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Anchor text – The perfect SEO example

by Paul Savage on July 10th, 2009 // 5 Comments // //
Posted in: SEO

I read an interesting story about the use of Anchor text on incoming links which to me not only highlights good marketing but also great SEO without much effort.

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What is Google Page Rank?

by Paul Savage on July 8th, 2009 // 2 Comments // //
Posted in: SEO

When dealing with the area of SEO, you will at some point come across Google Page Rank. There are a number of misconceptions about what it is, what it does, and how valuable it is when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. Hopefully I can make it a little clearer in this post.

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Tiny URLs / Short URLs

by Paul Savage on March 25th, 2009 // 5 Comments // //
Posted in: SEO, Social Media

There are many URL shortening services out there, all of which do a similar job. TinyURL, Owly, Bitly, Trim, all of which are popular on social media sites like Twitter to keep the character length down. But just how helpful are they for SEO?

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Top 10: Web sites for your small business.

by Paul Savage on March 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // //
Posted in: Top 10

There is a lot of talk and supposition about which websites you need to utilize for your own website business.

The following 10 essential websites are all very useful in their own right for promoting your website, building links and for bringing in new business.

If you signup to all of these sites you’ll need to keep on top of things and check them regularly, but your time should be well spent.

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Follow us on Twitter and Facebook…

by Paul Savage on March 17th, 2009 // 2 Comments // //
Posted in: Social Media

As you will have seen from the website, we are on Twitter. You can follow us by popping along to http://www.twitter.com/designerspider/ and click the Follow button!

You can join our fan page on Facebook by visiting http://www.facebook.com/pages/Designer-Spider/52080623156

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Welcome to our new Blog!

by Paul Savage on March 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // //
Posted in: Welcome

We have eventually found some time to set up of our own blog – dedicated to website design, website optimization and related information.

Nothing spectacular in this posting, but just to let you kow there will be regular updates covering various aspects of news, tips and advice. That’s all for starters, remember to bookmark the site and visit us again soon!