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My articles elsewhere

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Two articles published this month - online, and in print.

Firstly I’ve had another article published over at FreelanceUK.com.

I haven’t written about SEO for a long time, and I just wanted to recap on what is happening out there with Web 2.0 and SEO. Perhaps demonstrating by following a few ethical methods for SEO, you can create meaningful content for the search engines as well as more importantly, your sites readers.

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Is Your Copy Trusted by Google?

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

It’s a forever changing job being a SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) copywriter, regarding the changing algorithms and indexing techniques by the major search engines.

The information in this post can help your copywriting become a trusted source for Google and potentially aid in increasing your rankings. Google uses many factors to determine the relevance and trustworthiness of copy. These are just a few.

Most newcomers to copywriting start by reading the blog posts of Matt Cutts began to explain that Google uses many factors (other than PageRank) to evaluate and rank pages. Matt continues to describe the use of keywords and their relationships to other page factors.

For instance, let’s say one keyphrase you’re working with in your copy is “flat monitor.” Keyphrases work best when all the words remain in their exact order. That is, when you use the entire phrase “flat monitor” as opposed to using only the single words “flat” and “monitor” individually. Matt confirms this by saying relevance and trust might be increased in Google’s eyes when the words “flat” and “monitor” are used next to each other.

Why would it matter? cont’d..

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How to create SEO Friendly Redirects

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

IIS Redirect

  • In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect
  • Select the radio titled “a redirection to a URL”.
  • Enter the redirection page
  • Check “The exact url entered above” and the “A permanent redirection for this resource”
  • Click on ‘Apply’ (more…)