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Martin Jarvis
A selection of articles to help website owners and developers
What I have learned today
My “What have I learned today” blog is a little record of the web issues I have encountered and solved, along with useful info I have gathered, helping me build better websites all the time.
Disabling javascript popup warnings
I have been using curvycorners to display rounded boxes in websites and blogs but recently I have been getting lots of popup warnings. However, I have also found out that disabling javascript popup warnings is easy.
Scheduled mailshots at Christmas – acceptable?
Is it acceptable to allow scheduled mailshots to be sent at Christmas? Should customers be given an opt-out option? What other solutions can there be around this issue? We would love to read your views.
Quick Tip #7 – Don’t just link to your home page
Don’t assume that the best place to link to from external websites is your home page. Taking visitors directly to pages relevant to their search will help your pages and overall website ranking.
Quick Tip #6 – Plenty of well-written, original content
Link building is very important in developing the SEO for your website, so why not write interesting, well-written and original content so that others link to you because you’re worth linking to?
Check the keywords that bring visitors to your website
Much of your SEO activity should focus on understanding which keywords that bring visitors to your website you want to target, but there is a secondary consideration that might be useful.
Preventing your website being penalised for outbound links
The ‘nofollow’ attribute not only helps reduce the spam content added to your weblog, but it also helps prevent outbound links from penalising your website and reducing your page rank value.
It’s not strictly SEO, but it might improve your website traffic
Twitter is nothing to do with search engines or optimising your website, but it is something that can add to your website traffic and so is worth a mention here.
Following up Quick Tip #5….
I am delighted to see that a mere few hours after posting my previous quick tip, that that particular blog post appears at #1 in Google. Proving my point…