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Websites

Believe you dropped in search engine rankings?

December 10, 2009

At times at events, by email and just in casual conversations I may get asked about the changing of a website rankings in the Google search results. I often redirect these questions to this excellent document in the Google Webmaster Help Center <link> but I would like to take this opportunity to share my thoughts [...]

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Why Structuring Your Website Matters

October 20, 2009

The short answer is: “to help you visitors and search engine crawlers better understand the content of your website”. This may sound like common sense, however I find myself often surprised how many websites forget this small yet important part of website optimization. Last week I was a speaker on the Google Site Clinic at [...]

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Setting up App Engine Patch Locally on Ubuntu

August 2, 2009

Since the latest release of Google App Engine SDK, Django 1.0 is officially supported by Google App Engine and in the article Unleash Django with app-engine-patch the advantages of using App Engine Patch (which allows you to use more Django functionality on Google App Engine) are well described. However the documentation of App Engine Patch [...]

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Explore Your Back-Links. Here’s How!

June 21, 2009

In the Google Webmaster Guidelines it states “avoid links to web spammers or ‘bad neighborhoods’ on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links” and it is important to remember that this advice applies to both your forward and back-links. It is easy to control the forward-links of your website [...]

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Speeding Up the Experience of Your Website

June 6, 2009

Nowadays websites contain a lot of elements, like images, videos, CSS style sheets, Javascript (including AJAX), etc. And with HTML 5 being supported by the newer browsers, it seems that the number of elements in a single page is only likely to increase in the near future. With that in mind, it is important to [...]

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