By Sam Langdon on June 8, 2011
Google, Bing and Yahoo! have recently joined forces to work with schema.org to agree on a convention designed to improve understanding of the structure of different types of data (e.g. books, films, recipes) on websites so they can be shown in search engine result pages. Data Types There are a large set of new data [...]
Posted in Content, Technical Architecture, Tools | Tagged HTML5, rich snippets, schema.org, semantic web, W3C
By Sam Langdon on March 28, 2010
If you’re new to WordPress, or just looking for some tips on great plugins you haven’t yet come across to help with your SEO, this list is for you… All in One Packs These are handy if you’re new to WordPress and don’t have time to faff, but if you’ve already got plugins in place, [...]
Posted in Content, Link Building, Social Media, Tools | Tagged wordpress plugin
By Sam Langdon on February 27, 2010
In a Google Webmaster Central video from Matt Cutts this week, the topic of nofollow links in blog comments is discussed. There are 2 important conclusions: If you have a blog, you should nofollow links. The reason being that spammers adding untoward links can earn you a poor reputation in the eyes of Google. Of [...]
Posted in Content, Link Building | Tagged google, matt cutts, nofollow
By Sam Langdon on December 26, 2009
The internet marketing landscape has already changed considerably in the relatively short space of time that the web has existed. As technology has progressed, effective search engine optimisation has shifted. It’s no longer about keywords and link exchanges. It’s become more about leveraging interaction through the web community and (this was always the case to [...]
Posted in Content, Social Media | Tagged 2010 social media, real time
By Sam Langdon on December 16, 2009
Real Time Web 2009 has seen a lot of enhancements in Real Time search and news. A lot of this revolves around the increasing use of social networking. Google Realtime Search Google has recently made agreements with various partners involving involve real time search, including Facebook, Twitter & MySpace. Having direct access to this data [...]
Posted in Content, SEO News
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