Cross post your content and keep Mr SEO happy
Do you cross post content? By this I mean you write content on site A and you word-for-word copy it to another site where you are also present… I’m going to confess that I have only just found out that this is a bad idea and will damage your search engine visibility. Here’s why:
a) Search engines are programmed to dislike duplicate content.
b) You are creating unnecessary competition with yourself. Potential visitors will have to make a choice on link they find, and they’ll most likely select the one higher up the search results. So if you added a personal blog to a community of blogs, the community blog will probably be higher up on the search results and therefore winning the visitor’s click.
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Interesting Windows Phone review in Guar
Interesting Windows Phone review in Guardian. After trying it on an HTC + a BBerry, if iPhone was a man, I’d marry him http://ow.ly/8ey4u
Square your QR code
Cross posting from ZN.beAt a recent event, I was delighted to see most of the exhibitors had QR codes on their display posters. A what I hear you cry?! A QR code or Quick Response code is this strange square image on the left here. QR codes are two-dimensional bar codes, which can hold way more information than a standard bar code. You can scan them with an app on your smart phone. I use i-nigma, a free one I found on the App Store.
So of course with phone in hand, I had a go. Admittedly I’m a bit of a geek, so I found it really exciting to scan a code and see where it would take me. The exhibitor’s chose to direct traffic to their websites, rather than invest in dedicated landing pages. This is totally understandable because QR codes are a bit ahead of the curve in Brussels and not many people will know what to do with them. However it got my mind racing. So here’s my two cents worth on what you could do with this kind of technology.
Doh! messed up my blog layout
Apologies if you come to this blog and you don’t see any info about the author… I’ve messed up the layout (again). I’m Helen Dunnett, you can find me on Twitter @hdunnett and LinkedIn /helendunnett
Frustrated with socialist Europe
Can’t help laughing to myself, or more like laughing at myself these days at my blind naivety and detachment from reality… the good news is that the reality has been well and truly rammed in my face this week.
For one client, over the past couple of years I’ve been learning and writing about the frustrations of European business start-ups who are held back by national and/or European legislation that prevents them from growing. I’ve listened as European-based start-ups have highlighted the big differences between the energy and flexibility of Silicon Valley compared to the risk-adverse, worker-centric Europe.
Those frustrations have all been quite theoretical to me, until now. Now I want to grow a business idea. I don’t know if it’s going to work, but I’m prepared to give it go. I’ve decided to invest in some extra help as I’m already pretty busy, and “Halleluiah!” Read the rest of this entry »
My day job is full of content
You know what? I spend a lot of time writing these days. Who would guess looking at my blog, and what’s more, I have found out that I love writing (blogs). Only wish the blogging-style had been recognized xxx years ago when I was taking my English language exams. Yet you don’t see this Learning Curve blog being refreshed with new content much. And I can tell you for free that my blog has zero SEO credibility. So what’s happening?
The key to search engine optimization (SEO) success
Which every way you approach search engine optimization (SEO) to increase your longterm position in Google, I believe it finally boils down to one thing – you need to publish a regular amount of good quality content that is relevant to your target audience.
You can waste money rebuilding your website every two years and simply reposition the same old boring content, I know many who do.
