Recent content by KevPrice

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    CSS Image replacement, seo penalty??

    as long as the text you are replacing is the same as the text in the image you should avoid a penalty. Google have released guidelines on CSS image replacement. We tend to use these techniques across all of our sites and never have any problems. if I can find the article by Google on it I'll...
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    Returning forum user

    Hi, I used to be pretty active on here, but my activity dropped off when the business took off. However, I'm determined to give myself time on here as the forums are so valuable. Since I was last on here we have revamped and updated our website. I love the honesty of this place, so please feel...
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    Need a flash designer

    Hi PI Guy, We're a Web company in Newcastle, with loads of flash experience in everything from simple animated banners to games and viral applications. Here's some examples: www.ki-media.co.uk/panto/ www.santasumo.com/game.htm/ We also did an application using video for great run, but it's no...
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    Looking for SEO advice....

    Our website should be updated within the next week with more information. We work in different ways depending on what stage the website is at. The service I usually provide first is a site survey and actions list. What this gives you is an overview of the site and what changes should be made...
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    Looking for SEO advice....

    hey Mark, I'm predictably going to recommend my own company Ki Media. We're based in Newcastle too. I'd be happy to arrange a face to face and we can discuss the process, costs etc. At the very least I can give you some free advice.
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    email campaigns

    Hey Safia, my business partner just wrote a blog post on email marketing :) http://www.ki-media.co.uk/how-to-make-the-most-of-email-marketing/ but as a summary - Its still useful in many ways, especially if you hit the inbox at the correct time. Its cost effective, cheaper than print and...
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    What Exactly is Page Rank?

    Even better :) When I got into SEO I never imaged that my physics degree would come in handy in understanding it
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    What Exactly is Page Rank?

    hehe, sorry. I just thought it was the most complete answer. didn't know how indepth you wanted to get. Everyone else covered it quite clearly
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    What Exactly is Page Rank?

    PageRank is defined as follows: We assume page A has pages T1...Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85. There are more details about d in the next section. Also C(A) is defined as the number of...
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    anyone done SEO for an adult site before?

    I think in such a massively competitive arena, standard SEO methods aren't going to have a massive effect. As people have mentioned people are going to be using every tactic to reach the top. I'd be concentrating on getting traffic from other sources rather than google's standard search. I...
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    On site ideas

    Lose the music, put the address (stoke on trent) in the footer of every page. Localise the site in google webmaster tools. ensure unique title tags on every page. look at relevant H1 & H2 tags. Bring in lightbox for the gallery, bring the gallery forward I found it difficult to find - the info...
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    Does Google still read META keywords ?

    The best article on meta keywords: http://searchengineland.com/070905-194221.php
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    Does Google still read META keywords ?

    Hey Sirearl, You quoted Miss Fox talking about 'meta description' tags. The question posted is about 'meta keywords'. Meta description, as Miss Fox is saying is used as the snippet under the title of the page in the SERPs. If the description is not relevant then google may use a snippet from...
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    Positioning Of Keywords

    I think your written descriptions should be clear, concise and relevant to the product and the reader. trying to catch the long tail of search by yourself, by creating wordy descriptions may impact on your sales. User generated content is the best way of hitting the long tail, the audience will...
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    likethis.co.uk or like-this.co.uk

    The major SEO benefit of having keywords in your domain name is because the majority of the time people use your domain name as anchor text when linking to you. Google have proven they can handle domains with or without hyphens, so it essentially comes down to aesthetics (how does it look on a...