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Search Engine Optimisation blog posts by The Design Loft
Setting Up Your Website For SEO Success
Jan 27th
I’m a huge believer in getting to know my client’s processes, business goals and background. I think it gives me more scope to deliver a higher quality, and more effective website.
And when I say more effective I mean all round; search engine wise, lead generation wise, usability wise and so on.
When I build a website I consider various things before I’ve even started to build it, all encompassed in the broad headings I’ve given above.
But what about the build? How best to tackle that? I’m sure that every designer or developer has their own traits and techniques that make them More >
£99 Google Adwords Reseller Scam – Are Your Clients Affected?
Jan 26th
I’ve heard from a few clients recently about them receiving marketing or telephone calls from “Official Google Adwords Resellers”.
And it’s not just me, a few marketing buddies have also heard this.
So, what’s it all about?
A “reseller” calls up your client and offers them a guaranteed listing on page 1 of sponsored listings, with unlimited clicks through to their site, all for a small fee of £99.00 per month.
The biggest culprits of this so far seem to be Matchmaker Marketing [link removed due to an apparently malicious script being present on the target page - pointed out by a reader, thank More >
Should You Tweak Your SEO Now That Google Personalises Search Results With Web History?
Jan 22nd
There’s been a lot of hype recently about Google’s Web History functionality. If you’re not sure what that is, I’ll try an explain:
As a “guest user” of Google (i.e. you’re not signed in with your Google Account credentials), all of the web searches you perform are logged, and stored for a period of 180 days. The click throughs that you make based on these searches to any given website will then affect how that website is placed in your personal SERP (search engine results page) for any related searches. Following the 180 days, old entries are displaced by newer searches More >
Designing In The Browser – A New Way For Web Designers?
Jan 18th
Howdy
Is designing in the browser the new prototyping method of choice for customer focused web designers? Well, I’ve been reading up quite a bit on designing in the browser recently; “live prototyping” if you will.
There are plenty of arguments for and against this, and in all honestly I’ll likely still mock up my designs in Photoshop, test drive them with the client and then slice and dice ready for some nice HTML on the desktop.
However, the pros and cons of designing in the browser are well worth a read, there’s a great post on “Making Your Mock-Up In Mark-Up” over More >
12 Blogs You Must Subscribe To If You’re A Web Designer Or Search Marketer
Jan 13th
Everyone loves a good read, don’t they?!
As web geeks we have to keep our skills up to date and keep on top of what’s going on in the web world. There are daily changes in best practice when it comes to things like SEO, and with Google keeping us on our toes with their winter 2009 changes, we really do need to keep our finger on the pulse. Urgh, buzz talk.
I have to admit; I subscribe to these feeds bu never get chance to keep upto date with everything that the authors publish. It’s a crying shame – but, I More >
10 Essential Tips For Marketing Your Blog
Jan 11th
This is quite a new blog, as of time of writing; like any other decent blogger I’m looking at how I can make this blog a quality resource for people to keep coming back to.
Of course, there are thousands (millions?!) of blogs out there, and choosing the ones you regularly read comes from looking at a number of factors:
- Does the blog contain information that interests you?
- Does the blog get updated regularly?
- Is it a collaborative style of writing or does it employ more forced opinions and discourage comments?
- Does it look good?(!)
Of course there are far more factors influencing whether you bookmark More >
