Archives by: Neil Haywood
The Joy Of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Out of all the techie task I have to do, what is the one task which challenges me the most? You guessed it, the joy of search engine optimisation (SEO) can sometimes be short lived.
Why is it sometime a post will rise up to the top of Google and sit on the 1st page and then sometime ...
Sun, Sand, Sea and San Miguel
What a day! Every now and then you get a day where everything just clicks. I woke this morning working to a goal and today that goal has just been obliterated. Once again, Larry and I had an "ah ha" moment. A special day is vast approaching and we had everything planned out for the festive ...
Are You Spreading The Luv?
My last two articles looked into the difference between dofollow and nofollow hyperlinks. They also looked into some of the pitfalls of having dofollow links on your blog. After upgrading to the latest version of comment luv we noticed something significant in the default install. This brings us to our question.
Are you spreading the luv?
By default, ...
The problem with dofollow links
Last week I wrote an article about using dofollow links on your blog. In this post I encouraged bloggers to use dofollow links on their blog but this comes with a word of caution which I want to go through today. I want to highlight the problem with do follow links and how enabling them can ...
To Follow Or Not To Follow That Is The Question
Being a search engine optimization (SEO) specialist, there is one question I get asked a lot by new bloggers.
What is a dofollow link?
This is a good question because there is no way to specify dofollow in a hyperlink. The attribute you can set in a hyperlink is the opposite to dofollow, rel="nofollow". When a search engine comes accross a ...
How to Stop Spam Comments on a Stand-Alone WordPress Blog
Any blogger will be able to relate to this problem. You've just installed your new WordPress Blog. Everything is working great, it's all set up nicely and for the first few weeks your worry free. One day you log into your admin panel to write a new post and then it greats you, 24 new comments. ...
Blog Coaching
Today I want to take a day off from the normal SEO chat and talk to you about blog coaching. In today's current financial climate a lot of people are being forced to find alternative work. The amount of 9-5 jobs available are decreasing every month due to the amount of redundances taking place.
One of the ...
A Quick SEO Tip – Using Bold Text
It's late and I just wanted to quickly give you a tip of the day if you can call it that. When preparing a web page for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), dont forget the importance of using bold on a webpage to highlight a keyword or keyphrase. Don't over do it though because it will look unnatural ...
Search Engine Optimisation – What is a Keyword?
A keyword is a search word someone has entered into a search engine, 'lifestyle' for example. A keyphrase is a bunch of keywords together like 'healthy lifestyle' or 'how to lead a healthy lifestyle' etc. There are hundreds of thousands of searches entered into the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. The searches users type into the ...
What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)?
I will be writing a lot of articles on search engine optimisation (SEO) so it makes sense to start at the beginning.
What is SEO?
Put simply search engine optimization is the process in which a webmaster can improve the rankings of a website or web page for a specific keyword or phrase. It's only applicable to organic (natural or ...