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- trooperbill0
oh the other great thing about doing it this way is that your clients shop is earning while you work on the custom solution ~:D
- quamb0
thanks for advice - wish u were in melbourne, be good to hire!
- geography shouldnt be a factor if you're after global business lol... u could always hire me n bring me over lol.trooperbill
- jamble0
Here's one that's been bugging me for a while..
I often get clients asking me to "put those social networking buttons on all their pages" because they're under the impression that people will add their product or service to sites like Digg or reddit under the belief that this will be a high powered site linking back to theirs and will improve SEO results.
My thinking is that sites like Digg will simply bury the link as spam or not "newsworthy" and this could potentially have the opposite effect so the only real benefit of adding these social networking buttons to (for example, an e-commerce jewellery site) would be to make it a little easier for visitors who use a bookmarking service like delicious.
So, any thoughts on the use of social networking buttons on pages to have any sort of impact on SEO?
- making newsworthy content is easy but why not do what the digg l337 do n get some friends together to game it.trooperbill
- ill be in your digg gang if you like if you digg my posts ill digg yours etc.trooperbill
- Dancer0
Well Mr Rushworth you got your work cut out for you now.... I still have you on record to do some work on the side if you are interested?
I found this document quite interesting and good to get a few clients to read so they realise why they aren't #1 within a week of launch:
http://www.the-escape.co.uk/refe…The question I have is site structure. I always did:
Header
Nav
Sub Nav
Content
FooterI have now been advised to do
Header
Nav
Content
Subnav
Footer.What do you think?
- jamble0
Dancer, the second structure just makes more sense anyway particularly if you're building for people who might use readers etc as they won't have to read through sub content before main content.
I recently saw this as a possible alternative too: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-des… which is interesting if a little buggy in IE6 in its current format.
- Hmmm... thanks for the link... not sure bout it. Bit of a coding headacheDancer
- both wrong lol.trooperbill
- trooperbill0
@jamble reply on the site markrushworth.com
- FYI: Typo "Change" on your 3rd post downDancer
- lol thanananks :)trooperbill
- jamble0
Cheers Mark!
- trooperbill0
@Dancer reply on the blog :)
- trooperbill0
any more? im enjoying this :)
- jamble0
A quick one for you then as I'm finding it useful and it's nice to actually talk about work stuff on here for a change!
Does title text on links actually make much of an impact?
- its great for accessability tho. and useful if a links going to open a new window.trooperbill
- flashbender0
maybe someone asked this already, but I'm lazy...
If you are using jquery (or any other framework) tabs / accordians to dynamically show/hide content is the content that is initially hidden indexed?
I've had discussions with web planners and marketing types about this and they are adamant that tabs hurts SEO.
My research shos that the spiders read the content and don't give a shit about display"none or hidden and index the content normally. The only possible exception is if display:hidden is inline, this could cause problems, but if it is in class then there is not really any issues.
What's your take on hidden content and SEO?
- any inline css is easier to spot so i'd suggest never using it!trooperbill
- trooperbill0
@jamble, no title text has zero SEO impact!
- trooperbill0
@flashbender post answered on the bloggins :)
- 23kon0
best SEO tip:
Go out and buy a copy of OK / HELLO / HEAT etc each week and change your meta tags to match their headlines as these will be the stories that all the teenage girls and bored housewifes of the world will be searching for that week.This week:- "Katie Price and Peter Andre Divorce"
- hahahahaflashbender
- Peter Andre seeks solace with male strippersflashbender
- Trooperbill seeks solace with Katie Pricejamble
- indeed :Dtrooperbill
- trooperbill0
QDF (Query Deserves Freshness) is no joke people! i did a post about the virusl launched april and got 1000's of hits just for this term!
- ********0
Here's one for you trooper.
Are sitemaps worth the bother?
- trooperbill0
yes theyre worth the effort, especially if you use them as a base for froogle feeds :) and update them as and when you change your site.
- theyre a great way to get your site indexed quicklytrooperbill
- ********0
froogle feeds is now Google Product Search isn't it?
- trooperbill0
Heres a couple of good posts on optimising froogle feeds:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-t…
http://www.bestrank.com/blog/how…
njoy!
- ********0
Do you find you come up against clients that simply can not, retrospectively, change some of these things?
Like moving content above headers and nav...
Given that designers/developers are not SEO experts, when is the ideal point in a projects life-line to consult someone like yourself?