Posts in the Search Engines category

• Does Google have a spellcheck?

  06 January 2006 by Clive Walker

  One of the best methods (we think) for getting to the top of Google is to write good website content on a frequent basis (let’s say, update your website once a week). Does Google reward websites that are well-written with good punctuation and no spelling errors? Does Google have a spellcheck?

• Create a simple sitemap page

  16 December 2005 by Clive Walker

  You’ve just implemented a nice website JavaScript dropdown menu that consolidates all your webpages under specific categories. It looks real neat, you launch the website, the Googlebot visits – and 2 months later, none of your pages are indexed except for the homepage!

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• Search engine optimisation and website stats

  17 November 2005 by Clive Walker

  It’s often difficult to measure the success of any website search engine optimisation. Whilst you can implement conversion tracking tools for ecommerce websites and for search engine Ad campaigns, this is not always applicable for brochure-type websites.

• Three things to avoid if you want a good Google ranking

  08 September 2005 by Clive Walker

  We were asked to look at a couple of websites recently and offer some advice about Google/search engine rankings. The websites were not being listed by Google despite the fact that the type of business was not particularly over-represented in the listings. Should be easy, right?

• Do I need to use Google Sitemaps?

  30 August 2005 by Clive Walker

  Google Sitemaps is an interesting idea that is currently being Beta tested by Google. Well, actually anyone with an account can participate. As a web designer or webmaster, do you need to use it?

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• How important is Google PageRank?

  18 July 2005 by Clive Walker

  Google uses a method called PageRank (PR) to decide how important a website is – but just how important is this? We would say that it is becoming less important…

• Search engine friendly ecommerce templates

  27 April 2005 by Clive Walker

  We often get asked about search engine optimisation for existing ecommerce websites. Unfortunately, there is often no easy answer to this because search-engine friendly features need to be built into…

• Google AdWords

  10 November 2004 by Clive Walker

  We have had a few clients ask us about Google AdWords because this can be an effective way of appearing near the top of Google listings (particularly for competitive keyword terms).

• Search engine optimisation

  26 August 2004 by Clive Walker

  There is no ‘top secret’ to search engine optimisation of a website. Your website needs to have good content and it needs to have clean search engine-friendly code to ensure that the most important keywords are presented to search engines as efficiently as possible…