http://www.comptonsolutions.com Search Engine Optimisation Comment and Solutions Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:17:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A great video here that's we've embedded from Seomoz which has Tom Critchlow from Distilled giving a step by step guide how to carry out a SEO site review: SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday-SEO Site Reviews Step-by-Step from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. The tools that are mentioned are: - SEOmoz SEO Tools - Live HTTP Headers http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/07/12/how-to-do-an-seo-site-review-step-by-step/ The Google keyword research tool used to be a bit coy about the results it gave, there were no acual hard figures, just comparative levels. Well today the tool has been update and gives much more exact visitor numbers from June 2008 onwards. Keyword research just got much, much, much more simple! See ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/07/10/google-keyword-research-tool-suddenly-much-more-acurate/ I have been an avid watcher of videos posted by well known SEO’s ever since they started appearing. Until recently I only watched them embedded into people’s pages. Yesterday I thought “hmm, there must be more of these on YouTube” as YouTube is where all the SEO’s host their embedded ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/07/05/great-seo-videos-that-no-one-is-watching/ When you are looking for the services of an SEO it's because it's a service you can't do for yourself (usually). However we all know that SEO done badly can cost you dear, either you will get a poor service that does very little and achieves nothing, or an SEO ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/07/03/looking-for-an-seo-heres-some-advice-from-google/ Ever wondered how much traffic a competitors website gets? Well now there is a way to find out. Google Trends has been extended to now cover traffic data for individual websites with Google Trends for Websites. You can now see trend for daily unique visitors for any website with a reasonable ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/06/24/google-trends-now-covers-websites/ We've recently noticed that we are getting lots of comments received on blog posts at this site. Most of it seems to be down to the fact that we follow our links in comments and this has been noticed and publicised, and now we are getting flooded with one line ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/06/21/blog-comments/ There has long been speculation that Google would enter the affiliate sales market, and it's first foray would appear to have shown itself in the past few days. A search for "secured loans" on Google.co.uk http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=secured+loans&btnG=Google+Search&meta= Shows a very interesting feature at the top of the paid search results: Clicking through you ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/06/02/google-the-affiliate/ You've spent hours and hours coming up with great META DESCRIPTIONS for your pages, thinking that you've got the right hooks in there to pull people in. Then Google comes along and decides it's going to pull what seems like some random text from the body of the page and ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/05/22/snippets-getting-your-goat/ Microsoft has dropped it's bid to buy Yahoo as the two companies cannot agree on a price for the internet firm. Microsoft claim to have increased their offer by $5bn to $47.5bn whereas Yahoo were after a minimum price of $53bn which was more than Microsoft were prepared to offer. Microsoft boss ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/05/04/microsoft-drop-bid-for-yahoo/ One of the accepted truths of SEO today fell as Google announced that Googlebot (the software they use to crawl and index the web) now has the capability to fill in and submit HTML forms on webpages. The basic way it will work is to take prominent keywords from the website ... http://www.comptonsolutions.com/2008/04/14/google-to-start-crawling-html-forms/