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The Importance Of Sitemaps

by Barry Adams July 5, 2010

(This article was originally published on the Visual Script blog.) Sitemaps are a crucial aspect of a successful website. First, let’s make it clear what we mean with a sitemap. There are two types of sitemaps: one meant for visitors of your website, and one for search engine spiders. Sitemaps for Visitors The first type [...]

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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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SEO Factors for Multilingual Websites

by Barry Adams March 19, 2010

Earlier this week Google’s Webmaster Central blog wrote about how to effectively geotarget your website. In that article they promised to discuss multilingual websites as well. And now they have. In a new Webmaster Central blog post published today they discussed the best practices for multilingual websites. Some key take-aways are: One page, one language [...]

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SEO Factors for Geotargeting Your Website

by Barry Adams March 15, 2010

One of the most important issues European SEOs struggle with is optimising websites that target different countries. There are all sorts of challenges when dealing with international SEO, such as what domain extension to use, how to structure multiple target countries on a single domain, dealing with country selection without losing link value, how to [...]

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W3C compliance – is it a requirement?

by Barry Adams March 11, 2010

A term often busied by web developers and also SEO agencies is W3C compliance. I’ve written about the benefits of W3C compliant code before, but my perspective has changed a bit over time and I feel it’s important to point out that full W3C compliance is not a definitive requirement for an effective website. W3C [...]

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Recent Writings on SEO 2

by Barry Adams March 4, 2010

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of research on microformats and other approaches to structured data. This inspired a post for State of Search where I wonder if the time has come for web developers and search engine optimisers to embrace structured data, or whether we’re better off waiting for a firmer standard to emerge. [...]

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SEO Concerns When Migrating Your Website

by Barry Adams May 21, 2009

Often when you do a site-wide update of your design, your content and/or your site structure, it can affect your website’s rankings in search engines negatively. Facing a huge site update project myself, I recently spent some time doing research on how to prepare for a big site update and ensure your high rankings stay [...]

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