There’s been quite a large reaction to Google’s announcement that you don’t have to rewrite your URLs to appear as simple “static looking” and keyword rich as once advised. I’m not going to change a thing about the SEO on my sites, but what if you already have a site that uses dynamic query parameters, [...]

Google does not crawl links hidden in Javascript Onclick Events.
A few months back I wrote about detecting duplicate content using Google. When I wrote the post I inadvertantly set up an experiment with code that looks like this:

Which, creates a working link that looks like this:
>>>  Seogadget home page <<<
In the past there’s been some [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be creating a guide to recruitment SEO: the series is aimed at beginner to intermediate SEO’s or in house marketers working to design a search engine friendly website able to attract new candidates or potential clients.
Getting a clearly organised and well optimised sitemap structure on your recruitment [...]