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    SEO peer review - good or could do better? 

    by
    Alex997
    Published on 01-17-2012 12:28 PM  Number of Views: 36 
    Categories:
    1. SEO

    I have been learning SEO since about October last year, and at that point our Accountancy website was on about page 10+ of Google results for keywords.

    I spent 3 months optimizing the on-page SEO of the site (part-time as this is not my day job), and also added a blog section and social share buttons to the site. New quality blogs every 3 or 4 days. Added Facebook and Google+ sites. Plugged everything into Google/Bing webmasters, and Google Analytics.

    Since Christmas I started on back-linking. Mostly directory (targeting about 5 keyword phrases), some commenting on other blogs - no reciprocal or paid links.

    Anyway, at Christmas to keep track of the directories submission I also started recording SERPs stats in Excel. These are the results to date across 12 generic keyword phrases (pretty much every possibility to find a local accountant), none including our company name:

    27-Dec-11 | Average SERPs 7.62 | Google external links 1006 | best keywords position #2
    13-Jan-12 | Average SERPs 7.15 | Google external links 1867 | best keywords position #2
    14-Jan-12 | Average SERPs 5.08 | Google external links 1867 | 2 keywords at position #1
    17-Jan-12 | Average SERPs 4.23 | Google external links 1867 | 3 keywords at position #1, 3 keywords at position #2 ie. top 6 keywords all in top 2.

    So given the jump after the 13th (and ongoing) and the number of Google registered back-links not changing, what do you think has caused this jump, me or Google itself?

    The competition is a few hundred other accountants in our city/area with the highest competitor mozRank only 5 (we are currently at 4 but that may be a little out of date). So what do you think, is this good progress or would a big SEO company do a lot better?

    You can join the discussions here

    How to customise WordPress Twenty Eleven image header 

    by
    temi
    Published on 01-02-2012 04:33 PM  Number of Views: 130 
    Categories:
    1. Educational Series


    WordPress Twenty Eleven template is one of the most popular WordPress theme ever. One of what makes it so popular is the fact that it is extremely easy to customise and the beautiful pictures used on the header.
    If you install the nice WP template on your WordPress powered blog, just a few clicks of the mouse can help you transform it by replacing the default images that come with the template out of the box to a unique images of your choice. One of our members has written a nice tutorial that show you how to make this customisation in no time..

    To read the tutorial on how to customise WordPress Twenty Eleven template, please click here.

    Contribute to our Webmaster Educational Series and Showcase your talent 

    by
    temi
    Published on 12-26-2011 08:10 PM     Number of Views: 149 
    Categories:
    1. Forum

    Contribute to our Webmaster Educational Series and Showcase your talent


    Do you have in-depth knowledge of an aspect of Webmastering, it could be search engine optimisation (SEO), it could be be hosting, domain name registration or domain flipping.
    It could even be web design, web development or links buying and selling. We are looking for articles to develop our webmaster knowledge base articles and tutorials. Write us an original unique article and it will be featured on our homepage for a while and then move to the educational series sub forum.

    You article or tutorial should be about 500 words, preferably with image or other illustrations (if you don't have images, we can provide it).

    What is in it for me?
    You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the aspect of webmastering you choose to tackle to the whole of the webmaster community, you also get to add a link to any site you choose in the authors bio section of the article.

    To find out more about this, please use the contact form found here.

    Webmaster Educational Series: Creating Flash AS2, Jumping Images Header 

    by
    dsf
    Published on 12-12-2011 08:18 PM  Number of Views: 280 

    Learn to Create Flash Header with this superb tutorial

    To get started you need to have several images already manipulated with your favourite graphic manipulation software such as photoshop, the images should look something like this:


    Attachment 610

    ... mainly they are transparent png files.

    The next part would be to place the newly created images into "./flash/img" folder, or create another folder of your choise yet this will require some path changes on the xml also.
    Once the images are in place all that is left is to fill the xml file at "./flash/xml.xml" with the exact images names choosen:

    <image>
    <pic>flash/img/player_reflected1.png</pic>
    </image>
    <image>
    <pic>flash/img/player_reflected2.png</pic>
    </image>
    <image>
    <pic>flash/img/player_reflected3.png</pic>
    </image>

    ... here, where it says "player_reflected1.png" and the rest just replace with own images names, also if you've changed the image folder name do not forget to fill it also.

    Optionaly one could do further customisation inside the flash itself yet this part is not a must.
    Iniside the flash Library there are 3 main images (.png) that are used to mask the end (left and right edges):
    bk_left.png, bk_right.png, bk_right_perspective.png

    You can find the full creating flash header tutorial here

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