25 Website Improvement Ideas

This post aims to give you some ideas to improving a website. Not all the points listed below will be suitable for all sites, but you may be inspired to create new sections or develop new features which will help improve the site from an SEO, usability or usefullness point of view.
Here are 25 great […]

SEO Essentials for Website Design

I have written a list of points that will be useful for web designers and developers to help them understand the technical aspects of SEO better. This list intends to give them a brief introduction to SEO.
This list of SEO points will be useful for both agencies and in-house SEO departments where the website developers […]

Top 10 Firefox Plugins for SEO

Firefox is a great browser for SEOs and web developers. Due to the fact it is open source, many developers have written plugins and add-ons for the software to do a huge variety of tasks.
Here is my list of the top 10 plugins I use regularly:

Web Developer Toolbar - essential for web designers and developers
ColorZilla […]

Searching for indexed PDF and Flash files

To see how many PDF and Flash files have been indexed on a site (as well as other file types) use the filetype: operator in Google. For instance, to check the number of PDFs on the BBC you would search site:www.bbc.co.uk filetype:pdf.
For Flash files, you would search for site:www.bbc.co.uk filetype:swf.

How to get your website showing up in other countries

As search engines strive to give more targeted and relevant results to their users, SEOs will have to play catch-up to ensure their sites are still seen in the SERPs.
Two of the major themes taking place in the world of search are personalisation and localisation.
In the future, every user will have their searches recorded, […]

Search Engine Analysis Tools

The big 3 search engines provide handy tools and features to help analyse your sites. These include showing the number of backlinks your site has and the number of pages indexed by the search engine. Learn about the differences in these features below, and keep a record of the changes over time, to see what […]

Writing Effective Page Titles For Search Engines

Use up to 80 characters
Use important keywords and phrases unique to the individual page.
Uniquely describes what the page is about.
Make sure it is consistent with page description and web page body.
The first few keywords of your title tag are given the heaviest weight by the search engine, so it is important to dedicate these first […]

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