own Adwords Communications?
Yup, sounds ironic, however while clearing my inbox down this evening, I delved into the spam folder and noticed an odd email. The monthly Google Adwords results email that gets sent out was spammed by Google Mail. I’ve included a screenshot below and I’ve blurred out the sensitive parts as it was for a clients campaign and my prolific use of filters & labels in Google Mail is worth an … [Full Article >> ]
How to: SEO for eBay – 10 Minutes Per Day
Just because you pay eBay a fee for your eBay shop, insertion of a listing and a final value fee when items sell, unfortunately this does not mean that eBay unleash a team of experts to promote your business. In many ways you’re left to your own devices and as long as you convert buyers now and then, it kind of keeps everyone relatively happy. But why should you be happy with mediocre? Cumulative effect Once you’re … [Full Article >> ]
Why I’m feeling Rather Smug – 65% Website Speed Increase
I can’t remember the exact facts this, although I am sure Google will easily spill the beans on them, but for something like for a 100ms speed lag in page load times, you loose a 1% conversion on a website (believe this was a Amazon quote). The point is simple, slow sites suck (and cost viewers) and fast sites rule. This has been amplified by Google now taking page load … [Full Article >> ]
UK eBay Listing Analytics Tool starts working
eBay introduces Listing Analytics tool to UK users. This much heard tool, is now appearing as a new tab in your My eBay and will assist you with analysis on your eBay listings. UK eBayer’s may think, “How this new tool is going to help?” This tool actually interprets and describes the level of performance of all the contents on your listing, step by step. It will show analysis through … [Full Article >> ]
Google SEO Starter Guide Updated
Google has updated their SEO starter guide which they first released two years ago. Not surprisingly they reiterate that any optimisation decisions should first and foremost be what’s best for the visitors of the site. Visitors are real users of the website and are using search engines to find your work. If you’re creating quality, unique content (like this post for example), then any changes are likely to small and in the report they make another good … [Full Article >> ]
Yoast WordPress Breadcrumbs Plugin
Taking the advice from yesterdays post ‘Google SEO Starter Guide Updated’ on adding a breadcrumb to the sites theme, I remembered seeing a plugin from Yoast.com a few days back. Installation was done in seconds, almost like every other WordPress plugin, unfortunately the auto insert option did not work, however within a few pastes in the files page.php, search.php and single.php it was in and working. If you’re an avid blogger and … [Full Article >> ]
Google Does Not Use The Meta Keywords Tag
Myth, hear-say or Truth? Truth! Google does not use the meta Keywords tag. Contrary to popular belief usage of this tag for anything meaningful was lost years ago when it got spammed & stuffed by everyone and his dog. Offsite ‘factors’ were not being taken into account and pages were judged by search engines only on their content. Seems crazy now looking back. Here is a YouTube video from Matt Cutts, a personal idol of mine … [Full Article >> ]
Revamp of Link Reports In Google Webmaster Tools
Googles Webmasters blog has announced that they have updated the link reports shown in thier Webmaster tools. Google Webmaster Tools allow users to check up and analyse lots of different information that Google house on your authentication domain names and best of all its free. If you’re not using the Google Webmaster Tools, see here and sign up today. With the new reports, they show you three new things as a general overview: The top domains that are … [Full Article >> ]
