The easiest way to find what has been posted on Pinterest from your website by other Pinterest users is to use the following url.
http://pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.co.uk/
So to see all pins from www.beadazzle.co.uk
goto http://pinterest.com/source/beadazzle.co.uk/
Other pinterest boards
Just put Graham’s Images Blog live. Built in wordpress the Blog is being used as an SEO tool to target visitors from Graham Photo Events to his main photography site: Batmitzvah and Wedding London Photographer
Weddings, Bar/Batmitzvahs and parties london
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Nice article on how you should be setting up your Linkedin companies pages for organic traffic.
http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-linkedin-to-improve-organic-visibility-90219
plus +1 on webmaster tools
It looks like Google Plus +1 has made an appearance on Googles webmaster tools this morning. You can see The number of unique visitors that have +1 a page on your site. Also the search impact of the +1 button appearing in the SERPs.
Just checked a page from the gapco.co.uk site to see how it has indexed on Google and noticed that not only did google ignore the meta description for the search result snippet but also now explains on the page previe where the snippet text has been taken from.
So in this example it is taken from two different parts of the page.
<title>Buy Subdecay |BABY QUASAR | Effects Pedals | GAPco</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”Mega Deals on Guitars, Amps, Effects Pedals and Power Supplies at our online store. We sell Electro Harmonix, Rivera, Fulltone, MI Pedals, Subdecay” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”SubDecay” />
http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-instant-previews
You can post a link on your twitter status and facebook wall, but it would be nice to know how effective this link is and how many people clicked on it. One way is to have Google analytics installed and configured on the landing page, but you may want to see stats for links to pages on different sites not owned or managed by you too.
One easy way to do this is to use Google new URL shortener. www.goo.gl. I recoemmend that you use this service while logged into your Google account, as you can then see a history of the URLs you have shortened before.
So for example I want to place a link to our Zone1 Creative page for ‘Website Design‘ which has been SEO’d for ‘web site design brighton’.
I take the url http://www.zone1creative.co.uk/website-design-brighton-hove-sussex and place it into the google url shortener and get given a short URL – http://goo.gl/5bxJF.
I can then log into Twitter and post a message with a link about website design in brighton.
Just updated our site portfolio with our latest #websitedesign projects http://goo.gl/5bxJF
Then once you have posted the tweet, you can click on the shortened link to go through to the Zone1 Creative site. The go back to www.goo.gl and you will see in the url history that there is one click against your new url. Click on details and you get a break down of where the link was clicked, as other people could retweet it, post it on facebook etc.
The details page also gives you a 3D barcode that can be used on your site or on paper work and product designs. Not sure how many people actually use 3D barcodes but it seems like all the major corporate companies are using them on product packaging and flyers.
Backtweet allows you two find out what tweets have been posted in the last 4 weeks that link back to your site. You can use this tool to see which tweets create the best retweets and backlinks.
One of the biggest challenges that online businesses face today is maintaining relevance in the eyes of the search engines, especially Google. With Google controlling more than 90% of the search traffic in the US alone, it’s not surprising that the most important goal of any web-based marketing strategy is to be number one in Google.
It’s a well-established principle that on-site SEO is one of the most basic building blocks every business needs to have as they start on the road to search engine domination. So it makes sense to add another string to your own marketing bow as a web designer and incorporate some simple SEO strategies into every web design you deliver.
Here are nine ways to improve the SEO strength of every website you design.
keyword analysis guide
Nows the time before september to christmas rush to start reviewing your sites keywords. Here is a handy guide on what to do.
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/right-keyword-analysis-website/
One of the lesser-known jewels of HTML 5 is link prefetching. The idea is to extend the time-honored concept of image preloading to HTML content (and without any messy AJAX code).
Here’s how it works: You add a line like this to your page:
1 | <link rel="next" href="page2.html"> |
Then the browser automatically downloads page2.html in a background process as soon as the user’s computer is idle. When the user finally clicks a link to page2.html, the browser serves it from the cache, and so it loads significantly faster.
Link prefetching is currently only supported by Firefox. But since Firefox is the second most popular web browser in the world, you can noticeably decrease load times for a significant chunk of your users just by adding one line of code to your HTML. Pretty cool, huh?
Here are some ways you could use link prefetching:
* Anytime you split content across multiple pages, as in large articles, online tutorials, image slideshows, etc.
* On your homepage to preload whatever page your users tend to click on next. (That could be the “features” page on a product site or your most recent entry on a blog.)
* On a search engine to prefetch the top result.
You can also use it for static content using the prefetch rel:
1 | <link rel="prefetch" href="/images/big.jpeg"> |
A couple other interesting points:
* Link prefetching will probably pop up in Opera, Chrome and Safari soon, and in Internet Explorer sometime around 2020.
* If this becomes popular it has the potential to skew logs and stats. Consider what happens when a bunch of prefetch requests are made to one of your pages, but the user never actually visits the page. The server (or stats package) doesn’t know the difference.
To clear this up, Firefox sends along an HTTP header,
1 | X-moz: prefetch |
, but you need some logic on the server side to detect it.
To learn more about link prefetching and see other examples, see the article about it on Mozilla’s site: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/link_prefetching_faq