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Wednesday 25th June 2008
5:07pm

Things to avoid with marketing agencies

Beware of online marketing companies who... Promise particular search engine positions, often very high or not specified for which terms. They just can't promise anything of the sort, and is a classic sales tactic of less scrupulous companies. Charge levels for a monthly fee for SEOIt just doesn't work this way. Although easy for their accounting and billing it generally leads to, and is based on poor value SEO work. SEO will generally involve a initial lump of work, then some specific link finding/brokering & placement or well placed content generation over the course of time.
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Tags: PPC Web-Marketing Bad SEO


Friday 12th September 2008
12:31pm

Multiple Sites in Adwords

Many companies manage multiple websites, each offering different services. In some cases, these services will be related to one another, in other cases they will be completely separate operations. How Adwords should be managed and arranged between them is a very interesting question.
 
First of all, our experience shows that different sites under a single adwords account does not, in general, cause problems. However, it is worth being careful in some circumstances where it does make a difference:
 
Long Established Account Where you have a long established account in good standing, that account has a certain history which can be of benefit for launching a new campaign. This is typically only worthy of consideration where your campaigns need to be fast and ag…
 
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Tags: adwords sites


Monday 7th January 2008
8:58am

Link Baiting - an introduction

Here at Alloyfish we've mixed feelings about bait, but there's one kind of bait which we unanimously support: link bait. Far from being a tasty treat containing a barbed ticket to the deep frier, link baiting is a positive way of engaging with the wider internet community whilst raising the profile of your site. See this extract;   "As much as you find your flea-ridden begging and wildlife chasing cat adorable, I cannot stand seeing it climbing into my garden.  You have never asked permission to use my garden for exercising your cat, and if you cannot control your cat then you need to keep it locked.  His next visit will be his last.  I have a large
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Tags: link baiting simple baiting


Sunday 13th January 2008
12:00am

Image Search Optimisation

Your site probably has plenty of images, at least it should. Images really pull a site together, so long as they are relevant. For most of us, the images we use are licensed from other people - this means that you aren't the only one with them. Image searches don't like to show duplicate images. They only show one source for one image. This means that to get your image listed, you may need to use some SEO sense: Size distinguishes images - offer the images scaled to sizes other than the original. Not only does this show you have different images, but it means you show up under images searches for small, medium and large images.
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Tags: Image search Image Search Optimisation ISO


Friday 10th October 2008
12:34pm

Google Crawls Forms

It used to be part of SEO 101 that search engines don't use forms. For quite some time now, Google has been testing filling in and submitting forms, and the results are already in the index. When Google started, dynamic sites were the exception to the rule – today, even simple personal websites are more likely to be a dynamic wordpress blog than a static GeoCities page. With dynamic pages comes the ever-present temptation to add forms to everything – and that's just the kind of thing that attracts the innovative engineers at Google.
 
The way in which Google crawls forms is by taking keywords from your page, inserting them to the form, and then submitting them to the landing page. By doing this, Google hopes to uncover content which is languishing in your databas…
 
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Thursday 24th January 2008
1:10pm

Good is not good enough

"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough", or so the saying goes; and as sayings go that one will go far.  Good enough was only good enough when you were the only game in town and that town only had one horse.  Even then, good enough was never really very good. Today's world demands excellence.  Every sector can be neatly divided between excellence which generally has the lion's share of the market, and good enough which bumbles along just about making ends meet.  Gone are the days in which you could sell good-enough at the price of excellence based upon a lack of competition.  Welcome to the global marketplace where there is competition for everything, and your competition may well be paying just pence an hour.  Good, cheap and fast; pick any one to target as a market advantage, so long as it's not cheap.
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Tags: quality websites excellent websites making a successful website


Monday 10th December 2007
3:16pm

file_get_contents()

Crazy long list of styles here!
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Monday 18th February 2008
5:04pm

Ethical and Effective Link Building

Links are the 800lb gorilla in every search engine optimisation (SEO) proposal.  As professional optimisers we would much prefer if links were entirely unnecessary; in theory a good site, presented well, should rank well. Links matter and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.  It doesn't matter if you're starting a small hobby site or a large corporate site, your search engine rankings will suffer enormously if you solider on without garnering any links. I put the word ethical in the title of this article for good reason; building links can be achieved through a vast array of
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Tags: link building ethical link building seo


Thursday 27th March 2008
1:27pm

Dealing with Black Hat competitors

Complaints about unfair tactics being used by competitors are certainly not uncommon.  Black Hat SEO techniques do work and they are able to deliver great rankings.  This leaves those of us who depend upon White Hat SEO feeling frustrated and angry.  Fortunately, there is a solution in most cases as the strength of Black Hat SEO is also its greatest vulnerability.
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Tags: black hat SEO


Tuesday 18th December 2007
11:15am

AJAX, the mystery begins

Let's talk about true and false.  Ah, basic boolean?  No, not exactly.  AJAX is one of the most common buzz-words in website development today.  True.  Most web-developers are able to write AJAX.  False.  Most web-developers who create fancy 'AJAX-effect's know how to write AJAX.  False. Pick up a book on AJAX, and often as not it will start off by telling you that the key to AJAX is 'this' framework or 'that' library.  Ooops... that's not teaching you AJAX, that's teaching you how to use a tool for setting up dynamic interaction.  The AJAX was written by the guy who created the framework or the library. What's so special about AJAX?  To be honest, nothing.  It's elegant; but what it gains in elegance it loses in both speed and support. More true and false.  AJAX is the only way to set up asynchronous communication with a server.  False.  AJAX is the name for things which aren't Flash but look like Flash.  False.  AJAX requires ActiveX support to run on Internet Explorer, the disabling of which has long been highly recommended to all.  True.  AJAX is fast.  False
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