From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Learning SEO

by Barry Adams June 24, 2010

Learning how to be a search engine optimiser is not a particularly straightforward process. There’s no college education you can follow to become a SEO. There are precious few courses you can follow, and most of these aren’t worth the money. So what is the best way to learn SEO and become a specialist in [...]

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Presentation: SEO for Web Developers

by Barry Adams June 18, 2010

On the most recent edition of the Barcamp Belfast conference I did a 20-minute talk about the mistakes some web developers make when building search engine friendly websites. Much of the content in that talk came from a blog post I did for State of Search about the same topic – SEO for Web Developers. [...]

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Battle of the World Cup SERPs

by Barry Adams June 15, 2010

It’s the World Cup and I needed ideas for a new blog post on State of Search, so I compared the SERPs for the ‘world cup’ keyword on five different search engines to see which one provided the best information. State of Search: Battle of the World Cup SERPs Yahoo pulls out all the stops [...]

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The Internet is rewiring our brains

by Barry Adams June 4, 2010

(This article was originally published in the Belfast Telegraph on 3 June 2010. It’s been modified slightly for this blog.) In his forthcoming book The Shallows author Nicholas Carr argues that surfing the web has a negative impact on how we think. He quotes research stating that exposure to bite-sized chunks of information, from short [...]

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