May 7th 10 Posted by Robert Dicks

Off page SEO keyword best practices

Off page anchor text (the text in links to your site from other sources) is one of the biggest components used by search engine ranking algorithms. You should ensure that, wherever possible, inbound links point to pages on your site with the appropriate keywords contained within your anchor text. Of course you cannot fully control the inbound link anchor text but you can keep a close eye on back links into... read more

Apr 13th 10 Posted by Robert Dicks

Take a screen shot or screen grab on the iphone

Whilst writing my blog post on Opera Mini for the iPhone I realised that quite a few people have asked me how to take a screen grab of the screen on the iPhone. Well its quite simple… Hold down the home button and quickly press the button at the top of the iPhone. The screen will flash and if your sound is on a ’shutter’ noise will be heard and hey presto you will find your iPhone screen... read more

Apr 13th 10 Posted by Robert Dicks

Opera Mini for iPhone and Ipod Touch

Opera Mini was finally cleared by Apple yesterday and made it into the App Store overnight (Monday April 12th 2010). There has been allot of will they won’t they speculation surrounding Opera Mini on iPhone with Apple seemingly digging their heals in over recent months and for a while we all wondered if Opera Mini would be rejected from entering the App store. Opera Mini Tabbed Browsing Thankfully not... read more

Feb 11th 10 Posted by Robert Dicks

Difference between bounce rate & exit rate

I have been asked on a number of occasions what the difference is between bounce rate & exit rate, especially now that Google Analytics is so widespread. Indeed many people I have spoken to believe both exit rate and Bounce Rate mean exits from your page / site. Well that is true to a certain extent the difference being that the exit rate differers slightly in that the exiting visitor may have... read more

Jan 21st 10 Posted by Robert Dicks

Use Safer Browsers Says France and Germany – Internet Explorer Exploited

Internet Explorer Microsoft have confirmed that Internet Explorer was used in the December cyber attacks on Google and some other outfits and this has led to calls from France and Germany to use safer browsers. However Microsoft has stated that Internet Explorer 8 is one of the ‘most secure browsers on the market’ these attacks exploited a security hole in Internet Explorer 6 however, Microsoft... read more

Nov 13th 09 Posted by Robert Dicks

How Google Ranks Pages

In the simplest term “PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value” So a link from page A to page B is a vote by page A for page B. This is a very simplified form and Google goes on to explain: “Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes or link in a page. It also analyses the page that cast the... read more

Nov 13th 09 Posted by Robert Dicks

Simple Techniques for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

There are many simple techniques you can deploy when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but all SEO techniques have the same end product that is making your website more visible to people who are carrying out organic searches on search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask Jeaves to name but a few. Google of course is the leader of the pack and many webmasters are keen to get to the top of... read more

Nov 6th 09 Posted by Robert Dicks

Matt Cutts Talking About Wordpress and SEO

Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s SPAM team he gave a very interesting speech at WordCamp in San Francisco (Summer 2009) on Wordpress and its great SEO advantages. Matt went as far as saying that: WordPress takes care of 80-90% of (the mechanics of) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) This is an impressive quote and indeed his speech not only impressive throughout bit... read more

Oct 15th 09 Posted by Robert Dicks

Wordpress iPhone Application

I downloaded the Wordpress iPhone app the other day after Robert Mills tweeted about it (@RobertMills on Twitter). I couldn’t wait to fire it up and start blogging away right from my iPhone. The first thing I had to do was to enable XML-RPC services on one of my wordpress blogs to enable the app tos peak to it which was no problem at all. Having done this I quickly connected to the one blog I was... read more

Oct 6th 09 Posted by Robert Dicks

England Vs Ukraine to be internet only

England’s World Cup qualifier in the Ukraine on Saturday 10th October 2009 will be shown on the internet with people paying at least £4.99 for the privilege. I personally think it is a shame if we end up going down this route especially with such a pitiful broadband service in many areas of the UK. When a game is shown on Satellite TV a large proportion of the population have no access to the match... read more