An awesome night at the Mediabrands Christmas party and a little video of the highlights.
Content could increase rankings, even without links. Personalisation affects rankings, and there is strong evidence that click through rate does too. Content can play a role in influencing both of these, and yet there is still a fixation on links. One of the most common challenges I face with clients…
The code in this script lets you specify the domains you’re using, then simply returns the file path at the end.
This is a simple, low overhead way of creating a hreflang tag for PHP sites. I specifically used this for WordPress, adding it in the header template.
In this tip, I’m going to show you different ways your site can be blocked from being indexed by search engines. It’s important to be able to spot things that can block search engines from indexing your content because they can prevent your site from ranking. It’s also useful to…
In this tip, I’m going to quickly explain XML Sitemaps, what they do, and how to use them for your site. Whilst XML Sitemaps can be complicated, for most people’s purposes, they’re really very simple. The only tool we need for this video is a verified Webmasters Tools account. An…
In this tip, I’m going to show you how to identify the keywords people are using to find your products or services and how to include those keywords on your site to help improve rankings. Everything in this video is super simple and the only tools we’ll be using are…
In this tip, I am going to explain duplicate content, how to spot it and what to do about it. In this video, we’ll be using Google Webmaster tools and I’ll quickly explain a cool function in the web crawling tools screening pro. Duplicate content is where two or more…
In this tip, I’m going to show you how to monitor and improve your site’s load time and performance. Slight performance improvements in load times can have a big impact on user experience, affecting how long they’ll likely spend on your site and even conversion rates. Google has also confirmed…
In this tip, we’re going to looks at understanding your sites backlinks and trust signals. Understanding the way people link to, share, and engage with your content is important because these are the most significant factors in driving traffic to your site and earning repeat visits. There are a couple…
When trying to login to wp-admin I was faced by an unfamiliar white screen of death with the message “Not Acceptable” and the error code 403.
I did a bit of searching around and could find the answer that solved the problem for me. I did see a few posts about bot attacks but they didn’t say how to fix the problem.
Before I begin, I should let everyone reading know why I’m posting on Butters’ blog. I work with Chris in the same office. In fact, we’re the only two here in the Melbourne office so suffice to say a bit of bromance has developed so much so that he’s allowed…