Archive for November, 2009
Search Engine Friendly Pages
Posted by Rob Brideson in Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design on November 10, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy Pages: 292 (282 in eBook) Trimsize: 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 34 (9 in color in eBook) Tables: 8 Bibliography: Yes Index: Yes ISBN:9789810575946 There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on [...]
Reducing load time through image optimisation
Posted by Rob Brideson in Web Design on November 9, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy Pages: 292 (282 in eBook) Trimsize: 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 34 (9 in color in eBook) Tables: 8 Bibliography: Yes Index: Yes ISBN:9789810575946 Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, a large portion of the web’s population is still running on [...]
Do-it-yourself SEO
Posted by Rob Brideson in Blogging, Google Adsense, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO Tools on November 6, 2009
There are a ton of free online SEO tools available on the internet. Most feature some very impressive statistics and information to help you optimise your website, analyse search engine positions, research your competitors, and lots of other things. There are two ways you can use these free online SEO tools: (1) If you’re new [...]
Specific keyword density ranges
Posted by Rob Brideson in Blogging, Google Adsense, Search Engine Optimisation on November 5, 2009
With the decline of meta-tags, keyword density ranges have become very important. They’ve also become very controversial. Here’s the thing: you want a high enough keyword density—at least 7%–that your keywords rank highly in the bigger search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. But, as I pointed out in an earlier post, you don’t [...]
The likes and dislikes of Googlebots
Posted by Rob Brideson in Blogging, Google Adsense, Search Engine Optimisation on November 4, 2009
You may ask… What’s a Googlebot? Well it’s one of the little automated web-searching spiders that check your website pages and decide whether they are worth indexing. And these spiders have definite preferences, so you want to make sure your content is good spider food. Spiders like: Neat code—less lines of code than lines of [...]
SEO considerations when building a web site
Posted by Rob Brideson in Blogging, Google Adsense, Search Engine Optimisation on November 3, 2009
There are many things to consider when you go to put keywords in the text of your pages. Most search engines index the full text of each page, so you should put your keywords throughout your text. However, each search engine uses different ranking algorithms. And that’s the really hard part–difficult though it may be, [...]
SEO—Search Engine Optimisation
Posted by Rob Brideson in Google Adsense, Search Engine Optimisation on November 2, 2009
You’ve probably heard of SEO, since it’s the acronym on every web site designer’s lips these days. It stands for Search Engine Optimisation. SEO is the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a site by designing the site content so that the site ranks high in the search results of a search engine. [...]
