Posts from ‘October, 2008’

An interesting post on sitepoint caught my eye - the post was about a member there, who’s blogged about how a post written about the Johnathan Ross/Russell Brand Non News Fiasco was receiving huge traffic because the post is located on page 1 of google, surrounded by the likes of Youtube & Newspaper Stories.
News based [...]

I often see posts on large webmaster forums such as Digital Point, Sitepoint & UK Webmaster World about “Is What I’m doing Illegal or Unethical?” when it comes to SEO. I think I should explain what each one is.
Illegal is when you break the law. This is when what you are doing goes against the [...]

So, what’s the first thing you should do when beginning SEO?

Submit to DMOZ? - Before That
Inform Google that your site is up? - Before that
Optimize title tags & Page keyword density? - Before that

The first thing you should always ALWAYS do is stick up a holding page for the client*. The reason for this is [...]

Recently, Matt Cutts on his blog suggested a way of getting free links on your site quickly and easily, using Google’s Webmaster Tools.
Google’s Webmaster Tools contains links to pages that people have pointed to, but they’re not on the server (404 errors). So say if somebody created a page to deadsite.co.uk/itisnothere.htm, and you either removed [...]

I love hearing people talk about SEO, it’s one of those things that’s still considered to be a holy grail - that can (and does) make a lot of people a lot of money, so it’s no surprise that a lot of people are in the market.
However, as a group of people that have being [...]

Welcome to Deadsite, another one of a growing number of blogs out there, and another one of a growing number of blogs out there that deals with SEO, internet marketing & other things.
We’re a North Wales Web Design outfit based in sunny (at the moment!) Colwyn Bay. We have a very successful Search Engine Optimization [...]