The best Keywords...

(This was posted 8 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes's ago.)

As part of how I keep up with what is going in the world of design and development I am a member of several forums.

Today the chatter has been extremely interesting as it has been about stuff that I assumed everybody knew.

‘Keywords’ are part of what a search engine uses to understand a website page. The question in the forum today has been about how to research keywords.

Here are what we would or could use:

Google Adwords – Advanced Keyword Tool

The advanced tool will give you indicative monthly search volumes but is a little limited in how it works – the best thing is it’s another thing that is FREE from Google!

Keyword Spy

Keyword Spy can let you know what other websites are doing. I will tell you what keywords a website is promoting both organically and on a pay per click basis.

Wordtracker

Last but not least is Worktracker. Takes a little more getting used to but will score a page on given keywords as well as giving you keyword trends so you can have a balanced approach.

The reality is that good development, complimented by good content should work. Keep your content original (DON’T COPY) and the search engines will respect you!

If you need any more help – just shout!

40 Years of the Internet

(This was posted 8 months, 4 weeks, 1 day, 11 hours, 39 minutes's ago.)

40 Years of the Internet

(This was posted 1 week, 5 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes's ago.)

I was sent this great article from the BBC that I just had to have on the site...

It's a little (well a lot) geeky but it's very cool and well worth a 5 min read!

Here is the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8331253.stm