There has always been plenty of debate about the importance of choosing an appropriate tld (top level domain, like .com, .ie, .co.uk etc), and choosing a hosting service based in your main target market.
Until recently the common wisdom was that, if you wanted to rank well in a specific local search engine index, like for [...]
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Getting your pages indexed in google’s local search – a google.co.uk case study
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Shortening the_excerpt in wordpress with substr
Monday, November 30th, 2009Things have been very busy here for the last couple of months, so sorry for the lack of posts. We hope to resume normal posting shortly.
In the meantime, here’s a quick and simple wordpress tip that’s come in handy for us so we thought it would be good to share.
One common problem you can run [...]
Google puts Premiership and Serie-A football fixtures at top of serps
Friday, August 21st, 2009It seems that Googlehas suddenly subscribed to that famous old adage of Bill Shankly’s – football is not a matter of life or death, it’s more important than that – given that they’ve started pushing Premiership, and Serie-A fixtures to the top of their serps (search engine results pages) for searches using city names that [...]
The problem with AJAX and Flash – in terms of google indexing
Monday, June 1st, 2009There’s a great article by Vanessa Fox over at SearchEngineLand.com which, taking its lead from triumphant announcements at the Google I/O conference, discusses the still very real problems some sites have in being effectively indexed and ranked in google and other search engines because of their use of AJAX and Flash – two very [...]
Moving domains – an expert experiments
Monday, May 25th, 2009Back in April Google guru Matt Cutts decided to move his blog from his www.mattcutts.com domain to another that he owns, www.dullest.com, changing host and ip address at the same time. All things that can have an impact on how your website performs both for visitors and for search engines.
Now he’s moved it back, and [...]
Wolfram Alpha Bologna Conundrum
Monday, May 18th, 2009Like many people over the last couple of days, I’ve headed over to Wolfram Alpha to see this new engine that will supposedly provide definitive answers to factual queries. An ‘answer engine’ as it were, as opposed to Google’s search engine.
It’s early days, and perhaps unfair to start hitting out at the results provided from [...]