SEO
Win a SuperCar
I tidied up my win a supercar site tonight and featured what to me is one of the nicest cars Best of the Best have offered as a prize, the 420bhp 190mph beast, the Audi R8.
Not only can you win this beauty, you also receive £6,000.00 to insure it, service it, and keep it on the road plus AN EXTRA £20,000.00 ON TOP TOO.
This post reminded me of the number 1 rule of search engine optimisation;
Check spellings are correct 
( (especially in anchor text)
Stairlifts
When my old sim64 site was doing well I used to have 3 or 4 pages on it about Stairlifts The pages themselves were never very nice, and because I never added a statcounter to the pages I don’t really know if they received many visitors.
With this in mind, I quickly set one page up on UKSBD and this time added a counter to access whether it is worth putting more effort in to the pages.
ThE MaSKed SeO
Who is the Masked SEO ?
You’ve got to fight for high rankings
With all the tricks you know
It’s right to fight for high rankings
To live life fast not slow.
As long as our sites hit the top
Then no one can do more
Back link building must not stop
Or else we drop to four.
And we should never count the cost
Or worry that we’ll drop
It’s better to have fought and lost
Than to be a PPC flop.
There will always be another phrase
If google local takes your place
Keyword research for a couple of days
Then get back in the race.
You’ve got to fight for SEO
For all that you believe
It’s right to fight for SEO
To live the way we please
As long as we have done our best
Then no one can do more
And life and love and happiness
Are well worth fighting for
They’re well worth fighting for.
A darkened room
UK
PR & Marketing Services in the West Midlands
I set up my West Midlands business directory page earlier today and included some information about a company that provides PR & Marketing Services in the West Midlands.
The West Midlands has always been a tricky area when setting up listings, as a lot of people would rather be in a Birmingham category rather than a West Midlands category, I think this must one of the reasons why I never initialy had a West Midlands page and why I had to create a new one.
Sitemaps for big sites
One of my directory sites is getting close to having 50,000 listings in it and each listing has its own unique page. To enable the search engine spiders to reach the individual pages better I have set up links to every single page, bur because there are so many pages, I have had to create numerous different pages to do this.
I know the search engines say to keep the number of links on a page down to about 100, but had I done this, it would have meant creating 500 pages. Instead of doing this, I decided to create 100 pages with 500 links on each page
It’s not an ideal way of doing things, but with big sites like this I find multiple sitemaps is the best way of doing things.
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Glamorgan Business Directory – South Wales
Before I started building dynamic pages using a database I used to just build static HTML pages and created numerous different county pages like these,
Lincolnshire Business Directory
Warwickshire Business Directory
etc. etc.
Unfortunately though, I never got around to building pages for the Scottish or Welsh counties, which is a bit ackward when calling yourself a UK Business Directory.
With this in mind I started building some new pages this morning for South Wales and especialy the Vale of Glamorgan, I started of with a Glamorgan Business Directory and then found a county map of South Wales and started building other directories for surrounding Welsh counties.
So far I hace built the following,
and will be adding to these over the coming days.
SEO Code of Practice
A new SEO code of practice announced by NRAC looks set to set new standards in the Search engine optimisation industry.
With an ever increasing number of companies claiming to specialise in search engine optimisation, the uninitiated client can find it almost impossible to know a good SEO from a bad one.
The results of paying for the services of a bad, or unethical SEO can be disastrous for small business owners, and can sometimes result in their website being penalised, or even removed from search engines.
The new NRAC SEO Code of Practice solves the problem small business owners have of choosIng an SEO and gives them the security of knowing their SEO is using ethical methods and are working within guidelines laid down by the major search engines.
To find out more about the code of practice please contact tj@nrac.co.uk
target=”_blank” bad for SEO
Made a discovery today which could effect anybody who uses target=”_blank” when they haven’t got their URL’s configured right.
Here is an example,
http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/business-listings.asp?strCompanyName=Wheelchair%20Ramps%20UK
Anyone reading this will see that the spaces between “Wheelchair Ramps UK” were left in the URL but the browser converts these so it reads “Wheelchair%20Ramps%20UK”
This page links to the above page where it says “See their main details below.” http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/x-telephone.asp?CompanyID=18091
Nothing strange so far, the spaces are converted to &20 and http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/business-listings.asp?strCompanyName=Wheelchair%20Ramps%20UK is indexed fine by google.
Now try looking at this page, http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/y-telephone.asp?CompanyID=18091 again follow the link where it says “See their main details below.” but when you get to the page look at the URL!
This time the spaces are left in the URL.
After a bit of testing I soon realised that the reason the spaces were not converted to %20 was because the link from the 2nd page was using target=”_blank”
UK SEO Companies
Sorted through the SEO Companies registered in one of my main Business Directory sites today and arranged them in to a county search facility.
SEO Companies in Aberdeenshire
SEO Companies in Bedfordshire
SEO Companies in Berkshire
SEO Companies in Cambridgeshire
SEO Companies in Carmarthenshire
SEO Companies in Gloucestershire
SEO Companies in Hertfordshire
SEO Companies in Leicestershire
SEO Companies in North Yorkshire
SEO Companies in Northamptonshire
SEO Companies in South Yorkshire
SEO Companies in Staffordshire
SEO Companies in Tyne and Wear
SEO Companies in West Midlands
Venue Hire – Venue Search
I decided to go back to basics with a venue hire page and remove 90% of links to other pages that tend to just confuse site visitors.
As it is providing information about venue search and how to find a venue which hires out conference rooms I decided to keep it short, to the point and not try to make it an all in one page.
This tends to be the problem when the company provides numerous services, they often like to have every service they provide on every page of their website, which can make optimising one page for one subject a little trickier.
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