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User Journey Segmentation – from “new non-brand” to “registered brand” visitor

Tweet — DESCRIPTION: Each user starts the journey from being a new visitor to a website. New visits are attracted by either brand or non-brand campaigns resulting in “new non-brand” or “new brand” visits.  The goal is to convert new visitors into ideally “registered brand” users. Users of different type should be a subject of customised [...]

Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:02 pm by mm · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Natural search, SEO Strategy, Site architecture

Google’s Hidden Interpretation of Robots.txt

Tweet Update: Google has confirmed the behaviour and provided detailed documentation. The original Robots.txt syntax was pretty straightforward. You could only use the Disallow directive to exclude pages and each Disallow directive acted like a broad match at the end. This seemed pretty intuitive to most people and for a while the world was a [...]

Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:03 am by chris · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Google, Robots.txt, Site architecture, Webmaster Tools

Google clarifies duplicate content issues

Tweet Google engineer Greg Grothaus clarified a number of issues around duplicate content in a video posted on the Webmaster Central blog. He confirmed that there is no direct penalty as a result of duplicate content as in most cases it is accidental. However, they can still have an indirect negative effect on your SEO [...]

Posted on September 19, 2009 at 6:32 pm by chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Natural search, Site architecture

Configuring an SEO friendly WordPress blog

Tweet We selected WordPress to power our blog as it’s a fantastic platform that you can configure to your SEO heart’s content. The standard installation needs a few plugins and tweeks to make the most of it so here is our essential WordPress checklist. Domain, Subdomain or Subfolder This is always a tricky choice to make [...]

Posted on July 30, 2009 at 11:21 pm by chris · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Natural search, Site architecture