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Yahoo Site Explorer is no more, it’s gone, no more, so long! You served us well, free access to backlinks on our sites, and on our competitor sites (didn’t they love that) to specific URLs or whole domains. Yahoo site explorer has now been integrated into Bing Webmaster tools, but really the functionality is just [...]

Panda Update 2.6 November 2011 Looks like Google search results are starting to change as a result from Google’s revised indexing process called Caffeine which was put to work in June 2010 and a new freshness ranking algorithm – so is this Panda Update 2.6 November 2011?. The idea behind the Caffeine indexing change was [...]

Tutorial on how to set up and install Piwik Piwik is an open source easy to use web analytical tool which provides stats in real time and all the other bells and whistles of analytical reporting. The three key CMS players WordPress, Drupal and Joomla have plugins/module that get your site up and running in [...]

Changing WordPress SEO OK the time has come to change my WordPress SEO plugin , I want to change over to use the Yoast SEO Plugin.  I have been using Platinum SEO up until now, but I can’t help noticing more bells and whistles that the Yoast plugin comes with. The developer Joost de Valk [...]

Well I got my page rank back to 3 when Panda came a knocking once again, so basically it was dropped for about 1 month from the first round. For the keywords “coolest guy on the planet” the site is currently flitting between No.s 10/11 on Google and No.s 1/2/3 on Bing/Yahoo. The  focus page [...]

Avoid any content duplication and ensure Google opts for a particular version of your site when indexing – fix up your redirects to choose either http://yourdomain.com or http://www.yourdomain.com by putting in a 301 redirect. There is a possibility that failing to this may create duplicate content and be penalised by the Googler You can get [...]

My site got hit by the Panda 2.2! Ouch! Panda dropped my Pagerank from 3 to 0, I didn’t even see it coming. Panda 2.2 has been doing the rounds since June 2011, Matt Cutts said it was coming but I didn’t realise how hard it would hit. Coolest guy on the planet has had [...]

What are Permalinks in WordPress? How to you change them to be Search Engine Friendly? After you have made your blog visible to the world the next thing to do (or actually preferably before!) is to change the permalink structure in WordPress. Universal WordPress URL Setting Permalink is short for Permanent Links and this is [...]

Does the keywords meta tag really matter anymore? Is it important for SEO? Should you bother with It? Deciding on and putting in the all important keywords into the meta tag keyword in your html head used to be life and death of getting a better ranking on the search engines. Spending ages strategizing over [...]

A while ago I posted about the top 10 websites ranking for the keywords that average across the big three, the only tool I found to do it “for free” was the tool from Bruce Clays website. Now having got into the top 10 in both Yahoo and Bing and just sitting outside of Google, [...]