This month, Google has finally given word on the recent controversy regarding the dropping of PageRank amongst those who sell links. As well as an update on the official Google blog, Matt Cutts (that guy who works for Google) has composed an interesting and informative post on the subject (Selling links that pass pagerank.) To… read full entry »

SEO, or ‘Search Engine Optimisation’, is the process of altering your pages to maximise the chance of being listed in a search engine. Based on the knowledge that you must mention a word to begin ranking for it, logic dictates that further mentions of the same word can only increase your SE ranking. (Those of… read full entry »

Nearly 3 years ago, Google released their plans to implement the rel attribute value nofollow in an attempt to combat spam on weblogs and other sites. Almost straight away, I posted my thoughts and went about hacking WordPress — which was my CMS of choice at the time — to remove any occurrence of the… read full entry »

As a great many of you were confused by my post on Google’s PageRank update late last month I thought I’d put together a very basic guide on what it is, and what it can mean for you. If I get chance I might even write a follow-up on how to improve yours (got to… read full entry »

I originally wrote this as an ‘Asides’ but as I’ve had chance to catch up on a few blogs and see the fuss this is causing I thought I’d chuck in my tuppence worth properly. Seems like on the 26th October, Google did a toolbar PageRank update. A few big names in blogging have been… read full entry »

A thread came up at Mint Pages in which the age-old question “how do I increase my hits?” was asked. Although I’ve covered the subject briefly before, it did raise an interesting point about alt attributes. (That’s right, alt attributes, not alt tags.) I’m sure you’ve heard me nagging about alt attributes before in the… read full entry »

Originally published as a SEO blog entry Tip #5: Quality Content I mentioned in my semi-satirical ‘Promoting Your Website‘ article that you should: “Have an Opinion” and “Get a Blog, Blog About Everything” and I believe this is part of the quality content thing. Quality content means content that people want to read, and want… read full entry »

Before I get on to the actual point of the post: my new domains have propagated for the majority and you can now get to my site through jemjabella.co.uk, .com, .net and .org. HOORAH. SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is the process of optimising your website to increase your rank in search engines (not just… read full entry »

Now that my idiot-induced, thobbing vein of a rage at the stupidity of some internet thieves has boiled over, I can return to normal posting. I apologise to my non-drama-driven readers for that momentary outburst. I was reading an entry over at Jeff Hendrickson Design about one of Google’s latest patent applications. It apparently covers… read full entry »

I’ve spent most of this evening so far, through the sniffing and sneezing, looking for Nintendo64 ROMs. The computer mag. that Karl & I buy pretty much every week (Micro Mart) had an article on Emulators which reminded me that I’ve been wanting to get a Super Mario64 ROM for months. Anyway, skip to searching… read full entry »