Posts in category: Search Engine Optimisation

Opinions: Encouraging Comments and DoFollow Links

Posted February 22 by Dan Cryer

Since I started blogging early last year, I’ve noticed that I tend to get more feedback on my posts on Twitter (and now Google Buzz) than I do on my blog itself. Comments come rarely and are far outnumbered by the number of spam ones Akismet blocks for me. Now, I don’t blog for the [...]

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IP.Board SEO Improvements

Posted January 5 by Dan Cryer

A couple of months ago, I noticed that IP.Board was starting to get a bit of a bad rap when it came to search engine optimisation. There were a lot of topics popping up on the forums asking how to improve things, and asking why IP.Board was not “ready” for SEO. I wrote a long [...]

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Google Real Time Search

Posted December 7 by Dan Cryer

Google has announced today that it’s launching real time search. Simply click the “Latest” tab in the search options menu and you’ll be presented with a live, self-updating stream of up to the second results. It appears to include Twitter, Facebook and blogs, from what I’ve seen and Google claims to be able to rank [...]

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IP.Board and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Posted December 4 by Dan Cryer

Search engine optimisation forĀ IP.Board (IPB) has been coming up a lot at the Invision Power Services forums lately. Unfortunately, as SEO is such an involved and complex subject, but also one that every web developer believes they can authoritatively discuss, a lot of misinformation is passed around in these topics and new users end up [...]

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Googling for strange things

Posted October 2 by Dan Cryer

Wade and I have been fairly actively blogging for a few weeks now, and every so often, we check analytics and webmaster tools accounts for what keywords people have used to find our sites. Finding out that he ranked number one for “anti-gravity mice” has caused Wade to go on a bit of a rampage [...]

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