9/16/2010
Back in April 2010, Will Critchlow set himself a challenge, to learn enough appengine, python, yql and xpath in 2 hours to build a useful SEO tool. The resulting article describing development of the tool inspired me to start looking at other SEO related APIs, to see if I could do something similar.
4/27/2010
Having spent some time looking into keywords on customer and competitor sites, I decided there must be an easier way of collecting and viewing the data?
Checking for keywords in page titles, headers, anchor text, image file names, etc can be quite time consuming.
I started to think about how useful it would be to have a tool which would crawl a site and t...
3/18/2010
Google's "Suggest" feature is an interesting insight into popular searches - start typing a search phrase and Google will suggest popular phrases based on recent queries: (I find Number 4 in the list is particu...
2/18/2010
If you’ve not used it before, bit.ly is a URL shortening service which is popular with Twitter. Due to the 140 character limit in tweets, characters are a premium so services such as bit.ly, goo.gl, etc provide an easy way to shorten lengthy URLs.So, you’re probably wondering what relevance this has to SEO? Well after using bit.ly for a while, I’ve com...
2/3/2010
So, 2010 looks like it may the year that Google starts to push page loading speed as a factor for Ranking in the SERPS. During 2009, Google released “Page Speed” – a Firefox add-on which helps web designers and website owners optimize their sites for speed.This was Google planning ahead for the introduction of page loading times as a ranking factor, and sure...