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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Recent Writings on SEO

by Barry Adams February 24, 2010

Aside from this blog and my occasional contribution to the Belfast Telegraph, I also write for a number of search engine blogs. I don’t want to simply reproduce the articles I write there on my own blog here, but at the same time I do want to flaunt them a bit. So from now on [...]

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The unlikely persistence of Email Marketing

by Barry Adams February 17, 2010

(This article was originally published in the Belfast Telegraph on 17 Feb 2010.) Almost as soon as email was invented, it was used as a marketing instrument. The first unsolicited marketing email was sent back in 1978, and since then spam has continued to grow exponentially. It’s estimated that today 90% of all email is [...]

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Use Social Media sites effectively, or not at all

by Barry Adams February 15, 2010

Social media is the current Big Thing, or so we’re told. You have to Tweet! Be on Facebook! Get Linked In! But do you really? Is it necessary to be on every social media site and shout your message as loud as you can in to as many microphones as you can find? Social media [...]

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Site Migration SEO Concerns – The Results

by Barry Adams February 8, 2010

About nine months ago I was facing a sizeable site migration project at my employer at the time, and I was tasked with mapping out the best way of handling this migration to minimise the impact on our search engine rankings. I wrote a post summarising my research into the SEO aspects of a site [...]

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