Recent content by Andy Walpole

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    Alternatives to Affiliate Windows

    I'm in the process of creating a Wordpress plugin to handle affiliate feeds Other than Affiliate Windows, what are the most widely used companies?
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    Merry Christmas to all

    Nollaig Shona Dhuit or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
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    Google freebie websites-any good?

    I set up a site and asked for further info at the beginning of the summer just to check out what was on offer. I got a call from a rep a few months down the line asking whether I would like further web design work for £150 to which I stated I would be interested. A couple of months later I...
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    Importance of ROR Sitemap for SEO?

    It's immaterial Deecoup whether your sitemap is in the ROR format or standard XML, it doesn't matter to the search engines. However, there is some discussion about whether it is even worth having a sitemap. If you use the search facility you'll find a fairly recent thread where this issue is...
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    Google Web Master Tools - Keywords

    Top Hat, don't presume that any of the information provided via the Google Webmaster Tools is accurate or complete and especially not keywords or incoming links. It has certain uses particularly for crawl errors and finding duplicate meta tags and titles but much of the rest of the data should...
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    Red Hat SEO is ALIVE

    Congrats on your Google triumph I would practice Claret and Blue Hat SEO but I reckon I'd only languish at the bottom of page 2 ;)
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    div overlaying - any negative effect for SEO?

    recently I was listening to a Matt Cutts video in which he said that Google bot ignores content with display:none (add: its not included in Google algorithm)
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    div overlaying - any negative effect for SEO?

    I'm only aware of display:none adversely affecting SEO
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    Facebook to enter search?

    Here we go. The debate and chatter continues: What if Facebook Goes Search While Google Struggles to Go Social?
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    Putting these tags in my page.

    Isabella, you may find it useful read this new article SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-wonderful-world-of-seo-metatags
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    DMOZ problems

    I just checked all the available sections for my borough in London and they are not even in the Google cache
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    Putting these tags in my page.

    Neither will help you Isabella. 1. You don't need to tell the search engine bots that it is okay to visit and index your page as you have done in the first meta tag - they do that automatically. 2. The revisit meta tag is not understood by any major search engine
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    My thoughts on new domain extension .GR.COM

    So not only do you have to pay more than twice as much for them as other regular domains you also get auto penalised by Google - bonus!
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    My thoughts on new domain extension .GR.COM

    I'm a bit confused about how these domains came about. Are they all subdomains of gr.com... like mywebsite.gr.com?
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    Google toolbar PR update

    I presume that toolbar PageRank is dead... or maybe it's just like a sleeping parrot... Still no announcement from Google yet though