Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Welcome to our Team

To help bolster my department as Web Guru / SEO / Godlike Genius at Click 4 Beds and Distinctive Chesterfields we've recently expanded our team with 2 new peeps who each bring their specialist knowledge and reputation for excellence to our little family.The lovely Sarah is our new Editor in Chief and will be responsible for all the attention grabbing headlines, excellent copy and fact laden resource articles that I'm sure will be popping up shortly. Sarah also hates it when I don't capitalise...

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Do Meta Keywords Tags Work in Yahoo Search?

A recent post on SEOMoz titled SEOmoz's New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data they state that DJ Paisley has provided evidence that the Yahoo search engine does in fact, still use Meta Keywords to help rank a site, a result that Rand et al have re-tested and report to be accurate albeit a minor factor.The question is how many keywords and how often do you repeat... My preference is 6 times however many stick with 3... the choice is yours!

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SEO Advice: Help with Andrew Litten.com

John AsksThe site is www.andrewlitten.com and to be honest I think he'd be pretty happy just to be on page 1 with the term 'Andrew litten'. I wouldn’t have thought that would be too hard - but alas six months on and I'm still not getting anywhere with this one.Any help would be greatly appreciated.My Advice:As you're not after a majorly competitive term it shouldnt be too hard. Heres what I recommend:Try and get the words Andrew Litten in the body copy of this page (possibly a copyright...

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

iPhone 2g os3.0 Verdict

ive just updated my 2g iPhone to os3.0 and...Not Working no video :( no mms yet (waiting for settings from o2) no shake to shuffle no focus on camera no voice commandsWorking White Balance Works Cut, Copy & Paste Works Landscape Keyboard Works Spotlight Search Works (swipe right from the home screen to activate) Voice Memos WorksThought video would work at least, thats really gonna mess with my head

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Soding iPhone 3.0

With the update to iPhone v3.0 of the OS due to be available in the uk from 5pm, ive been sat in iTunes since 5pm (its now 10.30 pm) and have clicked UPDATE roughly every 1/2 hour with the same old response of Marks iPhone could not be updated at this time as the activation server is temporarily unavailable I'm getting really annoyed now and almost ready to rip the phone from its tether and hurl it through the window of my study into the woods outside the back of my house.WORK DAMNED YOU, FOR...

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Posted by Mark Rushworth at 10:31:42 PM in Blog (76) | Comments (1)

Optimize Images using Smushit

I've been all to well aware that Photoshop and Fireworks image optimisation systems leave a lot to be desired... up steps a new(ish) service called Smush It which takes any image (and whole websites) and re-compresses the images using lossless techniques to maintain the quality of images whilst decreasing the file size and download times (great if your on a host with capped bandwidth or working on low bandwidth platforms like mobile media).I've tried it on a few files including some high resolution...

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

iPhone 3gs Tariff - I Don't Get It?

I'm mad keen to get the new iPhone 3gs having loved my 2G phone lovingly brought over from Taiwan just for me (Hi Treker). I'm currently on the o2 £20 per month rolling contract tariff and when looking at the new 3gs tariff things just don't add up.I'm torn between buying a new phone on PAYG and keeping my current monthly tariff which gives me unlimited texts, data and 1200 mins call time (way more than is available even on o2's top iPhone 3gs tariff) or to stump up the £100 and £35...

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