Search Engine Optimisation BlackDog

Jumping on the Tuesday Push idea, we are going to start to give a few minutes of SEO help to some pushees. This week is the chance of Dine To Read, who offer a book club in Dublin and Galway, but also tie it in with a dinner event. The website looks great, and they are gathering lots of members every day. So here is a quick look at some SEO suggestions they could think about to help them appear higher in the search engines

Just in the door today is a nice present of our website URL in foam.

A quick look at different ways some new websites were picked up by Google. Getting your new website indexed is easier and easier these days, in fact you don’t even need to get a link from an external domain which is already in the index. Here is a quick case study of two domains that I did some testing on. Neither of the domains have any incoming links, but they still managed to be indexed.

A quick run down of some of the major search marketing search conferences across Europe in 2009. This is a list of primarily English based conferences which are known for their great speakers and top quality content. Topics discussed at them cover all aspects of SEO & SEM and even Social Media Marketing *shudder*. Feel free to add to the list if there are any ones you feel that are missing.

Sometimes you want to add the nofollow attribute to your blog roll links, but it’s actually not possible in the default install of WordPress (up to 2.7.1 anyway). Read my post on how you can add the XFN relationship for nofollow and external link attributes. This is also a help for affiliate links, where passing pagerank isn’t always

Yesterday Damien’s SEO contest came to an end and google has been very nice to my entry  mybluejumper.com . The basic rules of  the competition were to:

rank highest for the term [geansai gorm] on google.ie
domain name had to be new
.IE domains were not allowed
no keywords allowed in the domain name

And here are the results:

Hats off [...]