Search Engine Optimisation

Last SEO test today

This time the SEO test is a bit different.

Again it is to see how long it takes the search engines to find a brand new page, but this time the link to the new page is in the blogroll of this site in the sidebar.

Google

Bing

Yahoo

Just a quick Search Engine Test

I decided to set up a brand ne Test page for 2nd August 2010 to test which (if any) search engine picks up a brand new page with only 1 link to it first.

The Dates the search engines first index the page (if they do) will be listed below.

Updated 15:06

Google

The new page being linked to received a google cache within 10 minutes of making this post, but is not yet returned in theis SERP’s

No sign in Bing yet

No sign in Yahoo yet

Updated 20:06

Google

The new page being linked to received a google cache within 10 minutes of making this post, and is now appearing in the Google SERP’s

No sign in Bing yet

No sign in Yahoo yet

SEO Experiments

I will be setting up some more seo tests on my seo experiments page on sim64 later today to test the indexing speed of the engines

Free SEO Reports Provided

The UK Small Business Directory are looking for a number of SEO companies who are prepared to provide free SEO Reports to business owners who express an interest in this service.

The UK Small Business Directory added the a question
“Would you like a FREE SEO Report of your current website?”
to their registration page at 11:00 on 26th July 2010

By 14:00 the same day they had 15 people ticking the box to say they would like a free SEO report.

If you run a SEO company and would like to be considered please comment below or contact tj@uksbd.co.uk

Do External Links Help SEO

I’ve always believed that having a number of external links on our websites to related websites has always benefited our SEO campaigns.

A few months ago one of our sites that has been ranked number 1 in google for the last 5 years dropped down a few positions.

Initially I tweaked the onsite optimisation, but no joy.

I then did a small linking campaign, but again no joy.

Earlier this week I decided to have a look at  the external linking and set up 3 new links to authoritive, information providing sites related to ours.

Today the site went back to number 1

Optimizing an Established Site

Read an interesting post over at UKBF today where someone was asking about optimizing an established site that is already doing well but wants to go to the next level.

It was the sort of question which sums up exactly why I don’t really do SEO for other people anymore.

The reason why I don’t do SEO for other peoples sites, especially well established sites, is that I have always considered SEO to be a form of gambling.

Basically we are always doing as much as possible to gain those top rankings, but always have to rein things in a bit so as not to overstep the mark with the google webmaster guidelines.

Now if I’m optimising my own sites I am still gambling, but this time gambling with my own property, if I’m stuck in number 7 on google, but are determined to get top 1 or 2, it is up to me if I push things a little further, i.e. do a bit of heavy link building, write some anchor text link rich articles, a bit of blog commenting, forum posting or pull in some favours from various networks.

Although these things are technically against the google guidelines you can bet your bottom dollar the 6 listings above you are doing similar and if you want the top spot you have to decide if it’s worth taking the risk, and if you do take it, just how far you’re prepared to push it.

Search Engine Optimisation

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When registering with UK Small Business Directory you receive a unique reference number, simply contact us below quoting your reference number to unlock the route to higher search engine rankings.

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When was the Google Florida Update

Looking back at some of myold sites I found some which were obviously pre the Google Florida update.

H1 to H5 all contained the same keyword, alt attributes of all images contained the keyword, every link to the site contained the same anchor text, and the text of the page featured the keyword far too often.

It got me thinking about just when was the google Florida update and after lookin back at some old writing I was amazed to see it was Mid November 2003.

It was not long after this that I started using Sim64 for my SEO testing until eventually that got hit by the minus 30 penalty.

I often think about where I would be now if I hadn’t pushed Sim64 to far.

 In it’s heyday I was earning in excess of £1, 000 a week just from a few affiliate programs  I was running on it, had I not pushed it to far, and if I had of  known back then what I know now I could have easily doubled, probably trebled what I was earning from  it.

What it did teach me though was not to have all my eggs in one basket, not to rest on my laurels and always to remember we are just on borrowed time when relying on Google.

Although 80% of my income still comes from one main site I now also have 40+ other sites tickling along and have a system in place so that if my main site should get hit by an update similar to the Florida update it shouldn’t take me long to get things back on track.

BBC Session ID’s indexed by Google

I have noticed in the last couple of days that BBC session ids are being indexed by Google.

Don’t really know the implications for SEO yet but will be looking in to it more.

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