August 2008 22
Should I pay for Google Ads?
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This is a question I get asked a lot. The answer is "no" and "yes"... NO, you shouldn't buy Google ads if... your site is being found in the "natural find" or "organic search results"…

August 2008 04
Flash – and why you shouldn’t use it
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What is Adobe Flash Anyway? Flash is a Adobe technology used for animation. It was not necessarily conceived for the web (originally it was aimed at multimedia CD presentations) and it has a number of problems…

March 2008 26
Link Your Website
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Disclaimer: nothing that you read below has been confirmed or approved in any way by major search engines such as Google. At best it is a summary of what industry commentators say about successful linking strategies.…

March 2008 26
Keyword Effectiveness Index or KEI
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The Keyword Effectiveness Index or KEI  compares the number of searches for a keyword with the number of search results. Suppose the number of searches for a keyword is 486 per month and Google displays…

March 2008 26
Pay Per Click or PPC Advertising
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Pay per click advertising (PPC) is essentially bidding in an auction for position on the search engine results pages. You set a monthly budget, say $50, set the maximum you are prepared to pay for…

March 2008 26
Google Local Business Results
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You may have noticed that sometimes when you use Google it returns a map with the search results. The map has pins on it that correlate to the top 3 most relevant sites right of the…

March 2008 26
Traffic versus Sales
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Not all traffic to your web site is equal. Although Google has the greatest number of searchers (49%), its users are not necessarily "ready to buy". Research shows that the most productive search engine in…

March 2008 26
Do I Need CMS?
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Very often when people approach my business for a quote, they ask for "content management". Content management systems, or CMS, allow the owner of a web site to change the content on each page. Often…

March 2008 26
Not All Paras Are Equal
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In the world of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), not all paragraphs are equal. For example a search engine will treat the first para on your page as more important than the second para and the…

March 2008 26
Domain Names with Keywords
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Some web site owners believe that registering a domain name with their main keywords will shoot them to the top of the search engine results pages (SERPs). While having keywords in your domain name will advantage…