UK SEO based in Leeds with 11 Years Experience in Web Design and Online Marketing
July 29th, 2009 — SEO Techniques, Web Development
Heres a simple little entry for a .htaccess file that automatically maps any non www. domains to the www.versions (may not work on sub domains) providing a neat way of controlling canonical domain issues with a little 301 magic.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Enjoy!
July 28th, 2009 — Work Related
A position has opened at Click 4 Beds for a Junior SEO. As you will be trained in the basics of SEO and key principles, little knowledge or understanding is required however the applicant should have enthusiasm for the role and have a basic understanding of HTML and how websites are put together.
The role will include:
If this sounds interesting and you’re looking to take your first steps in this growing field of expertise and want to learn from someone whos had 10+ years experience in SEO and Internet marketing then apply here or spread the word!
July 15th, 2009 — Gadgets, Software
UPDATE:
The original promotional price has expired and now its closer to the time when windows 7 will be available to buy in the shops you can now buy the various packs pretty cheap on Amazon:
£64.68 £159.98 £148.00 $199.99 (wow windows 7 is much more expensive in the USA?) $319.99 $299.99Seems like for once the UK is getting a pretty good deal.
Adam has just given me the heads-up on Microsofts latest promotion for Windows 7 Home Premium which at only £49.99 gives you a massive discount off the RRP of £149.99.
The offer is available from participating retailers and is subject to stock.
Having run the Beta version of windows 7 for some time on my netbook im looking forwards to making the transition with my desktop pc which currently runs vista.
I have to say im not a fan of the bells and whistles that windows 7 has, however the additional speed is a welcomed boost to my productivity.
You can buy your copy of windows 7 at the following retailers:
Read the original offer here.
July 14th, 2009 — Link Building
Just come across BoardTracker.com, a great little tool for searching various forums for your keywords where you can jump in with some relevant marketing messages. At first glances it looks really promising. The only issue I’ve come across so far is that the threads are often closed.
So if you’re into forum based link development why not give it a go! I’ll spend some time over the next few months and come back with an evaluation.
July 7th, 2009 — SEO Advice
AttentionSpan on Qbn.com asks:
ive had a site with both www. and without www. indexed so its rather a mess.
Ive decided to keep it without www. did a 301 on htaccess, and put it to preferable in webmaster tools.
Now my question is the site comes up on page 4 with a specific keyword, but its indexed with www. if I remove all indexed sites with www. from Google and submit a new sitemap to Google without www.
How will my placing be on those keywords that i use to get some results with, will it be gone completely and will have to wait a few months to see some new results, or will it just replace the existing www. sites ?
I wouldnt remove any URL’s, by correcting the canonical issue with GWT then you’re in good stead
It will happen at the same rate as your re-crawl so anything from a few days to a few months. 301 is a good interim workaround and you’ve done the right thing by using webmaster tools.
It’s also beneficial for you to do an inbound link check and make sure your IBL’s are using the correct www. address to link to you! as this is probably the only thing that could maintain your duplication issues.
hope that helps.
July 6th, 2009 — Web Design
Looking through Sitepoints HTML5 cheat sheet and I’m confused.
After spending the past 6 years working with XHTML, its strange that HTML5 supports some previously depreciated tags like <b> <i> and a couple of others. What I suspect to happen is that in the intermediate stage, that ‘tag-soup’ style development happens (again) and that to retain support for IE6 etc, HTML5 tags will be implimented in a non-structural way.
I will be working on a few HTML5 sample Wordpress themes (to be released free) for anyone that wants them as a way of geting to grips with the intricasies of the new HTML5 format.
It’s still a shame that we’re inhibited from working in CSS2 (let alone v3) as retaining backwards compatability is still a maxim of development work.
