seo web design

For a while now on one of my sites it looked as though google was ignoring my robots.txt file.
I say this because a directory I specifically put in my “disallow” comments was indexed in google. I didn’t really think anything of it except “stupid google” because it wasn’t affecting anything.
Now, on one of the pages […]

There’s even more and more sites selling pre-written articles for the lazy and uninitiated.
The problems with us humans is that we are inherently lazy and want instant results. So as life moves on we all know that the search engines just love large sites. Not only that of course, but if you have 100,000 pages […]

Many sites use javascript - a neccessity of today’s world.
But a lot of webdesigners simply add all the javascript code into each webpage. Now this is not such a bad thing it’s just that the search engines spiders want to see your text of your page so they can decide what to do with it […]

There are many templates for sale on the web these days for really excellent prices.
Most will look excellent and have a nice little flash movie as well as pretty pictures and sound.
This is all well and good but just have a look at the code. Most these days are still not developed in css (so […]

Back to webdesigners and I suppose folks who don’t undertake SEO for a living.
Some sites are just images - real images rather than flash pages.
Images are great - they can often portray much more than words on a web site and portray a professional organization.
The trouble with search engines is that they are machines. They […]

So you go off to a great webdesigner to get your web designed.
Back comes a wonderful looking website that you admire and your customers think it excellent. Nice colours, great graphics and an easy way to pay.
But you don’t get the top search engine rankings you are looking for
Why?
Well most web designers are looking after […]

Hi and welcome to seo services direct
The aim of this site is to give you an insight into search engine optimization (SEO) and what works and what doesn’t
You can undertake search engine optimization yourself and the aim is to get your website higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs) in all the main search […]