we’ve put a number of 301 redirects in place for our new games site (please excuse gratuitous linking:)). what should happen is that google should see the old domain as no longer existing and redirect all traffic back to the new domain. however that isn’t happening here; it is still picking up both domains, however […]
I love an acronym more than most, and this is a good oneGoogle has an inordinate focus on domain name(and a difficulty in concatenating).What concatenate means is that brendan-mcnulty is a better domain about me that brendanmcnulty as Google has a way of differentiating where one word ends and the other starts. As Google has […]
I was chatting to someone about creative link building and this example came up. They wanted to create more World Cup focused traffic during the World Cup, but it’s a pricy time to buy search traffic. They came up with a plan to create the “Anti- World Cup Association”- women who feel abandoned by their […]
I understand why link building is so crucial; it gives Google an idea of how important a page is with regards to the number, quality and context of links that are linking to a the site. However I still find it a bit of a dark art; why would people want to link to you? […]
Image by Stephen Poff via Flickr I had 3 interesting search meetings recently, 1 with Google and two with SEO consultants. As a result of these I’ve written a few search related posts over the last week or so. The title of this post was a comment that someone made in one of the meetings […]
Michael Jackson (via last.fm) So you’ve done it. The checklist is done; 1. site is in all the directories. 2. Everything on the page is looking good; canonical domains, H1’s et al ()3. you’ve got a load of inlinks time to sit back and watch the traffic pour in, right? Nope, now its time to […]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife It seems like a stupid question when you think of it. If you want to optimize your site for search engines, you would always want to end up on top, wouldn’t you? That’s where all the traffic is, and more traffic equals more revenues. Some statistics I read say […]
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