SEO

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,

Devon Business Directory

Dorset Businss Directory

Surrey Business Directory

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,

Glamorgan Business Directory

Cardiff Business Directory

Newport Business Directory

Swansea Business Directory

and will be adding to these over the coming days.

Saturday, September 6th, 2008 SEO No Comments

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”

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 SEO No Comments

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 Birmingham

SEO Companies in Borders

SEO Companies in Bristol

SEO Companies in Cambridgeshire

SEO Companies in Carmarthenshire

SEO Companies in Cheshire

SEO Companies in Conwy

SEO Companies in Cornwall

SEO Companies in Cumbria

SEO Companies in Derbyshire

SEO Companies in Devon

SEO Companies in Dorset

SEO Companies in Down

SEO Companies in East Sussex

SEO Companies in East Sussex

SEO Companies in East Sussex

SEO Companies in Essex

SEO Companies in Fife

SEO Companies in Gloucestershire

SEO Companies in Gwent

SEO Companies in Gwynnedd

SEO Companies in Hampshire

SEO Companies in Hertfordshire

SEO Companies in India

SEO Companies in Kent

SEO Companies in Lancashire

SEO Companies in Leicestershire

SEO Companies in London

SEO Companies in Middlesex

SEO Companies in North Yorkshire

SEO Companies in Northamptonshire

SEO Companies in Oxfordshire

SEO Companies in Shropshire

SEO Companies in South Yorkshire

SEO Companies in Staffordshire

SEO Companies in Stirling

SEO Companies in Surrey

SEO Companies in Surrey

SEO Companies in Tyne and Wear

SEO Companies in UK

SEO Companies in USA

SEO Companies in Warwickshire

SEO Companies in West Midlands

SEO Companies in West Sussex

SEO Companies in West Yorkshire

SEO Companies in Worcestershire

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 SEO No Comments

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.

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 SEO No Comments

Searchme stack SEO


Searchme Maximize stack view
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 SEO No Comments

Large Meeting Rooms

I built a new page today for a company that specialises in finding large conference rooms

They have a large database of conference venues and know which venues have the capacity to hold larger conferences with 1000 plus delegates.

 

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 SEO No Comments

Scrap Cars in Bolton

Set up a page today to target the phrase Scrap Cars in Bolton 

With the price of scrap metal at an all time high, it’s one of those niche little phrases that is becoming more and more competitive.

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 SEO No Comments

Trampolines

Back in 2004 I used my sim64 website for selling trampolines it ranked in the top 3 at google for numerous phrases related to trampolines; 10ft trampolines, 12ft trampolines, 14ft trampolines, trampoline enclosures, etc. until I pushed things to far and the whole site got dropped.

As a quick experiment, today I reloaded about 15 pages on to the same URL’s they were on previously and over the next couple of days will set just 3 or 4 links to the main pages to see what happens.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 SEO No Comments

SEO Competitions

I used to set up pages on sim64.co.uk  for the SEO competitions but deleted them all a couple of years ago, this week I set up the old URL’s as a test to see if they would get re-indexed with minimum links.

Nigritude Ultramarine ::
Queens Speech ::
Mangeur de Cigogne ::
Serps ::
V7ndotcom Elursrebmem

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 SEO No Comments

Create a seed keyword list

Red Evolution have devised a fantastic new keyword tool which lets you create your own scenario for a search query. After creating the scenario, a unique URL is created which you can then email to friends, post on forums,  send to people to test for you, etc. These people then enter the search phrase they would use for each scenario and the system generates a seed keywords list.

An example scenario can be found here, I’m looking for somewhere where I can advertise my services and products. and you can use the same page to create your own scenarios.