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 June 20, 2010
It’s been a while since I posted anything, due to various other commitments, so I’ll ease myself back in slowly with a short, not particularly SEO related post. WordPress 3.0 is out and has a number of nice new features – I’ve upgraded 2 websites automatically (one from 2.91, one from 2.92 on different hosts) [...]
Posted in Technical Architecture, Tools
By Sam Langdon on April 18, 2010
After Google recently announced it’s using speed as a ranking factor, Matt Cutts sensibly set panic-mongers at rest by explaining that it’s only a small part of the picture. Content, relevance, back links, accessibility and various other traditional SEO factors still account for the most part of how high your website will appear in the [...]
Posted in SEO News, Technical Architecture, Tools | Tagged google, performance
By Sam Langdon on April 3, 2010
Today the iPad went on sale to the general public in the US. In the video I’ve included below from Mashable, a number of slightly deranged people (including ‘queuing enthusiast’ Greg Packer, competing for the claim for first in line with German blogger Richard Gutjahr) who have been waiting in line for several days are [...]
Posted in General, Tools | Tagged iPad
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 March 21, 2010
Occasionally you may wish to allow your computer screen to drift into soft focus and pick up a book. Of course, if you’re reading this blog, it’s likely to be an SEO book. To give you an idea where to start, I’ve ranked my top 5 SEO books on the market at the moment. It’s [...]
Posted in Reviews, Tools | Tagged book review
By Sam Langdon on February 21, 2010
Note – I originally attempted to publish this article on SEOmoz, but there was a ‘conflict of interest’ as they weren’t willing to out other SEO websites’ possibly unethical practices. I found the recent release of SEOmoz’s Open Site Explorer extremely useful. It’s particularly good at comparing sites quickly and listing inbound links in descending [...]
Posted in Link Building, Tools | Tagged black hat, Link Building, seomoz open site explorer
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