Just SEO Tips

Many things factor in to where you rank in the search engines. Google has always had a very advanced algorithm for figuring this out and it is constantly changing. You finally think you have it figured out and they will go and make changes to it, leaving you back at square one. The only thing you can do is make sure that you understand the different factors that make up ranking and do your best to satisfy them all as well as you can. There are many factors when deciding on the ranking of a webpage and we’ll cover these now. Read the full post

Twitter, Facebook and Buzz are just three of the many social media outlets where people can voice the latest news, views and pictures to a much larger audience. Twitter in particular has become an increasingly popular news medium that is being used by individuals, businesses and major broadcasters alike. It is common to see the Twitter sign on websites and also on the major news channels including BBC and CNN, but you may ask why? Read the full post

Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumored Internet search deal that will help the two companies take on their biggest rival, Google. Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will  become the advertising sales team for Microsoft’s online offering. Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years. Last year it rejected several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt brace the Tsunami alone. Yahoo’s shares fell 12% after the announcement, while Microsoft shares moved up by less than 1%. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer said the 10-year deal would provide Microsoft’s Bing search engine with the necessary scale to compete.         Read the full post

This requires that you get your head around your site’s subject matter and the products you may be offering. It is imperitive you understand this before targeting. You must identify not only the type of traffic or visitors you desire on your site, but also the kind of traffic or visitors you don’t want.

How did this list get started? Well, apparently Mr Google, Matt Cutts, mentioned at PubCon recently that there are over 200 variables in the Google algorithm. So the folks at the WebmasterWorld set themselves a challenge to list them all.

Here is what has been included so far:

Domain

• Age of domain
• History of domain
• Keywords in domain name
• IP address of domain
• Location of IP address / Server

Architecture Read the full post

• HTML structure