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Web site optimisation v SEO

bill — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:52:47 +0000

There seems to be a lot of confusion in the minds of many webmasters, both new and experienced, about what SEO actually is and what tasks it is useful to spend time on. You see forum questions asking ’should I worry about code validity’ (I’ll return to that one in another posting soon), ’should I [...]

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Russians improving the search interface

bill — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:37:03 +0000

Earlier this week over at AltSearchEngines the title of alternative search engine of the year was awarded to Quintura. Strictly speaking it doesn’t seem to be a search engine in its own right but rather a search interface, and that’s where its value lies. Quintura is of Russian origin, and it makes use of that design [...]

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To nofollow or not?

bill — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:04:11 +0000

As a consequence of the paid link controversy and whether you should use the nofollow attribute on paid outbound links, there is now another one about whether webmasters should use it on internal links. On one side there is the original suggestion from Matt Cutts in his interview with Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz, and followups [...]

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What use are usability experts?

bill — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:03:37 +0000

I feel a rant coming on… The other day I was preparing an email to a client about why it wasn’t a good idea to have lots of ‘click here’ links all over her site and thought to check a few of the usual places like the W3C and accessability sites to give her as [...]

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