Manchester SEO on LinkedIn

I’ve recently joined the LinkedIn group, Manchester SEO. Manchester SEO is a group used for networking with other SEOs working within the Greater Manchester region. It’s not the biggest group (only 227 members) but I hope this doesn’t reflect the state of the SEO industry in Manchester!

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Speed up WordPress to improve rankings

About this time last year, the SEO community was all of a chatter when Google announced page load time was going to become a ranking factor in 2010. Being a bit of a speed freak I always like to keep my blogs and websites as well optimised as possible. Unfortunately, time becomes short and things tend to slip so when I recently ran a couple of speed tests on my blog, my jaw hit the floor when I saw a page load time of 11.73 seconds!

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SEO checklist for new websites

Whenever I launch a new website or blog with SEO in mind, I use the following checklist to make sure nothing has been missed. It’s not an exhaustive list as obviously all sites are different (especially in SEO niches) but I find that it covers most bases and ensures a quick crawl as well as providing a good footing for a sustained SEO campaign.
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The top SEO add-ons for Firefox

Every now and then I add another Firefox SEO add-on tool to my browser. I use these things every day almost as second nature but without them, my job would be a hell of a lot more difficult and time consuming.

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SEO for blogs and the iPad

So, what does the iPad have to do with SEO blogs? Well, Apple’s seemingly unstoppable push toward complete world domination shows no sign of stopping and is changing the way we use the web. A report out yesterday said that 20% of people in the UK now had a smart phone (with a sizeable chunk of them being manufactured by Apple).

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