Speed up your website
It is very important from both a web design and an SEO point of view that any website you create should display as fast as possible, giving the user the best experience and catering for those with slower internet connections. There are quite a number of changes you can make in order for a website… Continue reading Speed up your website
301 Redirects
Redirecting a website or webpage can be important for a number of reasons, site redesign, change of domain name, business rebranding etc.As far as the search engines are concerned there should only ever be one form of redirect, and that is via the “301? method. Any other form of redirect is considered bad form and… Continue reading 301 Redirects
Jackie French Koller
GetPage Pagination
GetPage is a very useful extra for Modx that allows the pagination of results, most of the time generated by the GetResources extra. It’s pretty straightforward to use however by default there isn’t really any thought given to the duplication that will result from it’s use. There doesn’t seem to be much about this on… Continue reading GetPage Pagination
Supercache and the permissions of Doom
I’ve been using a great plugin for Modx Revolution recently called Supercache which expands on the existing caching system and for complex sites can improve the performance of the website substantially. So far so good, except the caching was so good it didn’t want to give up the cached files and trying to delete them… Continue reading Supercache and the permissions of Doom
Isaac Asimov
And todays question comes from…
Some time ago, I submitted a few questions to Google’s head of Webspam and spokesperson, Matt Cutts for his regular Q&A videos. Today Matt has actually answered one of those questions I asked (I wonder if he realises it’s Lancaster in the UK rather than California?). Interestingly his answer goes some way to supporting the… Continue reading And todays question comes from…
The Best search engine according to Google
With more than 80% share in the search market, you may be forgiven for thinking that Google would consider itself to be the best search engine, but strangly they don’t. Ok so if they don’t think they should be number 1 for search engine it must be Bing, or even Yahoo surely? Erm, no actually,… Continue reading The Best search engine according to Google
Very poor results in (say) Google
In an update to the previous post, Google’s Matt Cutts has finally answered commented on the question asked back in July: “Why are the UK SERPS still really poor with irrelevant non UK sites (US/Aus/NZ) ranking very high Google.co.uk since early June? You can see his video over at the Google Webmaster central video channel,… Continue reading Very poor results in (say) Google