Jul

19

Wordpress 3.0 is quite new and there are only a few themes kicking around that are 3.0 compatibile. We’ve found some decent ones here -> http://wpfeed.com/2010/06/wp3theme-free-wordpress-3-0-theme/

Wordpress is our favourite blogging platform. In it’s latest incarnation it’s added stacks of great features to make it even more powerful!

Get Wordpress 3.0 from downloading here.

Jul

3

Articles are quite good for SEO and gettting your message out there, and generating relevant traffic to your website.

The best article directories on the internet are:

1. ezinearticles.com - > Ezine Articles
2. articlebase.com -> Article Base
3. articlesnatch.com -> Article Snatch
4. ideamarketers.com -> Idea Marketers
5. articledashboard.com -> Article Dashboard
6. articlerich.com -> Article Rich
7. articleslash.net -> Article Slash
8. articlebliss.com -> Article Bliss
9. articlesfactory.com -> Articles Factory
10. articlesalley.com -> Articles Alley

UK article directories:-

1) openarticle.co.uk -> Open Article

Apr

2

Web design when the internet first took hold was a holistic affair with static websites, minimal interactivity, and no search engine strategy. It wasn’t necessary. Nowadays there are many businesses online and more are joining every day. To make your business stand out from the others you need a website that looks good, has a nice design, is easy to use. As well as great looking design it needs to be easy to maintain and update. A content management system (CMS) can sit behind your website and provide you with options to:

* Add more pages
* Add text and images
* File uploader for Acrobat PDF or other files
* Automatic menu creation
* Exclude pages from the menu
* Create links to other pages
* Easily change the menu order
* Breadcrumb trail - shows where you are in the website
* Secure admin panel
* Login from anywhere
* Strong SEO using friendly URLs
* Full meta tag management
* Site-wide search
* The site appears as HTML for full search engine compatibility
* Scalable, 5 to 5000 pages

Our CMS platform for Web Design Staffordshire is built upon PHP and MySQL, with a secure login area to be able to administer your website with new text, images, and pages. It is fully expandable as your business requires and we have developed many modules such as, multi-media, event diary, catalogues, galleries, ecommerce and many others. Feedback from our system is phenomenal and is something we are very proud of. Call Cybernautix for a free non-biased chat about how we can help you get a good website, beautiful design, and search engine optimised.

In business for over three years, they understand the needs of a good internet presence and also the need to be found at the top of the search engines. A good web design with placement of number 103 in Google is not going to provide decent traffic. Make sure your company understands the search engines before you commit your business to them.

Mar

1

Are you looking to enhance your web presence on the internet?

Fedup with being on page 4 or 5?

Most of the internet traffic is on page 1.

If you’re lower down then you’re not going to be catching any new leads.

Search Engine Optimistion is the process of getting your website to the top of the search engines.

How much extra business do you think you would get by being at the top?

How much could that extra business worth to you?

If the answer to this is … ‘I need to be there’ then SEO can get you there.

We have a strong history of delivering SEO that works. Through our main company, Cybernautix, we have worked with many high profile clients and achieved very impressive results.

To deliver an even greater service we’ve create SEO Staffordshire website. Our SEO department is busy with activity preparing new campaigns at affordable prices.

Nov

23

Search Engine Optimisation, shortened to SEO, is the process of getting your website to the top of the search engines.

Companies specialising in search engine rankings have been around for a while now and range from bargain budget to seriously expensive. So how do you find a good one?
In the next section I’ll give you the 6 top tips for finding one. There are companies out there that provide a less than adequate service whilst there are those that deliver results.

1) Be Wary of One-Trick Ponies

Ask for some live examples from their SEO portfolio. You can ask them, “show me some good results that you’ve had recently”. Most good companies will be able to show results from many different sectors. The ones that are focussed on one particular area, say trades, might have spent a lot of time honing their skills in that area and neglecting the big picture. We have heard a few horror stories of companies charging good money only for the client to be disappointed with SEO that didn’t work. So make sure you see a variety in their SEO portfolio so you know that they have a good, broad knowledge and experience.

2) Get me Google no1 – exercise caution

Everyone with a website wants to be Google no1 because it brings the most visitors. Followed by 2 and 3. The rest of page 1 are OK but below that they are not so much. Ask the company “can you get me to Google no1?”. If they say – of course, go with us and we’ll get you to no1 – then put the phone down and leave them be. Noone can guarantee a particular place in Google. Its ranking calculations are secret and constantly evolving. SEO Companies with confidence will say something like “We aim to get you to the top of Google, and our previous experience shows that we can get there. “. Those with just bravado will say “Sure. We get everyone to no1. Can I have your credit card?” – avoid these ones.

SEO has been compared to a black art, and that’s for 2 reasons, noone will know how Google will tweak their ranking calculations next. And the second reason is that SEO companies tend not to discuss their methods. Once you’ve hidden something from view then there’s an uncertainty of what’s going on. Maybe something, maybe nothing? Maybe they’re doing nothing. By asking for examples from a range of industry you can sort the good ones from the others.

