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Well, it appears there isn’t a Google Chrome download for the Apple Mac yet. Boo!
If you have one of those crap Windows PC then you can get a free web browser from Google;
Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
Wonder when the Apple Mac Chrome will be out?
Update - Actually, Google have a post about Chrome for Mac on their blog.
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008... Read Full Story
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TIP 22Adding rel=”nofollow” to a link effectively stops a link being a link, as far as Google is concerned. This means the link does not count as a vote, does not pass page rank, nor topical relevance(!). For instance, most blog comments are nofollow links, unlike this blog;
<a href="http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Hobo</a>
There are a lot of people who argue every single thing about nofollow and PR. That nofollow links pass PR, that you... Read Full Story
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TIP 23What is a xml sitemap and do I need one to ’seo’ my site for Google?
(The XML Sitemap protocol) has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft
No. You do not need a XML Sitemap to optimise a site for Google, again, if you have a sensible navigation system.
A XML Sitemap is a method by which you can help a search engine, including Google, find & index all the pages on your site. Sometimes useful for very large sites, perhaps if the... Read Full Story
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New Google PageRank Update - 26 July 2008
I’m observing a new Google Page Rank for my internal pages on a couple of sites I monitor as reported at some other sources.
Cut off date seems to be mid June?
Oh dear. I see a lot of reductions on seo company sites again. Looks like I’ll be popular again
Ah well seems the perfect time to introduce the close old posts plugin feature for Wordpress. It closes comments on old posts on the fly, and I’ve set it for the time being for 30... Read Full Story
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Weeks 1 & 2 Results
Fridays in between seo and web design responsibilities we have X-Box Friday. We have a league going and some of the boys in the office have a team. Here’s the results after the first couple of weeks.
I’m Argentina and frankly I was f*&^%$£ robbed today after being unbeaten although I had a lot of calls today so wasn’t concentrating on my game. A couple of the less fancied teams managed to take a point against me while I considered long term busi... Read Full Story
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TIP 18Does Google rank a page higher because of valid code? The short answer is no, even though I tested it on a small scale test with different results.
Google doesn’t care if your page is valid html and valid css. This is clear - check any top ten results in Google and you will probably see that most contain invalid HTML or CSS. I love creating accessible websites but they are a bit of a pain to manage when you have multiple authors or developers on a site.
If your site is so badly de... Read Full Story
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TIP 11Ah the ALT tag. An essential part of that on-page quality score seo crow about lol
Keyword in the Title Tag - Check
Keyword in the Page Content - Check
Keyword in the meta description - Check
Keyword in the ALT Tag?
Not quite!
If you were checking off some quality score card and ensuring your keywords where in every flippin’ tag on your page you’ve probably told Google what to derank you for if you don’t have the link-power to back it up (and sometimes, even if you... Read Full Story
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TIP 4OK - So I’ve theorised about the Title Element, the Meta Description Tag and the pointless (IMO) Meta Keywords tag.
The only other Meta Tag I am interested in, generally, is when I am trying to control which pages (at a page level) are indexed, or which external links are to be counted by Google as links - useful to stay within their guidelines in some cases. The Robots Meta Tag;
<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow" />
I use the above meta tag an... Read Full Story
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TIP 3Like the title element and unlike the meta keywords tag, this one is important, both from a human and search engine perspective.
<meta name="Description" content="Get your site on the first page of Google,
Yahoo and MSN too, using simple search engine optimisation.
Call us on 0845 094 0839. A company based in Scotland." />
Forget whether or not to put your keyword in it, make it relevant to a searcher and write it for humans, not search engines. If you want to h... Read Full Story
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TIP 2Ahh, a bastian of crap and unethical seo companies - the meta-keywords tag! How many crap seo companies mention cleaning and optimising this tag in their presentations? Companies that waste time on these waste clients money.
<meta name="Keywords" content="seo, search engine optimisation, optimization" /
I have one piece of advice with the meta keyword tag, which like the title tag, goes in the head section of your web page, forget about them.
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