A short while ago Lee McCoy posted bout some keyword analysis he did on a site of his that shows just how long and thin the long thin tail of keywords is on one of his sites. 76% of the traffic came from search phrases that only delivered one visitor.
OK, I thought, well there’s another [...]
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Making sense of the long tail using SEO Keyword density tools




(No Ratings Yet)How to win an A4U Award….in 2009




(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)The entries are in and now the first round of voting in the A4U Awards has been finished, the judges have each submitted their shortlists from the 80 or so entries for this year’s A4U Awards.
After ploughing through that many entries I thought I’d pass on a few tips for anyone who might be thinking [...]
Thanks to Kieron & Secret Sales




(No Ratings Yet)A quick thanks to Kieron and Secret Sales for the Emporio Armani Watch that arrived yesterday morning, a prize from their February promotion.
More valuable than the watch itself Kieron has been quick to respond with a few tips on the programme that will be useful in the next few months.
Secret Sales looks like a [...]
To go faster you have to practice going fast




(No Ratings Yet)A couple of weeks ago I went along to a triathlon exhibition to get some ideas for a cycling site I’m developing (and to drool over expensive space-age looking carbon gear), and I sat in on a talk by Mark McKay about how to get faster on your bike. The short version is, do little [...]
Using CSS to improve your SEO




(No Ratings Yet)Here’s a little trick that can help a lot with the SEO of your website by pushing all the important content right into Google’s hungry mouth.
It’s a CSS ‘trick’ which is completely ethical as all it does is rearrange the order of the content that Google sees into a more useful order. It will also [...]
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