Posts Tagged ‘search engine optimisation

A hand-picked number of people have recieved their invites from Google. Media outlets around the world are running press releases, stories and speculation. All because Google have finally thrown their hat into the social ring with a full blown social network. And it’s called the Google + Project. No, we don’t know why it’s got [...]

Beating Blue Monday

17, Jan 2011

What better way to start the week than to learn that’s today is “Blue Monday”, the most depressing day of the year? Well, here at the FirstFound Blog we can think of dozens of better ways to start the week. But is Blue Monday really as bad as people make out? In order to find [...]

Today marks the start of the Get Online campaign, a government initiative to get the nine million UK residents who’ve never used the Internet to log on for the very first time. Running from the 18th to the 24th of October, the Get Online week initiative is aimed at showing the elderly and less well [...]

Google’s Toolbar PageRank (PR) has a mixed reputation amongst SEOs. Some say that it is deliberately misleading, as it has no relation the PageRank algorithm that determines listings. Others however, find a use for it. Here at the FirstFound Blog, we’ve found that it can be useful in identifying sites to request links from. PageRank [...]

The World Cup is trying to teach you something. You might not be able to hear it yet, over the drone of the Vuvuzelas and the muttering of Mick McCarthy, but it’s speaking to you. Despite the sponsors, it’s not telling you to drink more cola, move your money to a particular bank or wear [...]

The top 5 most important considerations for an effective link building campaign from naturally generated links won for good content, to social media and creative link building strategies to future proof your search engine optimisation strategy for 2010.

Today, Google announced a recent ‘sophisticated’ GMail attack on their servers from China. They claim to have uncovered evidence that the goal of the attack was to access the private GMail accounts of Chinese human rights activists which have long been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. A Pivotal Moment for the [...]

Today I will be discussing some of my favourite, must-have iPhone Apps for Internet and network debugging, SEO and Web ranking tools, telnet and secure shell (SSH) clients and MySQL database access that every self-respecting Web developer, SEO consultant and network engineer should have!

When is it time for a website redesign? The FirstFound official blog takes a look at various design, layout and usability factors and how they can affect search engine optimisation (SEO) and your conversion rate.

Early data from research firm comScore suggests that yesterday was actually the second busiest online trading day in Internet History. Cyber Monday 2009 broke Christmas shopping online sales records, but is this a seasonal trend or is there a more subtle, on-going shift towards Internet sales? If so, how do you ensure you are getting the most out of your website investment?


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