SEO Seminar at RMT by Silverbean

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I attended the SEO seminar by Silverbean this afternoon... It was at the RMT (the accountants) offices. It was pretty good, and did go into some detail about keyword densities and anchor text. But of course it wasn't as technical as it might have been (they do have a service to sell). Learn't some useful stuff about the layout and copy needed for good landing pages. I'm also going to sign up for … [Read more...]

Ooops I broke my WordPress RSS feed

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I had edited the functions.php file to add a 'read-more' link to the end of post snippets instead of the [...] text. Inadvertently I had added a newline outside of the php closing tag at the end of the file. As this file is included when rendering RSS feeds it created a blank line before the opening RSS tag - and any whitespace before the opening tag renders the XML document invalid... doh. … [Read more...]

Cobbles visible on Eilansgate – Hexham

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Nice to see. And they don't look half as rough on the tyres compared to the old patch-ridden surface. It'll be a shame to cover them up with tarmac again. It looks like the council hasn't taken the opportunity to widen the woefully narrow footpath though.... And the primary school tries to promote walking to school  (this is our route). It's barely wide enough for a pram and is a popular lorry … [Read more...]

Custom Magento Canonical Tags

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I've just done some modifications to a magento install which I administer to allow custom canonical tags to be specified in the "Custom Layout Update" field of product items and categories. Magento is notoriously bad for url canonicalisation out of the box, as it generates at least 4 urls for each product, all with almost identical content. So I copied head.php from … [Read more...]

GMail offers per-address rich-text signatures

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This has been long awaited and is is a much appreciated addition to the gmail service. If you use GMail check out your settings page. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7881493/Google-adds-rich-text-signatures-to-Gmail.html … [Read more...]

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