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Could I use the same keywords on multiple pages?

I’m not sure what to do, I’m short on good keywords for product pages on our jewellery site. In the past on the old site, I found reasonable keywords which I had to squeeze into the content. But those keywords aren’t those that people would use. I’m just wondering whether I should just use the [...]

Forum posting, same as blog commenting?

I’m a bit disappointed at my lack of progress, due to no fault of my own, with problems submitting my comments on blogs and them not appearing. Even then, if I did succeed, they could be rejected as spam. I’ve always found forum posting, something I can do and keep doing. So do the same [...]

What website stats are important and why?

I find it really hard to look at stats and information in analytics. When I do Ican’t decide whats important. Also, I never make a note and see if I’ve improved. I was thinking earlier today, that recent results have shown that generally people can use my software without problem. So I began to wonder [...]

Web Traffic at Different Times of Day

Traffic on my download site is growing quite nicely. I’ve passed the one year old mark now and the website performance has stabilitised. It’s not as good as softtester’s yet but it’s about 90% of the way there. Passing the one year mark last month seemed to make a big difference as the number of [...]

Maximizing wordpress comments with twitter

I don’t if you’ve got into twitter yet, I’m seeing a great number advantages and opportunities with twitter. Although I don’t tweet that much at the moment. Anyways I was chatting to blue earlier and then I had a look at twitter then Blue twitter page and found a comment which looked interesting so I [...]

Using what we’ve learnt about linking strategies elsewhere

We’ve discussed (at length) linking strategies for our shareware download sites. However, thinking up a linking strategy for another type of site isn’t so easy. Over the last few days I’ve been trying to come up with a strategy for an online shop. This is a new site, based on an older site where we [...]

URL Rewriting to Make SEO-Friendly URLs

On one of my sites I’ve been thinking about revamping some of the URLs. On many of the pages there are hyperlinks that map to searches with URLs like this example: http://www.domainname.com/showpads.php?search=keywords&match=Exact&&string=DVD+Converter However, I’d like to have hyperlinks/ URLs like this instead: http://www.domainname.com/featured/dvd-converter/ The main difference is that the keyword is now separated by a [...]

Good / important internal linking?

When I first began using the pad file / software approach to building links, I added those pages I’d “padded” and those I intended to, to a block of links near the top of my page. Shown circled below :- I used the guise of “recent searches” to make the block look genuine. This position [...]

Worry about duplicate content?

We’ve finally decided on a new domain name for our new jewellery shop. As I’m so busy at the moment, I’m keen to have my wife do as much as possible and learn as much as she can. However, I will need to install and setup the software. We need to transfer the license for [...]

Benefits from having a blog on your existing site?

We’ve decided we would like to add a blog to our jewellery site (although we’ll be getting a new domain and new look too). However, I’m not sure what benefit it will be to the site, sure it will bring extra content and therefore extra search terms to the site. But I’ve had forums and [...]