The lies some SEO’s tell prospective clients.

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Been doing a little research today, having a look at what it would take to rank for the term Search Engine Optimisation Australia.

The main thing I’ve discovered is that some SEO companies either have no idea, or they are telling their prospective clients outright lies.

Let’s take a look at what the company which ranked number two in google for the above term were telling people who find their site:

Meta Tags are one of the most important factors of onpage search engine optimization. The better you define your Meta Tags, the better your search engine ranking will be. Meta Tags are lines of the html(website) which provides information about a particular web page. Meta Tags play a key role in the optimisation process. Using optimised content and Meta tagging along with other internet marketing strategies you can shoot your site up to the top of all search page listings.

And some more:

Using Search Engine Submission, the optimised web pages in your website are submitted to leading search engines, web directories and categories in such a way that they are prioritized for top placements and positioning.

Oh dear….

Check whether multiple sites are up or down

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I threw up a little script the other day which checks a given URL, and tells you whether it’s up or down.

I’m actually using the script to check multiple sites, all in one job, and I thought I’d post it here in case any of you might find it useful.

Throw a text file called urls.txt with your URL’s in it in the same folder as the script, and run the script.

Here’tis:

<?

$filename = ‘urls.txt’;

$fp = @fopen($filename, ‘r’);

if ($fp) {

$array = explode(”\n”, fread($fp, filesize($filename)));

foreach ($array as $url) {
$url = str_replace(”http://”, “”, $url);

$url = str_replace(”http://www.”, “”, $url);

$url1=’http://www.’ .$url;

$url2=’http://’ .$url;

@$results = get_headers($url1, 1);

if (strstr($results[0], ‘200′))

{

$status = “Rockin!”;

}

else

@$results = get_headers($url2, 1);

if (strstr($results[0], ‘200′))

{

$status = “Rockin!”;

}

else

{

$status = “Borked”;

}

echo $url. ‘ is ‘ .$status. ‘<br>’;

}

}

?>

S is for……….

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Hands up those who said S is for Sex?

Dirty bastards!

Quick SEO tip - use plurals of your keywords when writing web copy.

Let’s take the example of the keyterm Pasta Makers (one of the terms we’re targeting for our Niche site giveaway competition)

If you have the term Pasta Maker in your page copy, you have a chance to rank for the term Pasta Maker, but if you have the Term Pasta Makers, you can rank for both the terms Pasta Maker, and Pasta Makers.

Pasta Makers contains the term Pasta Maker, so you can rank for it, Pasta Maker, on the other hand, does not contain the term Pasta Makers, so you can’t.

Pretty simple really, just drop an instance or two of the plural for your main keyword, and double your chances of picking up some extra search traffic.