An post to people offering SEO services I received an unsolicited email (SPAM) this morning from someone offering me their SEO services for one of my websites. The website they were referring to was my site for Sister Act Tickets. The email said, in a nutshell, that they have looked at my site, like the [...]
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Bing,
Google,
SEO,
Websites,
Yahoo
Since moving this site over to the new domain I have been getting quite a few people using the contact form to offer me their SEO services to get my site on the front page of Google. If you are thinking of doing this, think again. Look up. On the screen not literally. Look underneath [...]
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SEO
It’s something that has been known or at least suspected for a while now but to clarify things, Matt Cutts has confirmed on the Google Webmaster Central Blog that Google “disregards keyword metatags completely.” He adds “They simply don’t have any effect in our search ranking at present.” Matt explains the reason for Google not [...]
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Google,
Meta Tags,
SEO
I recently built a site using WordPress as a CMS but needed to customise the sidebar because the widget method didn’t offer the layout/features that were required. The site is TheatreLondon.org.uk [I have now changed this site since posting]. TheatreLondon.org.uk is very similar to other theatre sites that I have built using WordPress such as [...]
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CMS,
PHP,
Wordpress
I’ve been working on adding videos to some of the theatre sites for Local Nights Out and ran in to a problem with the video files not streaming. I’m using .flv files which require a flash video player to be embedded in the page which then streams the video file from any location (depending on [...]
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flash,
iis,
javascript,
video,
windows
I’ve been updating all of Local Nights Out’s WordPress sites to latest version (2.6.5) which is a straight forward process through the use of the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin that I use on all of the WordPress sites. Booktheatretickets.co.uk [I have changed this site since posting] has received some extra upgrades though which i’ll detail [...]
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Wordpress
The Digg like site that I mentioned previously is now live after a short delay. There was a number of small modifications that I had to make after further testing. One of which was fixing the styling/layout in internet explorer (as usual). The site can be found at www.blogosta.com and I have submitted a few [...]
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blogosta,
Pligg
I’ve been working on a new Digg like site for performing arts news built on the Pligg platform. I built a site on Pligg for Local Nights Out recently to be used as a review system so this is the second time i’ve used Pligg now. This new site will work the same way as [...]
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Digg,
Local Nights Out,
Pligg