April 13, 2007 – 10:48 pm
I thought it only fair while learning all about Open Search technology that I wrap up and let loose a Page Strength SEO Tool search plugin for Firefox/Internet Explorer users!
I use this tool to measure site ranking metrics on a frequent basis and as I continue to align myself within this field hope to add [...]
During the week dLook are expecting to release their “More information” pages for all business listings to provide additional information to visitors.
This detailed page - accessible through a prominent icon within search and category listings - will include a ramp-up of business data including:
Phone
Fax
Address
Website (only available to premium listings)
Email address
Mobile number
As well as, and here’s [...]
Google Analytics Support sent a fantastic reply during the week to my query over how Analytics tracks traffic across 301 Permanent Redirected/302 Temporary Redirect pages (eg. http://www.michaelvisser.com and http://michaelvisser.com.au).
Support recommended to enter the same tracking code (eg. UA-692602-1) on the redirecting page as well as subsequent landing page. What needs to be established is whether [...]
A recent article of mine has been published in seomoz’s UGC, during the piece I’ve highlighted strengths within the active Web builders’ sector as well as notable shortcomings that need to be addressed focusing on defining Quality Assurance procedures.
Have a read, QA within the Web development sector.
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UltraEdit
My anything editor. Be it markup for a HTML template or opening some never before seen file ending in an alien extension, UltraEdit’s my choice. [...]
Check that slick looking URL out, it took some fiddling and an hour of downtime to get this site to the stable state it is now in. Here’s the run through of how to convert your http://www.* format site URL (http://www.michaelvisser.com.au) to a single canonical source http://* (http://michaelvisser.com.au) for SE spiders.
Update your WordPress site details
Apply [...]
I can’t have been the only one to notice Australia lacking a definitive list of free and paid local Internet business directories!
I’ve crawled the most popular terms and sifted through some terrible directories while compiling this article but here it is, use it for good.
I have applied notes to directories that apply link condoms (rel=”external [...]
Let’s step back and start at the basics, in order to understand these element properties it’s best to remove any background confusion. Internet browsers (eg. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Camino, …) typically apply their own default values to page elements, this is done to create a standard experience across non-styled pages. We need to disable these [...]
March 17, 2007 – 10:07 am
This weeks articles are from SEOCLASS and seomoz’s Blog/User Generated Blog (the staff of seomoz don’t write it so its not one source really…).
11 Local Search Tips for New York City Websites - SEOCLASS.com
A great primer on building links with local organisations/directories and use of localised terms.
My Fantasy Baseball Addiction Parallels Why I Love SEO [...]
You: “Pesky spammers filling up my comment moderation queue… this’ll teach them!”
WordPress: “You don’t have permission to do that.”
So it’s more widespread that I first thought, this permissions issue applies when attempting to delete a category, remove a comment as well as adding a category.
Deleting a post or page
From the Mange > Posts or Manage [...]
