Being busy, I haven’t really got anything thought provoking or intelligent to say today (sorry!) but I will talk about a little widget I’ve stuck on this blog. Widgets are like Garden Gnomes. One or two on a blog looks okay, but any more than that and it looks a bit tacky. Also, with widgets, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘google’
SearchWiki – The Death of SEO?
A number of posts on one particular webmaster forum (Digital Pointless’ “Google Forum”) alerted me to something I wasn’t aware of – Google’s SearchWiki. Basically, Google’s Search Wiki allows anybody with a Google account to login, and to vote up/vote down search results, similar to what you see on things such as Digg. These will [...]
SEO Quake, Not Liked By Google?
SEO Quake is one of my favourite Firefox addons to help with SEO (will write down a page with all my favourites shortly). It’s a great way of checking your inbound links, Alexa Rank (which is incredibly important), keyword density (which is also incredibly important), directory listings, whois and all sorts of things I spend [...]
Forum Signatures – Are You Next?
photo credit: Viernest A common belief (one which I personally don’t agree with) is that Google can detect where a link is on a page and discount it. Sure, ideally I would love my link within a post on a content rich blog, but that’s more for traffic, than SEO purposes. However, Google has taken [...]
Using Webmaster Tools To Find Free Links
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 [...]