DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - Search Engine Optimisation

Search Engine Sitemap Update

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:54:00 +0100

Jason Bartholme has a neat posting on pinging search engines sites when your sitemap is updated.

Flex and SEO

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:25:00 +0100

Ted Patrick has blooged about his Flex SEO experiments.

Robots.txt Generator

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:49:00 +0100

Robots.txt Generator is a handy tool that uses a web form to generate a Robots.txt file for your website. There are lots of options that make the file generation a snap! For those of you wondering, Robots.txt is a very simple text file that is placed on your root directory and tells search engines and other robots which parts of your site they are allowed to visit and index.

Check Your Site

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:35:00 +0100

The Scrutinizer is an interesting site. It allows you to analyze your site against validators, Accessibility, Alternate Access, site access and load times, Browser Compatibility etc etc. From the site:"Rather than creating direct links to various validators and link analyzers, one link can be used to submit to all of them. It simplifies the task of figuring out which application needs what type of URL (Domains only/HTTP/No HTTP) and also saves time and space by freeing up the code from unneccessary URLs."

Google Help

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:56:00 +0100

Here's some more help with Google ranking.

Is SEO Dead?

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:01:00 +0100

This guy thinks so...

Great Site Ranking in Google The Secrets Out

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:54:00 +0100

Google have recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Here are some thoughts on it's content.

Google Ranking

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:55:00 +0100

John B has some issues with Google ranking.

SEO Thoughts of Others

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:59:00 +0100

According to Kay Smoljak, "Search Engine Optimisation Does Matter".

Kay makes a good point...

"A link to a site means absolutely nothing - or even less than that - if the link's anchor text doesn't include the keyword that the site is targeting."

She also links to Roger Johansson's article "Basics of search engine optimisation".

What Does Google See?

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:29:00 +0100

Poodle Predictor lets you see your site like Google does. It simulates search engines and can help predict your Google listings.

Some More SEO Thoughts

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:21:00 +0100

I reckon Adam Howitt has it right. It's all down to appropriate content!

Search Engine Spider Test

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Here's an interesting search engine test site...

http://www.seekport.de/seekbot/

The only prob is that that it's in German, but with the help of Google you can translate it.

Site Testing Tools

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Some useful website tools as anybrowser.com

Search Engine Safe URL's

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100

I found this article first which took me to Spike's page.

I need to read this before trying it out.

[04-oct-04] Some more thoughts...
[18-oct-04] Some further thoughts from the same blog...
[09-nov-04] And this from Fusium...
[07-feb-05] Sean Corfield advertises a CFMX 7 feature...

New Theme

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0100

I've had a lot of questions recently from clients about "...why isn't my site at the top of a Google search!". So I thought I'd start a new Theme to capture any interesting articles that I come across.

The first one is the most obvious...

SearchEngineWatch.com

...and their article on optimisation.