Recent content by clickthrough_seo

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    Page loading speed & Google?

    Decent hosting in telehouse isn't that expensive. The problem is small businesses don't often know what they don't know and get the cheapest hosting they can lay their hands on, believing it is all the same. And site designers often have hosting deals to offer, but they don't always provide the...
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    Page loading speed & Google?

    Google has always been very determined that a) no attempts are made to con Google by serving one page to users and a different version to the spider and b) the user gets the best results for their search. Therefore, speed of page load *is* important. Not to the spider per se in doing its job...
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    Website Links

    Hi Your links need to be relevant to your site visitors so what categories of business are you looking to link to? That info should help anyone on here see a fit for backlinking easily. Also, an indication of your traffic levels will help other similar sized businesses come forward. There is...
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    Help Rogue web developer has registered my domain in his name

    When is the domain due to expire?
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    AVG/ Yahoo search bar

    Yes, please do reply so others know. The other problem I am having on one particular machine running Firefox is red highlighting appearing on every link. It makes it very hard to read and I can't find a solution to that either!
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    The Ultimate 'Post Your Twitter Name' Thread

    You'll be following me then! clickthroughseo
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    SEO and name servers

    As local search takes off more and more, plus mobile search, it will affect you on that level. If your customers are UK based, and you are selling a product or service which is very much aimed at your locality, it would be far better to host here. Google is starting to try to match the IP...
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    How to write website content that attracts searchengines

    Sometimes I think we all get a bit bogged down by SEO. A great article that hits all the buttons for your target audience and is well-written and grammatically correct will naturally feature all of the keywords your audience will be looking for. Therefore, it will also be picked up by the...
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    Seo & Ppc.

    To find the best keywords, brainstorm them. Ask your friends, family, colleagues to come up with everything that they can think of when they consider your products. You can even go out and ask in the street, pub, etc too! Remember that your primary reason for good keywords is to be found by...
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    duplicated content issue perhaps?

    Try submitting your products to Google Base as well. If it is only a small range of products, you can do it manually, but it might be worth spending the time creating an automatic data feed to be submitted once a month.
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    A question for the SEO experts...

    There has just been a very interesting discussion about Google intervention on econsultancy after they took a fairly major hit and couldn't figure out why. All is now back to normal and as was said, both there and here, there is no definitive answer as to whether this was down to manual...
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    101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence

    Very useful post that shows people exactly why they need to think beyond the search engines. Thanks!!
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    Duplicate content, bad form or both..??

    If we are talking from an SEO point of view, the search engines are not so dim as to not realise that these are in essence duplicate pages. Therefore, though each individual page may show up in a long tail search eg pest control specific town, under a more generalised search eg pest control...
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    What's a permalink structure...?

    Actually, I'm not sure I agree on this reply. Keywords in your URL _does_ have an effect. In fact, two effects. The first is that if your URL and page title and the header of your blog posts all include your keywords, the search engines will include these in their algorithms. Matt Cutts...
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    1st Page Google position

    Any SEO, internet marketing or PPC company who is cold calling right now must be useless! I don't know a single reputable company who is not seeing a major increase in clients as savvy companies in the know are INCREASING their online marketing budgets to make the most of the current...