Joe's Sem Blog

The true value of a Digg link

Joe Williams — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:04:12 +0000

With all the chatter of Google punishing PageRank for Digg stories, I thought it's worth looking at the true value of links acquired from Digg or any social news site that uses dofollow. To do this, let's consider the three types of links that Digg can help you get: 1. Primary links - direct links from Digg readers [...]

19 March 2008, the day Google’s homepage broke!

Joe Williams — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:32:53 +0000

Well maybe not entirely broken, but with only one image to get right you’d think they could manage that! Anyone else seeing this at the moment? Here are the stats of the missing image: Location: /www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif Width: 276px Height: 110px Size of File: 0 kB (0 bytes) Alternate text: Google Has Google put a slash at the start of the location path [...]

Google Website Reconsider Request, it only takes 3 days!

Joe Williams — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:54:23 +0000

Well that's my recent experience of a big site that is well known worldwide. It may be just as speedy for smaller sights too and I've got to take my hat off to Google for being so quick off the mark. Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe reconsider requests were running low for [...]

Miss SEO 2008

Joe Williams — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:27:30 +0000

We have a new Miss SEO 2008 - Kylie Johnston. Some you may not have heard of her in the wider SEO cummunity, but she is certainly up and coming in the Southern-Eastern Ohio region! Here is what Kylie Johnston had to say for herself: "I want to promote conservation, especially to youth in schools," she said. [...]

3 SEM tools you should have in your SEO arsenal!

Joe Williams — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:55:03 +0000

Here’s 3 free SEM tools that you may have not used, but should! They are relatively new to my collection: Paessler Site Inspector - a downloadable programme that is great for web devlopers and SEOs in examining a web page. HTTrack Website Copier - allowing you to download a website onto your local machine. [...]

How do you view the source code?

Joe Williams — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:37:47 +0000

Viewing the source of a website is always a good starting point when doing an SEO health check. Let’s look at a few ways: Do you use 'ctr+u' in firefox and take the old fashioned approach of checking out the code? Do you put on your xray specs to see key elements? My [...]

What’s new at Web Master Central?

Joe Williams — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:44:07 +0000

Quite a lot as it happens: You can now associate website content by the country per-domain, per-subdomain, or per-directory level "“ very useful indeed. It will be interesting to see how useful this really is. View and block potential Google sitelinks. I have experience of this taking two weeks, very useful [...]

Firefox more popular than I.E. 6

Joe Williams — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:23:33 +0000

Slightly misleading as Internet Explorer is still the most popular browser, but Firefox is more commonly used than Internet Explorer 6, just! Firefox is growing at by roughly 5% of the market share per year. This implies that 2010 could be the year that the fox out muscles Microsoft for the biggest market share of Internet [...]

New AdWords matching option discovered – ‘the bogus broad match type’

Joe Williams — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:51:00 +0000

Most PPC enthusiasts will be aware of the four common AdWords matching types: Broad Phrase Exact Negative (can be broad, phrase or exact) Here is a quick overview of what keyword matching is all about, for the non PPC folks: Keyword matching allows you to control how precise a user’s search must be to trigger your [...]

AdWords Campaign Optimizer – Optimization or Google Monetization?

Joe Williams — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:05:53 +0000

I'LL LET YOU BE THE JUDGE! Last week I spent sometime checking out the AdWords Campaign Optimizer and was left a little ruffled as to whether it was a useful optimisation tool or another way for Google to monetize on advertisers spend. It's been around for a couple of [...]