Search Engine Optimisation: The Archives
How To Apply rel="nofollow" To Content In Drupal
If you’ve got a community website using Drupal, you might want to protect your site from spammers by applying the rel=”nofollow” attribute to any links your users generate. The theory behind this is that you protect your site from linking to ‘bad neighbourhoods’ an possibly incurring penalties with Google for spammy links. Rel=”nofollow” is your [...]
Posted in Drupal, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, April 2 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hacking Simple Machines Forum For SEO
The Simple Machines Forum is a great free php forum system. Unfortunately, out of the box it’s the most poorly search engine optimised piece of rubbish you’re likely to ever experience. But then, most forumware is. When I installed the Unreality TV Forum, the first thing I did was to make the layout fixed-width for [...]
Posted in Internet Technologies, Search Engine Optimisation on Monday, March 17 2008 | Leave a comment »
Some Useful Yahoo! Shortcuts
After getting frustrated with the search results that I was getting from Google, I decided to spread my wings a little bit and start using different search engines. Currently, I’m using Yahoo! for my everyday searches, supplemented by Microsoft’s Live.com. One of the biggest benefits of using alternative search engines is seeing different results. I’d [...]
Posted in Internet Technologies, Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, November 8 2007 | Leave a comment »
Search Engine Professional
The good folks at SEOmoz have come up with an SEO quiz that rates your knowledge of SEO according to some very difficult questions. I took the test today and got a 74% score – not bad considering there were some tricky questions (and a couple where the wording caught me out). So, I’m officially [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 12 2007 | Leave a comment »
SEO Success For Heritage Quilts
I was pleasantly surprised to see that a site I’d worked on a while back is ranking at #1 in Google (uk only) for a key competitive term. Heritage Quilts is a small business run by my client, Briege Kelly. She’s a dedicated quiltmaker and allows orders via the OSCommerce store I set up for [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 5 2007 | Leave a comment »
SEO TIP: Viewing NOFOLLOW Links On The Web
Aaron Wall’s brilliantly useful SEO For Firefox plugin can show you a lot about websites via the search results – PageRank, age of site, number of backlinks, etc. For me however, the most useful feature of the plugin highlights links that have had rel=”nofollow” applied to them. This can be useful when doing link building [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation, Social Networking on Tuesday, August 28 2007 | Leave a comment »
Installing Drupal’s Google Sitemaps Module
Here’s a short and sweet tutorial on how to install the Drupal XML Sitemap module. This module automates the creation of a sitemap – an inventory of the files on your site – and automatically submits it to the major search engines as well. An essential SEO step for users of the Drupal CMS.
Posted in Drupal, Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, July 17 2007 | 7 Comments »
Jennifer Laycock Goes On A Google Diet
Search engine expert Jennifer Laycock is embarking on an experiment to see if it’s possible to build a successful web business without any traffic from the major search engines. Looks like an interesting experiment in guerilla marketing techniques that any small business owner should be watching.
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, June 28 2007 | Leave a comment »
The ProBlogger Effect
A few days ago I participated in Darren Rowse’s group writing project over at ProBlogger. Basically, Darren sets a fairly wide topic and asks his readers to make submissions, link back to relevant posts and comment on blog posts they particularly like. I decided to get involved this time and write a Top 5 type [...]
Posted in Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation on Sunday, May 13 2007 | Leave a comment »
Using Social Bookmarking Sites The Ethical Way
Social Bookmarking services allow people to store their bookmarks online and share them with other people. There’s a popularity element to the process too – most bookmarking sites publish lists of the currently most popular items based on a number of criteria. Smart webmasters know that by getting their sites listed on the ‘popular’ lists [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, May 4 2007 | 5 Comments »