3) Check behind the scenes

What you don’t see normally is how the company is run. Questions like – do they have CCJs or do they have debt problems might mean that they are poorly run or the directors are taking all the cash and leaving very little to work with so your money won’t do very much. You can use Credit Check systems to see these; not everyone will have access to them but small companies do usually so if you have someone who runs their own company ask them to do you a favour and have a quick look. You wouldn’t want the company going bust after you’ve paid up the cash and let’s face it - in today’s climate it’s certainly a possibility.

4) Don’t commit all

… your resources into a lengthy contract right at the start. Give the company a trial on 1 to 3 months. See how you get on with them? Do they start to produce results? Are they open with you about what they’re doing? The ones you want to avoid are the ones that mask this by saying “yeah we’re doing loads for you. It needs more time and money though. You’re not yet seeing results because it takes more than 3 months to do anything. You need to invest more.” This is rubbish! If you don’t see anything after 3 months then you need to ask yourself are they going to produce anything after another 3? And will they tell me what they’ve done?

5) Find who’s doing the work?

Subcontracting to India is very easy these days and we have heard of many SEO companies using Indian SEO. There’s nothing wrong at all but beware that they are cheaper than a typical UK operation. The SEO tends to be a lower quality too. So don’t pay top dollar for a company that uses Indian SEO. The premium end of the market is well planned and executed UK link building. We know because we have tried both and now only do UK building – the reason? The results are far better, in fact the results are leagues apart. It’s easy for us to get a page 1 ranking on highly competitive two-word keywords, for example. Also, ask for a report of the work done. Decent companies – for them this will be normal.

6) Phone a few others

It’s important to shop around on SEO. Sometimes you can pay too cheap and get something that doesn’t do the job and on the other hand you could pay a lot of money for something that is quite reachable. By talking to a few companies you’ll get a feeling of what you need to invest to reach the top. Ignore the ludicrously cheap ones, say SEO for £50/month. For £50 they aren’t going to be doing anything for you, perhaps developing a few links on a spammy website.

The best results in SEO will always be obtained by QUALITY work. SHOP AROUND. ASK QUESTIONS. CHECK WHAT THEY’RE DOING

Jul

16

We like the Wordpress platform very much and we’ve got a few marketing blogs dotted around the internet world - some with a very nice readership.

One blog in particular has got quite a few plugins and for a while now it’s been so slow that sometimes I thought it would time-out and give up. It never reached that stage but I could imagine it being a bit frustrating for visitors.

I already had a suspicion that the plugin WP-stats was a slow-down button yet it’s really useful for determining blog stats.

When I disabled WP-stats things went 10x quicker!

So now it’s off and I’ll need to find a way of counting clicks and tracking.

Here’s a link to the site -> www.ceramictiletools.co.uk .. it’s good now!

Apr

27

Dear All,

FREE SEO Tips and strategies? right here! read on …

We’ve (Cybernautix) started our own Twitter presence to give everyone FREE SEO Tips - that’s right - completely free. So if you want SEO tips that really do work view or follow us ->

http://twitter.com/f1seo

Nov

25

During the early hours of 25/11/2008 GMT there seems to be some kind of attack on the Digital Point Forums - one of the worlds biggest internet forums.

Apart from it bring unaccessible , when we did manage to get a page it was full of ‘This site almost down’ threads. And when you hovered over the threat title you get this message “I am not bad guy.Digital Point banned me few weeks ago. There were No reason.I did not spam or something bad. But they banned me. Digital Point forum must appoligise. IF THEY DO NOT APPOLIGISE%2C I WILL SHOW THE PEOPLE WHO I AM. I WILL DESTROY DIGITALPOINT FORUM. This forum banned alot of people….”

Click the screenshot to see :

Digital Point forums attack

Digital Point forums 2

It’s not clear from the outside whether the accessibility of the forum is connected to the messages but it seems like an awfully big coincidence.

We are avid fans of DP Forums and go there alot to research the latest internet marketing and SEO topics. However one user has taken a serious dislike to them by the looks of it.

Nov

16

Search engine optimisation, often a very secretive profession, has received little attention as far as University courses go. Most Pro SEOs research it all themselves in articles, forums, and blogs and try things out. These tend to be the most current sources of new SEO techniques.

Now, Rice University is offering an SEO course covering the basic principles, research, and link building - which covers solid ground that has been proven over the last few years.

Most SEO people will tell you that the key to success is understanding and researching your keywords. So don’t forget to use Google Adwords external research tool :)

link -> SEO Course at Rice University

It’s the first time we have seen an SEO course by a University and we applaud it and hope to see more of them. I’m sure if there’s a good take-up they’ll begin to roll it out.

May

22

So for your new exciting Gallery2 photo album how do you go about promoting it?

Finding links is a bit easier than normal and here’s a few pointers to get you started.

1) Gallery2 has it’s own showcase area:

http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery/demosites/

you will need to create an account first to be able to submit your site.

so go to http://gallery.menalto.com/user/register and register for an account. Then go to the demosites and fill in your gallery details.

2) Go to the Gallery2 forum

now that you have a login go to the forum and find the ones that’s called Gallery 2.x. In there you will see a thread called G2 Demo Sites.

!! Add your site to that thread

3) There’s an independent Directory of Gallery sites called G2-sites.com

go to G2-Sites.com

you will need to make an account, and also a screenshot of your gallery.

Submit your site

There you have it … 3 links for your new Gallery.

Let us know how you get on :)

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