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The largest difference you can make to the success of your website is the content you write on it. It’s long been understood that search engines prefer websites with regularly updated, high quality content because real people prefer the same. We’ve been advocating the WordPress content management system to help our customers be able to [...]
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Regular Content Updates Google (and others) like websites which are regularly updated. It shows that your site has not simply been forgotten and left on the internet. It also shows that you are about your site. Update your site weekly (or more). This is where an integrated blog or news section can be really useful. [...]
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Ever since folders and pages were concieved, people have asked which is best. Do I want http://www.dedicatedukhosting.com/ or http://www.dedicatedukhosting.com/index.php ? Well, the truth is that it doesn’t really matter. What matters most is that anyone linking to you is using the same link all of the time. Therefore search engines which crawl these sites will [...]
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Incoming links Incoming (Inbound) links are our ‘bread and butter’. A popular and well regarded site which links to yours will do wonders for your listings. Quality as well as quantity here. It’s no good having either 1 good link or 400 bad links from disreputable sites. As such I would advise staying away from [...]
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Blogs/Blogging A Blog (Weblog/Web Log) is a great communication tool. Visitors can be attracted through rich and informative content (you have arrived here haven’t you?). By linking to your site from your blog and visa versa, your traffic can be increased. This does rely on you and can be a hefty time investment if you [...]
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Page Titles The title of your webpage(s) is absolutely critical in your goal for good Search Engine listings. The page title you choose is what you should expect to see in a search engine. Consider your page content and how the title best describes that content. Ensure you check the spelling of those titles and [...]
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Avoid some technologies Everybody has to start somewhere. I remember trying to optimise my first site for search engines. It was a site I had written about 6 months before and I was pretty yound and very uninformed. I had written this site in one of the worst WYSIWYG site design programs ever (you can [...]
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Standards Compliance This is a wider issue than just SEO. Writing compliant code can make sure that your site is accessible to those with impairment(s), your site is visible in a large number of browsers (including text browsers) and shows a level of commitment to quality for starters. Your markup (HTML/XHTML) being compliant ensures [...]
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