November 15, 2008
SEO Analyst up to 30k plus bonus - London

Title: SEO Analyst
Salary: £30k
Location: London (Victoria)
Contact: Laura@digitalpeoplelondon.co.uk
Job description:
As SEO Analyst you will be working on internationally renowned brands bringing them to life within search and social media spaces. You will be involved in every stage of the SEO process from research and methodology and devising strategy, through to the implementation process in order to fulfill [...]

October 30, 2008
How to display latest posts from a single category in Wordpress

How to display latest posts from a specific category without a plugin in Wordpress
I’ve just made an addition to my side bar that displays all of the latest items added to my jobs category. It’s a few, simple lines of code and doesn’t nessecary warrant an entire plugin! Here’s how to do it - just [...]

October 29, 2008
How to add simple jobs board functionality to Wordpress

Add a jobs listing or product listing page to Wordpress without the use of a jobs plugin
A few weeks ago I launched my SEO jobs page. Since I started SEOgadget I’ve wanted to build something that resembled a basic “jobs board” to complement my blog, owing to the fact that a lot of my time [...]

October 11, 2008
How to add a popular posts section in Wordpress

One of the new features on my blog is a popular posts section in the sidebar. It’s now very easy to do this yourself. Here’s how:
1) Download and install the “Post Plugin Library” from here and activate it. This plugin does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random [...]

August 12, 2008
How to create page templates in Wordpress for better Social Media targeting

What do you do when your blog covers more than one topic (let’s say, Recruitment SEO and guides on how to install Ubuntu), while your audiences all hang around on different social media sites? Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate when you’re targeting Digg, right? To solve [...]

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 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 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 [...]

June 10, 2008
Wordpress SEO plugins - Optimise your blog

I’ve had a Wordpress blog for only a few days, but I’ve been an SEO for 5 years. Optimising a website CMS is reasonably easy as long as you can edit meta code, manage url rewrites, deal with canonicalisation issues and create reasonably clean, semantic HTML. A few years ago that meant developer time and [...]