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Link building

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:24:56 +0000

Shareworld is at the stage now where we’ve done a lot of work on seo – we have a good site structure, regular news items, the site is almost completely valid HTML.

Our next big target is link building – which is proving a very difficult task – we have toyed with link building services such as direct link ads and text link ads – two services that offer paid for link exchanges, but after Reading up on the subject I found that google does not condone these services.

As much as I think they do work, I don’t want to get into bad habbits, so it’s back to the drawing board for our link building strategy – we are picking up natural back links over time but it seems such a hard area to actively work on – whilst also sticking to the rules… Comments please.

Measuring your website

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:17:22 +0000

Does anyone remember Silktide Sitescore? It was a website testing software that would measure your website based on many variables – such as valid code, PR, text to image ration, meta tags, load speed and several other factors. Silktide closed down several years ago, but now they have re-launched the service as Nibbler. The new version has many more factors that it will measure. Although uts easy to get carryed away trying to improve your score, I think its a great tool for checking your website – especially when you are concerned about search rankings – all you ned to do is type in the url of your website and Nibbler will score it out of ten, based on many factors – it gives you a great insight into how well written your website is.

Top Tools for Website Optimisation

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:10:13 +0000

XML Sitemaps – For creating sitemaps of your website

Google Webmaster Tools – Submit your sitemaps here and check for indexing errors

Twitterfeed – automatically post your RSS feeds to Twitter

Trade Doubler – The one place for all of your affiliate programs

W3C Validator – Check the validity of your website

Web Page Analyzer – Website speed analysis tool

Browser Cam – Check your website in a massive selection of browsers for compatibility issues