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 »
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 gotten tired [...]
Posted in Internet Technologies, Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, November 8 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 »
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 »
Why Is Google SERP So Important?
A key factor in search engine optimization is your SERP – that is your position in the Search Engine Results Pages for any given keyword. The Holy Grail of SERP is to achieve the first position on the first page of results for a particular keyword. This article explains why.
Posted in Client Guides, Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, May 4 2007 | 1 Comment »
Wikimedia’s Unethical Use Of nofollow For Commercial Gain
Wikipedia has lifted restrictions on links to their sister sites that will give these new, for-profit sites an unfair advantage in the search engines. This post look at why you should care and what other commentators have said about the controversial decision.
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, May 3 2007 | 1 Comment »
Husband and Wife Blog Battle
Regular readers of the Scribble Designs blog know that my wife Lisa and I run an entertainment blog called Unreality TV.
Well, a few weeks ago we formally launched two new blogs under the Unreality banner – Unreality Music (my baby) and Unreality Primetime (Lisa’s baby). Comparing our strategies last night, we realised we were taking [...]
Posted in Blogging on Tuesday, April 24 2007 | 2 Comments »
SEO – Automating Meta Description For Dynamic ASP.NET Pages
Inspired by the META Description plugin for WordPress, I spent some time porting the code across to ASP.NET so that dynamically generated pages in my web applications could benefit from the enhanced individual META description tags.
Posted in General, Programming, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, April 18 2007 | Leave a comment »
Submit Your Website To Google? You Don’t Have To….
Submitting your site to Google isn’t a guaranteed way to get listed in their index. There’s a better way, as discussed here.
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, March 27 2007 | 1 Comment »
Press Releases and Search Engine Benefits
Savvy bloggers use press releases as a method of getting exposure for their blogs in the mainstream media.
We’ve used it recently with our website and had good coverage with local press and media. In fact, word has it that the BBC spotted Lisa on a rival channel and tried frantically to get in touch, even [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, January 19 2007 | Leave a comment »
