Web Design

Seo Education 101 Part 7 – The Importance of Anchor Text

Posted by David Wiltshire on July, 20th 2010

Whenever you create a link to one of the pages on your website, whether it be from another page on your site, or somewhere else across the internet, you will have the opportunity to use optimized anchor text.

When a search engine spider comes across a link, they depend on the link’s anchor text to tell them what the linked page is about. Using the keywords that you want to rank for in your anchor text is extremely important!

Here is an example of anchor text:

To gain more backlinks be sure to check out my website….

The anchor text used in the example above was “backlinks”.

To learn more about anchor text, I suggest reviewing the Video.

Wordpress SEO Advantages

Posted by Dave Wiltshire on July, 2nd 2010

Juno have recently made it their policy that any site they build or manage from July 2010 onwards must contain a WordPress or Joomla blog.

WordPress is our favourite blogging software as it’s so easy to use, flexible in it’s design, has lots of great plugins and is perfect for SEO.

Anyone can add content (by posting) or edit pages of their website once WordPress has been set up correctly; Juno gives their clients the opportunity to run their own website themselves.  Some web design companies charge extortionate rates for small changes to a site such as updating a menu or a adding in a special offer.

When you create a new post on WordPress Juno ensure that these things occur:

A new page is created which Google can index

The Advantages of SEO

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 19th 2009

Before we go any further, I would like to talk a bit about the many advantages of SEO, and why you absolutely need to be applying it to your web design.

Advantages of SEO

TRAFFIC!
Makes your website more friendly and more likeable
Most people don’t do it!
It will increase your profits

As you can see, there are several reasons why you should be doing SEO. To hear me talk a bit more about each of these reasons, be sure to check out the Video.

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Is Your Blog Working As Well As It Should?

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 19th 2009

Exactly as with any other marketing scheme, when you produce a blog to advertise your business, you want to keep track of your results. This will let you see how effectively blogging is functioning for you and in addition to let you see what alterations you need to make to produce a more effective blog.

Stage One: Keep Track of Your Blogging Results

The first stage in determining how well your blog is functioning as a marketing tool is to measure your blog’s potency:

Keep track of other blog references. A blogroll pertains to the practice of linking up with like-minded blog pages from one article. Just as you’ll want to link to other blogs from your blog, so others might choose to offer a link to your blog. This kind of linking assures more hits and assures that your blog will

Why Blogging is So Popular?

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 19th 2009

Name one person that doesn’t like to share his or her point of view, and you will have just named nobody at all. The point of the above exercise is to show the simple fact that everyone likes to talk about themselves, and what they are up to, even if they say that they do not like doing so.

There is something about being human that makes us self involved to the point where we truly feel as if others want, or need to know what is going on with us. Blogs offer one a unique way to express his or her feelings on any number of issues, with a shield that only the internet can provide.

The most common use of a blog is that of a journal, or an opinionated piece of writing involving some aspect of the author’s day

Introducing Our New Membership Website

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 18th 2009

Today is the day i finally launch a personal site. I have been working on getting the site ready in Magento for a while now and finally it is finished and ready for a little SEO! It is a membership website filled with Ebooks and Articles as well as software and web video… all with either Full Private Label Rights or Master Resell Rights.

What you will be getting for your annual fee:

10-20 New products every month
1000’s of Articles
Full Right to resell any & all products we offer
Use products for any purpose that you wish
Change the Original product as you wish

This service has been changed. Please visit our web design website

Introduction To Seo

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 17th 2009

As many of my regular readers know i am currently running a traffic generation series containing over 50 videos.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and is essentially the process of designing, building, and promoting web design with the search engines in mind.

The purpose is to rank well in the search engines, which will then in turn provide you with organic search engine traffic. Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important if you ever want to gain decent rankings in the search engine.

Even though the word SEO can sound terribly intimidating, actually applying it to your blog is no where near as hard as it sounds.

All you have to do is invest some initial time into learning the basics, and soon your blog news will be better than 90% of the

My Top 25 Favourite Twitter Tools

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 17th 2009

Twitter is a great service to help boost traffic to your web design, but it would be nothing without the other sites, tools, and apps that help you get the most out of it. Here i highlight 25 of  my favorite Twitter add-ons.

Dont forget to hit the Tweet this button just to the left of this post and get a link back to your twitter page.

Desktop Applications

TweetDeck – Probably the most popular one. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. To do this All Tweets are saved to a local database.

Twitterlicious – Twitterlicious is a Windows application that makes using Twitter more fun. It handles all the hard work, leaving you to read and write tweets with the minimum fuss. Best of

SEO Directory Submissions

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 16th 2009

Submitting to directories is an easy way to get some decent backlinks to your web design. Directory submissions are old school and not as effective as they use to be, but are still worth your while, especially if you just focus on the top directories.

Besides finding niche specific directories, here are a few worth checking out:

http://www.dmoz.org
http://www.webworldindex.com
http://www.worldwidewub.org
http://www.insidehits.com
http://www.seowebdirectory.co.uk

To see me talk a bit more about directory submissions, please view the Video.

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Criteria For Taking Good Affiliate Program

Posted by David Wiltshire on January, 16th 2009

One of the most essential affairs about affiliate marketing is preferring right programs to join. There are particular criteria to look for in order to specialize the good from the bad. Here are great points to help you choose.

• Firstly control the product. The greatest performing affiliates in reality use their sponsor’s products and recognize them well. Know the market that will claim these products and how to make a need for them.

• Find out the company carefully

• Not everyone can give high end products so unless you are cozy with special markets who can yield high priced goods stick to the average market of $10-$500. It will be easier for you to promote products in this place.

• Commissions: Be sure the company is offering a decent percentage. Do not accept anything below 20% as it is not worth it.

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