http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog Website design Blog Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:30:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today Google has announced Google's SEO Starter Guide that says We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing. There are also "pitfalls to avoid" that are listed ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/techniques-to-avoid-best-practice-seo-by-google/ Techniques to follow for on page search engine optimisation Domain names: It seems that having a domain name with a keyword may have a benefit. File Names / File Paths / URLs: As with Domain name used with keywords may have a benefit. Header tags: Page titles are one of the more influential things to use ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/seo-on-page-optimisation/ Squidoo has been rattling my cage lately, so finally I've gone off, had a look, thought about it, and started a lens. It's more of a try out and to see what happens so my seo knowledge is going to provide the basis of said page. http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/finally-getting-around-to-making-a-squidoo-lens/ What's up with Wordpress 2.6 upgrade Upgraded to Wordpress version 2.6 today and unfortunately, the blog collapsed giving 404, page not found errors on every post. The site was hosted on a wind-oze server where .htaccess was not allowed and so I used a custom permalink as in /index.php/%postname%/ as the recommended ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/wordpress-upgrade-404-errors/ I was recommended to getClicky by a colleague the other day. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now and am impressed so far. It’s a great alternative to google analytics, and has some really good features. You have to register to use it, but it is free to ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/web-analytics-and-statistics/ I've seen a lot of statistics on the most popular browser and most popular operating system but I thought I'd have a look at the stats I have access too and see is there any differences. I have several sites with stats and took hits from each to show the percentages ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/browser-stats-and-os-stats/ I have a page that hasn't been cached for a long while despite changing it regularly and updating the xml site map. It looks like it's a duplicate content issue that took a while to find, but that I hope I have resolved. Bunging a link in here to the ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/web-design-services-uncached/ Those nice people at Mozilla, as well as releasing version 3 of the Firefox browser in the next few days are also going to try for the Guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. I'll certainly be one of the downloaders, it's a much better browser than ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/firefox-release-3-download-day-june-17th/ Every once in a while I get to work with some absolutely delightful people and this is one of those occasions. Panthers are a long established Bristol kickboxing club who wanted a website to promote their club and communicate with their members via the internet. They approached several designers, ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/kickboxing-website-launched/ Without much effort this page should reach the number one slot on google for crowdedalliances. So the question is how did that happen. Easy really, there are no other listings for crowdedalliances! The point is that if there is no competition and, more importantly, no-one searches for crowdedalliances therefore it is ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/ranking-high-easy-with-crowdedalliances/