Monthly Archives: June 2008
- June 26, 2008
- How to turn off the system beep in Ubuntu
If like me, you’ve heard the system BEEP! every time you accidentally mistype your password at the login screen a million times and you’re fed up of it, you might want to consider turning it off! It’s not immediately obvious, so here’s how:
1) Go to System>Preferences>Sound and click the “System Beep” tab.2) Uncheck “enable system [...]
- June 25, 2008
- Blip. The musical Twitter.
I just discovered an interesting little site called Blip. Imagine Twitter. Now, change it slightly so you can preview / listen to music everyone else is listening to, update people on what music you’re listening to, and add a status message. I’m excited. Could this be a very clever spin on microblogging?
I have a feeling that Ciaran [...]
- June 23, 2008
- Ubuntu SEO: Firefox plugins that work in Firefox 3
I think the biggest challenge to the SEO Ubuntu community (other than out of date documentation that is) is a bit of a lack of SEO software currently available for Ubuntu. I guess there isn’t that much demand for something like a rankings checker for Ubuntu. Noone seems to have got round to writing one. [...]
- June 23, 2008
- How to install a Nvidia display driver in Ubuntu
In my last post we discussed getting your wireless network working in Ubuntu. Next up, how to set up your Nvidia display driver, and how to instantly tweak the basic graphics performance of your new installation.
Nvidia drivers don’t seem to be open source like many other drivers for Ubuntu. all that means is that they [...]
- June 23, 2008
- How to set up your wireless network in Ubuntu
Part 2 of my Ubuntu installation guide is all about setting up your wireless network. By now you should have correctly installed Ubuntu and after a restart and a login, you’ll see a desktop a little like this:
What next? Before you do anything else you’ll need to connect your PC to a wireless network.
How to [...]
- June 19, 2008
- Firebug not compatible with Firefox 3 - and how to fix it!
If you’re an SEO, you’ll be using Firebug. There’s a compatibility problem with firebug in Firefox 3 that results in the error message “firebug not a valid install package -207″ or the error message below:
If you have this compatibility problem, help is at hand. Those wonderful folks at the Firebug working group have created a [...]
- June 16, 2008
- Understand your long tail - guide to recruitment SEO part 5
In part 3 of my recruitment SEO guide I talked about a great way to handle your vacancy pages from the point of view of good SEO, traffic generation and conversion.
This post develops the concept, by adding a discussion on how best to handle dynamic meta code templates for each one of your jobs. Could [...]
- June 15, 2008
- Optimised campaigns leveraging brand search - guide to recruitment SEO part 4
My last post looked at optimising a key area of your recruitment website content - your vacancies.
Vacancy optimisation is designed to capture traffic for long tail search like “landscape gardener job in Rickmansworth”, and that long tail can mean a 30% uplift on your site traffic. But there’s another search behaviour in recruitment. Brand search.
It [...]
- June 15, 2008
- Optimising vacancy pages - guide to recruitment SEO part 3
In the last post I discussed some of the basic elements of a search engine optimised homepage on a recruitment website. For part three of my recruitment seo guide, we’re going to talk about vacancy pages.
Vacancy pages. How many jobs has your recruitment agency had in its database since the company started, each vacancy lovingly [...]
- June 15, 2008
- Optimising your homepage - guide to recruitment SEO part 2
In my last post I discussed planning the structure of your site and assigning keywords to each main content area of the site. Thinking in “keyword buckets” should have helped you out there too. This is part two of my recruitment seo guide.
This post discusses a basic guide to creating an optimised homepage on a [...]
