Sitemaps for SEO

November 3, 2008

Having risen even higher up the Google rankings for Bristol SEO (currently showing at number two) I checked my rankings out on Yahoo! and Live.com. It turns out that as anticipated I am nowhere. One of the first things I did back in August was to submit my site to Google Webmaster Tools, but I [...]

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Bristol SEO update

October 24, 2008

My little experiment to see if I can rank for Bristol SEO seems to have paid off. Despite not having done any work on my blog since August 12th, and having a grand total of one link to the blog, which is in fact an internal link, jamesmorell.com ranks 8th in an unersonalised Google.co.uk search [...]

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Unexplained absences

October 23, 2008

I’ve been fairly obviously pretty busy recently – hence the lack of posts. I’ve been deeply involved with the relaunch of TotalFilm.com and the design refresh on T3.com. Both of these projects have now come to a close, but of course, the project coming to a close means that a digital marketer’s role is only [...]

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Bristol SEO experiment

August 12, 2008

Before I forget, part of the point of this blog is to see if I can get myself to rank for the search term Bristol SEO by following a few pretty basic rules on SEO and setting up a wordpress blog. At present there are 866,000 entries for Bristol SEO in Google, 2,810,000 in Yahoo! [...]

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Multiple redirect hell

August 11, 2008

The issue has been pretty swiftly resolved. Having had yet another look at my htaccess file I figured out that because I am using the aforementioned redirection plugin it was messing with my custom written htaccess file and doing essentially the same thing twice. Easy – remove the custom written one and let the redirection [...]

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Sorting out htaccess, moving wordpress to another directory and the Thesis theme

August 10, 2008

Having finally managed to sort out my issue with .htaccess – I’m using the redirection plugin by John Godley – see his page on WordPress redirection here I decided to move the actual main part of the blog to its own subdirectory on the server as described in the WordPress documentation on moving the wordpress [...]

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Setting up a spanking new blog

June 29, 2008

So I decided to set up a brand new blog to test a few bits and pieces of SEO work out and as an intellectual exercise as much as anything else. So far it has proved to be a massive ballache. I went for hosting with mediatemple as I’ve used them in the past and [...]

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