Monthly Archives: July 2008
- July 24, 2008
- How to reduce your blog bounce rate
Here’s a quick update on the results of applying some basic optimisation of your blog sidebar to reduce the bounce rate on your blog.
About two weeks ago, I wrote this post on displaying features conditionally in your wordpress sidebar based on the page you’re viewing by using some very simple php. Basically, why display all [...]
- July 23, 2008
- SEO hosting 101 - don’t leak your staging urls into Google!
Your web design company has sold you an “advanced” SEO deal with your brand new website and hosting package and everything looks perfect. The site architecture, url handling, migration redirects and everything else SEO is apparently perfect. You go live, safe in the knowledge of a job well done. Months later, nothing. You ranked better [...]
- July 18, 2008
- How to take a screenshot or region capture like Snagit in Ubuntu
Snagit is a great piece of screen capture software that lets you capture sections of a screen, entire webpages or your full screen view. One of the best bits is being able to add little speech bubbles like this image here. If you’re running Ubuntu though, there’s no such software.
How to capture a screenshot or [...]
- July 16, 2008
- Rethink that sidebar, Again! Advanced Wordpress SEO
The Wordpress sidebar is such an important piece of real estate on your blog, a lot of internal navigation clicks happen there and lots of people can exit through the links you display there too.
So why does such an important part of your blog get ignored, or at least treated in exactly the same way [...]
- July 16, 2008
- Does Matt Cutts have a URL canonicalisation problem?
This morning I’ve been conduction some research on class attributes that control search engine indexing, such as Yahoo’s no-content attribute.
Along the way I though I’d check Matt’s blog to see if Google have recently commented on the use of robots-nocontent so I performed this query to see if he had much content on the subject.
The [...]
- July 11, 2008
- How to count your outbound click stats with onclick in Google Analytics
This evening I’ve set up my side bar “Find me on” links to track outbound clicks using a javascript onclick event. I’ve set this up mainly out of a curiousity to find out how much of my traffic exits via my Wordpress sidebar, and of course an interest in how this type of outbound link [...]
- July 10, 2008
- Google Keyword Tool - Volume data is permanent
More exciting news after this week’s observations in the community that Google’s Keyword Tool was temporarily spitting out real numbers - it’s doing it again!
Is this a permanent change now? Let’s hope so! Go see for yourself at: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
**Update: Yes, it looks like it is - Rebecca at SEOmoz included a link to this inside [...]
- July 3, 2008
- Fixing duplicate content (and no, I’m not going to talk about pagination)
There’s been a lot of attention on one of my favourite SEO issues recently, particularly duplicate content. “dupe content” is just one of those subjects that never go away. Why? It seems that for every fix we apply to sort the problem out, an entirely new kind of duplicate content can occur. The other problem [...]
- July 2, 2008
- Using Google for duplicate content detection
A month or so ago I was looking at a camping equipment website called outdoorpros.com. I love this site and would recomend it to anyone. Being an SEO, however, I couldn’t help but notice that they were using some suspicious looking paginated links on their categories pages, so after getting all excited about my new [...]
