Category: Search Engines

  • Statistical Nightmares

    Just finished my first week at barablu.com and we’re all expecting that the results should be coming through soon. Actually, it looks like the results are coming through sooner than we expected and in surprisingly good shape. Hopefully it’s not …

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  • What The Public Wants

    If the findings of a new US report are true, then content editors are going to need to rethink their news values. For it seems that while hardened journalists are insisting that the headlines should be concentrating on Iraq, the …

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  • The Bikini Effect

    I discovered an interesting post on SEO Blog spidersecret.com the other day, although it dates back to July 24. Headed “So what if you give most of it away?: The Bikini Concept“, it discusses the thorny question of …

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  • News from The Front

    I’m still amazed at the number of people who ask for a “splash page” on their site: preferably something with lots of animated gifs “because they look nice”. It’s become almost a mantra with me that home pages must provide …

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  • Five ways to damage your SEO with content

    1. Write Rubbish If your content makes no sense, if it’s dull and irrelevant, if not even your mother would make it all the way through, then you can be sure it will be bad for SEO. Make content interesting, …

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  • Why Content is on the Rise

    This may not yet be the Golden Age of Content, but it IS coming. Getting those all important search engine places has, until now, been a matter of juggling organic search elements. These include keyword factors like good meta tags, …

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