Newbie on the Net Blog

Yikes it that the date? We whizzed through August without even mentioning the major Internet activity of the month - namely the 30 Day Challenge, which this year was not only the best ever but seriously innovative and now…
Now StomperNet are coming!
And you don't have to hide from the blizzard of frenzied emails promoting the […]

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When I asked someone to review a book of mine recently she came back and complained that I had not included information on using the right keyword density. I let it go. There is little point trying to point out the fallacy of this superstition without getting into a whole production.
But Dan Theis he has […]

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Make your Google results stand out
The Meta description tag is a matter of some dispute. Jon Leger puts the record straight and gives some examples of what to do and what not to do.
Essential reading and action for every page on your site

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Matt Cutts praises WordPress SEO benefits « Mark on WordPress

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One of the things I like about Jon Leger is his independent mind. There is a pile of “SEO superstition” around and it is hard sometimes to know who to believe. Ever since Blogger invented “no follow” on comments-to prevent junk or spam comments, there has been much confusion about the value of posting.
On the […]

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Adding to the Link info on yesterday’s post.
Link Building Basics: Why your link strategy sucks
Very thoughtfull and challenging piece-level headed and provocative at the same time!
My style exactly!
I have added his link to the SEO  section on the Righr Hand Menu inder “How Not To Link”

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Superb easy to understand post
John Scott on Link Building
 

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Just a quick note. The Spring Cleaning yesterday was focussed on tuning the main title tags and a little on H1 tags and body copy. Well as Brad Fallon says in “Stomping The Search Engines”, but which I had difficulty believing, the title tag is major-which I believed-and responds fast to editing, which I thought […]

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A day spent “Spring cleaning” Newbie. Alice Seba’s course has been really extensive. Much deeper effect than I would have judged from the outset.
Tidying all or rather some of the oddities left by the webtech and sprucing up the appearance have left me feeling much happier with the site. Just hope I haven’t left a […]

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This may sound baffling to beginners while to others it might be like being asked when you last washed behind your ears. But clean simple HTML is crucial to the operation of your website and to it being indexed. Newbie On The Net had zero PageRank for a year seemingly because the HTML editor I […]

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Years ago when I built my first website I was excited just to create something worthwhile and get it onto the web. This was in the days before Google and Search Engines and I had no notion of marketing the website at all
Website software has changed a lot since then. But the task of […]

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