Hidden Div SEO
Flashbender Asks: If you are using jquery (or any other framework) tabs / accordians to dynamically show/hide content is the content that is initially hidden indexed? I’ve had discussions with web planners and marketing types about this and they are adamant that tabs hurts SEO. My research shos that the spiders read the content and [...]
Google Microformats hCard/vCard hReview and XFN Explained
Today sees a significant change to your Google listings with google announcing its support for rich snippets including vCard and vCalendar. This is important as it gives us an edge to make our listings stand out from the crown, however the down side (yes theres always one isnt there) is that it arms Google withgreater [...]
Do Follow Links From Amazon
I’ve posted previously about how you can use Amazon Wishlists to get do follow links from your Amazon profile. Well I’ve just discovered that if you categorise your wishlist items that these categories are shown in sequence on your profile page raising your links from a megre 5 to as many as you want (I’m [...]
Swine Flu Pandemic – Tips to stay Safe.
Woke up this morning to an announcement that the swine flue pandemic rating has been bumped up to 5 of 6 which means its almost a global pandemic – the conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one! Just thought I’d put together a few issues to watch for and tips [...]
UK Social Bookmarking / Networking Sites – Are There Any?
Just a quick shout-out to see if anyone knows of any UK hosted Social Bookmarking or Social Networking sites. I ask because I’m keen to build links to one of my sites purely from UK sources to see if this helps with SEO for UK centric sites. If you know of one, please let me [...]
I <3 Social Networking and Bookmarking Sites for SEO
I’m working through around 2000 social networking and bookmarking sites looking for sites that will help with my link building tactics. Yes I openly admit that im not interested in being on page 1 of Digg, Redit or Sphinn, instead my interest centers around developing a niche section on a 3rd party domin which in [...]
Download IE8 Final
It seems that Microsoft have decided to finally take the IE8 browser out of beta and its now available to download in its complete form (despite the fact that its still not secure – yet more secure than apple’s safari!). Download IE8 (Final)
Google Analytics Time Of Day Report
One of the most irritating things about Google Analytics is it doesnt give you stats related to the time of day (this is something we use Woopra for)… well that was the case for me until I worked out how to do this using a custom report. Hits by time of day are important as [...]
Matt Cutts Confirms 100k Per Page Indexing No Longer Applies
Just looking into an indexing issue we’re having (it’s taking AGES!) and came across this nifty post by Googles resident sphinn doctor and head of search spam, Matt Cutts. In this post he explains how that ‘back in the day’ google had a 100k per page indexing limit meaning pages over 100k were trunkated and [...]