Multi-Regional URL Structures in SEO – the Pros and Cons

When I was at SMX West 2010 in Santa Clara a couple of weeks ago, I attended a session called Technical SEO. One of the speakers was Maile Ohye (one of the best Google speakers in my opinion)  who showed a very cool comparison of the various URL structures that can be...

HeadSpace Drops rel=Follow Attribute

Good news fellow WordPress junkies! John Godley at Urban Giraffe has kindly updated HeadSpace 2 so the rel=”follow” attribute is no longer implemented! I don’t know about you but having that made-up attribute on my website as a result of using...

Javascript Linking Not So Bad Anymore

If your site utilizes Javascript based navigation, you are in for a treat. Google is now able to crawl links embedded in JavaScript onclick() events. These links will not only be followed by Google but they will also now pass both Page Rank and Anchor Text value! What...

Top Posts on Search

Here are the top posts on Search from the old StepForth SEO Blog. Ins and Outs of Local Search ‘Submission to local search based engines is becoming more and more important for any sites servicing a local or specific geographic audience.’ Google Latitude...

Flash is Still Too Flashy for Competitive SEO

June 30th 2008 was a day that Flash developers had been waiting for a long time; Google and Adobe had finally announced that Flash .swf files could be crawled by Google! In fact, the extensive news release from the Adobe Developer Center also stated that Yahoo would...