Archive: seo

Very comprehensive list of link building strategies, some great inspiration for anyone looking to boost their SEO. Mostly common sense though a few interesting ideas you may not gave thought of. http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies More Reading:Stage Gear – General Site ImprovementsHow 10,000 Geeks break the UK’s biggest distributors, RS and Farnell (Raspberry Pi)Magento URL Request RoutingCrawl an [...]

Magento is a typical PHP Model View Architecture (MVC) system which routes its URLs in ways not particularly different from other PHP MVC Frameworks like codeigniter, symphony etc. But the difference it has with other MVC architecture is that most of its routing directives or configurations are XML based i.e. found in one XML file [...]

On occasion, google and other tools will tell you there's errors with your sitemap.xml file and not give you the information of what exactly is wrong, so we wrote this little tool to crawl the sitemap and check for 301 redirections and 404 errors. It is a noddy file and should have much more error [...]

A really easy problem to fix that we still see on some live sites is having the site accessible with and without the www (or whatever sub domain). On Magento sites this can cause issues with session IDs being appended to URLs that then get indexed by google and cause problems. Here is a snippet [...]

Magento redesign with added functionality This project asked for new functionality to be added to an existing magento site, whilst modifying the design. The changes included modifying the layered navigation, the home page slide show and the layout of the category page. An SEO report was also produced for the site Bent Shop The Bent [...]

Stage Gear – General Site Improvements Stage Gear needed a number of aspects of their OSCommerce site improving, including the look and feel, the addition of SEO URLs to improve site ranking, improving search on the site and adding basic Facebook integration. Stage Gear Stage Gear is a company that specialise in retailing sound and [...]

We are big believers in the power of blogs and regular blog posts to boost the SEO performance of sites. Especially ecommerce style sites that can sometimes struggle to get the kind of SEO focus that is required to rank at the top of the search engine results pages. For this reason we have recently [...]

Google's latest incarnation, dubbed caffeine is set to improve further the quality of Google search results. The focus seems to be on more real time search, fresher content being boosted to the top of the rankings. So just when Microsoft thought they were giving Google a run for their money with Bing, Google take the [...]

I have recently been working on shoehorning a large amount of data into a Google Adwords account for a client. Looking at setting up unique ads for around 50k products (targeting in stock products only so this is just a slice of the full catalogue size). I have managed to figure my way around the [...]

Just used this system to scan a site for correct Analytics setup. It's a decent enough service. You have to sign up your email address to get the report. If you don't want to give out your real email address you always have the option of using a disposable email address such as GuerillaMail.com http://www.sitescanga.com/ [...]