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The Many Uses of Microsoft FrontPage
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Some of us are old enough to remember the early days of the World Wide Web, when we had to hand-code our websites and there were no such things as ‘grid layouts’ or ‘responsive design’. In this stone age of web development, many companies launched so-called WYSIWYG HTML editors that allowed you to [...]
Five common WordPress problems and the plugins that solve them
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Guest post by Lior Levin Are you having problems with your WordPress installation? The great thing about WordPress is that there’s a plugin fix for almost any problem you have. Here’s a list of plugins that solve common problems we had with our blog at Kitchen Stools Direct. 1. Search engine optimization (SEO) [...]
WordPress site migration: Stage 1 Redirects
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Recently I was conducting a piece of work on one of my WordPress sites that involved setting up lots of redirects. Rather than installing ANOTHER plugin I decided I wanted to do it properly, using .htaccess, rather than slow my site down some more! Unfortunately, although this initially seemed like it would be [...]
SES Day 3 – Twitter Automation
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Now we have a talk from Jonathan Allen (@jc1000000) about how Search Engine Watch time the distribution of their tweets. Jonathan admitted that he didn’t like Twitter to begin with he used the analogy “Twitter feels like a party with everyone hanging around in their own groups”. The point he was making was [...]
Faking a poll result, the spammers view
{lang: ‘en-GB’} This is a guest post from Paul Madden (aka @seoidiot – and one of the nominees for most influential) further to the fun and games from last weeks automated voting. These weren’t done particularly well, so as a result we thought we would get in the experts for next time …. Some of [...]
10 Non-UK Search Professionals you should be following 2010
{lang: ‘en-GB’} This was supposed to be the accompanying post to the post last year, but for a number of reasons (primarily work related) this never got done. This year the work is still there, but I promised myself I would get this done. From the start this isn’t going to include any of the [...]
10 UK Search Marketing people you should be following 2010
{lang: ‘en-GB’} About this time last year, I did a post on 10 search marketing people you should be following on Twitter, which was very well received. Twitter is now a year older – and significantly more popular – and I thought it would be an interesting post to revisit that initial post and include [...]
If you pay peanuts – you get monkeys
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Before I start with this post, I will caveat the below with the fact I used to be one of the organisations offering SEO for £200 a month, and this post represents the fact it is not possible to outsource SEO in a competitive sector without paying a reasonable amount of money. I [...]
The Adage 150 – The UK Top 5
{lang: ‘en-GB’} I recently noticed some traffic starting to come though from AdAge albeit from a fairly lowly 700+ position at present which got me thinking as to who my fellow UK search marketeers were within the Adage list – but to be honest playing in the upper echolons of the Adage framework – with [...]
Optimising for the Google Plus Box
{lang: ‘en-GB’} As many advertisers are probably now aware Google have been testing a new set of functionality within the paid search ads whereby products associated with an advertiser can be retrieved via clicking on a plus icon next to the paid search ads – refered to (you will be amazed to know) as the [...]
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