Archive for 'Beginners SEO'
Improve Search Engine Ranking
For most small business sites that I have been working on recently there are the usual easy changes that can be made to help improve the search engine rankings fairly quickly. I still get surprised that these have not been done already - but hey, there does have to be some work for me out [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2008 under Beginners SEO.
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Your Title Tag - Your Little Piece of Gold
This post was inspired by a conversation with someone yesterday who is doing their own SEO on their own business sites.They were asking about changing the title tag once Google had cashed the page - and changing it every time the page was cashed - well don’t.
Your title tag is the strongest individual page element [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2008 under Beginners SEO.
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Now to Getting Your First Links
Getting your first links on a new site can seem like a daunting task if you have never built any links before. If you have built links before this post will not be much use to you.
W3 Sites is a directory of web designers, I would expect your web designer to have a page [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2008 under Beginners SEO.
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What is a Link?
I was asked this question last week. I stuttered and said - “a link.” They stared at me blankly, I hadn’t even answered as a question.
Okay, my mind raced, how would I get back to there - there being the beginning of the internet.
What is a link? This is a link http://www.deadflyseo.com [...]
Posted: February 21st, 2008 under Beginners SEO.
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SEO Book
What use is Aaron Wall’s SEO Book?
I would say at least two uses and may three.
If you are going to employ a company to market your web site you should have at least a bit of knowledge of what they are going to do. I don’t expect anyone in this category to do the [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under Beginners SEO.
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Great Anchor Text
Is there such a thing as great anchor text?
Yes and no. Using Google tools you can see a comparison of your anchor text and the text on your page. But first what is anchor text? It is the text that is on someone else’s website that hyper links to your site, i.e. [...]
Posted: January 6th, 2008 under Beginners SEO.
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Indexing Web Sites
Free blogs are an interesting way to move your web site. Getting your website listed in Google simply requires links - this assumes that you know what Google is looking for and how to apply that to your site. Fortunately, what search engines look for is easy to understand and use in your marketing [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2007 under Beginners SEO.
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4 Easy Tasks That Make a Difference
I feel the need to write here fairly often, however I am so busy I do miss posting for some time. Therefore I was thinking of something easy for myself and something easy if you are just starting out on SEO.
1. Go to
and sign up. I am not telling [...]
Posted: December 20th, 2007 under Beginners SEO.
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List of Irish Web Directories
You would think that I have nothing better to do, I am avoiding real work and browsing Irish Webmasters Forum, and read a topic on web directories. So here just for the hell of it is a list of Irish web directories. There are bound to be more web directories in Ireland, so [...]
Posted: December 14th, 2007 under Beginners SEO.
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SEO for Beginners
Search engine optimization, or SEO as it is also called, is an approach for marketing and promoting your website that is focused on the technology behind the search engines that determines how and why sites are listed, or ranked, for certain search terms.
Don’t approach search engine optimization as a game or hobby. When being approached [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2007 under Beginners SEO.
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