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Bag a Google AdWords Voucher

I’ve got two Google AdWords vouchers to give away, one for £50, one for £30. They are for new accounts (less than 14 days) only and expire soon, so if you haven’t tried AdWords before, this is your chance. To bag one, just submit a comment on this post. The first two valid commenters will [...]

Is Your Website Fast Enough for Google?

Ever since Google announced that it was including the speed at which a site loads into its ranking factors there has been a fair amount of concern and confusion amongst webmasters. In a recent technical SEO session at SMX West Google Senior Developer Maile Ohye delivered the following presentation introducing 3 first steps for webmasters [...]

Disable WordPress’ Built-in Canonical URL

Here’s a quick snippet to disable the built-in canonical URL generation in WordPress 2.9

How to be a DIY SEO Superstar: Part the Third

So, you made it through the basics in Part the First, tackled the optimisation tasks in Part the Second and you’re back for more. You have come far, my young padawan, and now it is time to reveal all the secret tricks that comprise the Jedi art of link building! Actually, it’s not that big [...]

How to be a DIY SEO Superstar: Part the Second

Yesterday in Part the First, we covered crawling, finding your niche and a little bit about how to approach SEO. Today we’ll cover the basics of on page optimisation Optimisation: The Bit You’ve Been Waiting For Now you’re armed with your niche search terms (e.g. Fiat Car Spares London) you can make sure your site [...]