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RIP MyBlogLog

The world didn’t end on the 21 May 2011 as anticipated by some! Tomorrow (24th May) also is unlikely to be the end of the world however it is significant in the Blog world; Yahoo’s service called MyBlogLog will cease operation (it’s been on the cards for a long time)! I had been using MyBlogLog [...]

10 Steps – SPEED up your WebSite

Load speed of WebPages is increasingly becoming important, not only for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but also because people are becoming ever more intolerant of slow Websites. As Internet network speeds have increased (ADSL, 3G, WiMax etc.) so content of Websites has increased therefore negating some of the benefits of faster networking. The obvious question [...]

The SEO Experiment

What difference does Search Engine Optimization really make? Is it worth spending the time and money on SEO? From experience it is obvious that SEO is an effective activity however I thought it’d be fun to compare two identical websites; one with a bit of SEO performed and one with very little SEO. I have [...]

Twelve Simple SEO Basics (Part 3)

Twelve Simple SEO Basics (Part 3)

In parts one and two of the dozen simple and effective SEO essentials the following Search Engine Optimization tips were described; fresh Content, text styles and formatting, descriptive URLs, sites linking to your webpages, Sitemap.XML, Robots.txt, Meta Tags and validating HTML. In the final part, the following are illustrated; Social Networking SEO, DMOZ, page load [...]

Add FoaF to Your Web Page

Add FoaF to Your Web Page

Following on from my previous post ‘Friend of a Friend, the Semantic Web and Web 3.0‘ , it is worth adding how FoaF may easily be integrated into any Web Page (including Blog Posts in WordPress, Typepad, Drupal or any other platform). One of the challenges of FoaF is it’s simple to have many RDF [...]